Taking a bowl of green tea in your hands and drinking it, you feel one with nature and there is peace. This peace can be spread by offering a bowl of tea to another. I hope you will drink and share this peace with me.
-Soshitsu Sen XV, Tea Life, Tea Mind
Many times, I have been [...]
Design, aesthetics, and visual appeal are important aspects of creating an exceptional shopping experience for consumers visiting a website. The look and feel of a company’s site speaks to who they are as a brand, and what type of customer they want to attract.
Of course, we all know beauty is only skin deep, so a [...]
The train from New Delhi to Amritsar clacked along the Indian countryside. From my second-class seat, I watched the bright saris of women in the gold-hued fields. The sunrise illuminated their silhouettes as the women tended the land, boiled water on makeshift stoves in their shanty houses, and bathed babies in buckets of mud-colored water.
I [...]
Today I am out on the edge of a rocky slope that overlooks a huge blue lake below and is covered in silvery
sagebrush, aspen trees whose heart-shaped leaves quake to expose their silver-sunned undersides, and various wildflowers (Arrowleaf Balsamroot, Yarrow, Lupine, and Rocky Mountain Phlox). I am on a quest to find juniper berries to [...]
Tea leaves
Tea loves
Loves tea
Lives tea
Leaves tea?
Never
- Uniek Swain
How can we love tea so much? Tea originated from China over 5,000 years ago when Shen Nongshi found tea accidentally after trying hundreds of wild plants. Most of us already know tea is healthy for the body. Gradually, we learn that tea is also healthy for the [...]
Queen Sherma of the Romany Gypsy Nation had just invited me to Rishikesh to work with her and our people on handicrafts to sell in the U.S. My mind soared with the possibilities. She gave me her contact information and was gone, but not before I noticed many details about her, studying her quickly and [...]
Lately I’ve been blessed to explore some western landscape. Traveling through northwest Utah, one is witness to huge expanses of rock, very vertical as well as intricately layered horizontally. From the valley, one also sees vertical forests of pine, and in the distance, more hills and snow-capped mountains just below the clouds. Even places most [...]
A trip to the Dobra tea house has a way of gathering all the elements of the day and making them a part of the tea-drinking experience. We drink beverages distractedly throughout our multi-tasking lives all the time, but a tea house makes the beverage central. The tea bowls placed in the center of the [...]
Can you believe it? Sipping tea with thousands of others just like you – could anything be better? And it’s virtual! Well, sort of – it’s real, too. For those of you lost in the dark ages – you know, before social media - tea has a huge presence on Facebook. If you are at [...]
A traditional method of brewing tea in China known as the gong fu style shares its name with a well-known martial art. Gong fu is kung fu, with just a different Roman phonetic spelling, which translates to “with skill” or “with practice”. This is a major point people in the West overlook - we do [...]
