tea-related art exhibit in DC

My local tea shoppe is showing the Meaning Of Tea today. You can tell it is New Age crap. The only reason Im going is because I dont drink water.

Jim

"The film presents a seamless world-view > In case anyone is in the DC area and interested, there is a small

My review. Doesnt the FBI warning I saw mention something about not for commercial use unless scones and tea are excluded. I only watch the premium movie channels on satellite. The music from each country was decent. The tabla and sitar had a nice Shankar like rhythm. I forget the name of the Chinese 4 string instrument accompanied by other instruments. Demur ladies playing for a guy in a white robe as he drinks tea and contemplates. I probably would have bought the sound track but none for sale. I learned more about Darjeeling tea estates than watching the Express. Gorgeous mountain valley views with the tea terrace growing almost vertical up the side of a mountain accessed from a narrow foot path and a ladder. Scary. Factories still run by British steam engines from the 1900s. Everything hand processed like whithering vats till reduction in leaf grade. I have a new appreciation for Indian tea. Sociology monks begging for tea. Science youd live longer on a desert island with water and tea than water alone. History Morocco use to drink coffee till the British introduced tea in 1900. As one tea stand mentioned if tea doesnt foam it isnt any good. Dont worry that is a chemical reaction with the mint and sugar (I assume). A master potter in China will make you a pot for every tea you drink. I dont think he is cheap. Anybody and everybody in every tea consuming country got to talk about the tranquility and inner peace of making tea. James Norwood Pratt got to speak for the West. The guy is from another planet. The British owner mentioned from the start he wished the guy would shut up. Buddha woke up from enlightenment laughed and had a cup of tea. Somebody said you would have to make mindful cups of tea for 20 years before entering this state. I agree. A Taiwan tea grower said in a lifetime you might taste a tea that shakes you to the core. He can count on one hand the number of times it happened to him. That happened to me recently. I dont wont to drink it again for fear of breaking the spell. Nobody knows if the old ways of thinking about tea can survive. Boba saved the Taiwan tea industry from collapse. I exaggerate. Juveniles in shoppes have tapioca spitball fights. I kid you not. Thirty something Japanese have never tasted tea. Their industry admits they have a problem. Silver tea pots in Britain are no longer affordable. Porcelain wont do. Tea,SD has a Sunday afternoon tea for tourists. Its not that far from here.

Jim

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