07.21.08
tea + (-tech3x) = bliss!
posted by T Ching | 5 comments
No need to allow the high price of fuel to keep you from having a wonderful and restful holiday! Just follow the simple steps given below and you can have a stellar vacation without driving even 25 miles! It’s simple and inexpensive. Remember this rule: lots of tea + little to no technology = vacation bliss.
Tea will be easy and lovely compared to the technology TKO we are about to propose - and we must be
absolutely clear on the technology: give yourself the gift of a Twilight Zone existence and turn off the cell phone; the computer; and the television. Unplug if necessary. Post a sign, “Out of order.” Lose iPods, iPhones, and hand held video games. Call the post office and suspend mail delivery.
How will you manage the withdrawal? Easy! Go shopping at your locally owned hardware store or market. If you do not own dominoes, yahtzee, parcheesi, or scrabble games - you need to purchase at least two of these. Do not spend more than $20.00. Next, visit your local library and check out at least four books. Make sure one of these is a mindless mystery and that at least one of the others is the wonderful The Ancient Tea Horse Road by Jeff Fuchs.
Let your conscience be a hundred miles away when you get those guilty thoughts urging you to clean the venetian blinds or to do battle with dust bunnies. Put your feet up and read! Once per day you may turn on the cell phone . . . to call the pizza delivery kid. Take walks in the neighborhood, explore the parks in your area, play yahtzee late at night. Learn two domino games. Drink lots of tea. Treat yourself to some new varieties. Take time and care preparing tea for your vacation enjoyment. Invite the children or grandchildren to join you for a cup - they might show you some mercy at Dominoes.
At the end of a week or two or three, slowly re-merge into the world of fast news and fast messages. You’ll be recharged!
July 21st, 2008 at 11:41 am
A few years before we relocated to the pacific northwest, Sandy and I brought an old farm up state New York. We drove out there every other week-end, regardless of rain or snow. It was our haven. No T.V. no computer, NO technology. Evening activities were either star gazing or enjoying a camp fire, with board games in case of rain or inclement weather. Tea was always present, at home or in the woods. We did have a modest stereo so music was frequently enjoyed. It was the best thing that we ever did. During the day, nature became our playground with endless exploration and adventures each day. We really were “recharged” each sunday.
July 22nd, 2008 at 12:50 am
…who ever posted this is awesome… kudos…
July 22nd, 2008 at 1:34 am
Man, that pizza looks really good!
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm
Sign me up!! I think I heard Stephen Cobert refer to this as a staycation or holistay - joking that we’d all need to create our vacations at home this summer (out of necessity) due to the high price of gas. But whatever the reason, it can really feel like a holiday when you alter your daily routine (or rather rut-tine). And even better when you add reading time, board games, and tea! I’m in!!
July 25th, 2008 at 1:34 am
We are having to work 6 days a week by ourselves getting a store up and running right now and just have time to get home, make dinner and take a walk, maybe 1/2 hr. of Food Channel and then to bed and start it all over again. So, we are doing things like (most money goes to the business right now) treating ourselves to a SLICE of the best pizza we’ve ever had at a shop here in town on Sat. night (our day off is Sunday), and even a hot shower seems special when you just stand for awhile and breathe deeply. The bed feels so comfortable, you notice little things when you can’t afford the time or budget to ‘goof off’.