Tea, How should it be taken? How should it be prepared? Well, just how one likes it, like one needs it, without rules or guilt. It's the same way one should live one's life.
I remember when I was little, my dad drank tea every morning, I loved watching how he prepared it and I enjoyed how the smell that was carried away in the kitchen.
Fast forward some years, after I got married, I lived in England for ten years, two of my three children were born there, and there I fell in love with tea again.
With so many cloudy days, I would feel sad and blue, but tea really helped me, making not just my body but also my soul feel warm and nice.
Black tea or as they call it "English Breakfast" is great in the afternoons, after you brew it, you have to add sugar and milk, if you don’t, it just not the same. And the “biscuits” that go with it should not be missed.
The Japanese are very meticulous and enjoy the little details in life, like origami or the tea ceremony.
Like the Japanese, I love tea, and gadgets, boxes, bags and so much more.
I prepare my green tea, which I drink every day, after my lemon juice with warm water and my celery juice to cleanse the kidneys.
While I'm drinking my green tea that I drink in a thermo, Japanese, of course, I prepare two or three teapots with tea: One day it's black tea, another day it’s ginger, another it’s lemon tea, or rose petals, or many others. I pour the teas in three of my many thermos so I have my warm tea, to drink at home or if I go out, carry in my car and feel happy, feeling the company of my warm teas in the winter and cold teas in the summer.
I have six or seven teapots, most of them medium sized, to make a good cup of tea. And some bigger teapots, for when my friends or family come for tea.
I have many teas, I would be a teaholic, if that addiction existed, in addition to being chocoholic, yes, I am one and accept it with a lot of devotion.
I keep my favorite teas in a large, beautiful wooden box that I bought on Piccadilly Street in London, it holds many teas and I almost always organize them the same way. The others I keep in the kitchen cupboard, I don't know if they are eager for me to choose them, but they know they will have their turn.
At night I almost always have a lavender tea with chamomile, which now my husband likes as well. I prepare it in a large mug, one that I also bought in London, in “Whittard”, the very nice shop, specialized in teas. After making my tea, I wait until it is warm and changes color, while I get ready to sleep. And once it's warm, I take it slowly, enjoying its smell.
The tea has herbs, or flowers or spices and water, full of life and fluidity. So simple, so beautiful, as everything in this life should be. The sun, the air, the water, the earth all as a team, in perfect synchrony, create wonders, which we often forget to thank, like tea. So, Thank you tea.