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Art, Honey, Computers, Tea, Food, Music, and Film. I will check out the podcast later today.

I was actually snagged by the last bit of your post and I instantly drew a connection with the concept of "Mindfulness" as in the Buddhist/ Thich Nhat Hahn way. Tea is something that is both easy and very complex to be mindful about from start to finish and I think that is the actual allure in a world where almost everything else is impossible to be mindful of no matter your desire to. For instance during my commute this morning I was thinking just how impossible it is to be a "mindful" driver. Things pass by far too fast and it requires so much concentration and also so much distraction that I personally believe The Buddha himself could not achieve it. This then got me to think about how much this spills over into other areas of modern life like film. At ~30 frames per second and with so much happening at once it is hard to mindfully watch most movies, you are always missing subtlety or not able to appreciate it all in many ways. Most everything today has this harried pace and "multitasking" which destroys the ability for mindfulness and peace and some sense of tranquility. Tea breaks this mold. I think it is why, at the root of it, most of us are here and do what we do... and for that matter become "snobs" in any area. It is an area that we can enter that mindful state to some degree.

Just my humble opinion, but something I had been working on in my mind this morning and then of all things this post touched on it and broke it free of the solitary confines of my head.

- Dominic