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more drink metaphors
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Britton Gildersleeve
When’s the last time you gave yourself a present? Not something you ‘need,’ or even something you lust for (like a new pair of shoes, or a fountain pen, or…). Just a small treat. Not even edible, necesarily. 🙂 This holiday, we bought my nephew a tea he likes, courtesy of his sister’s suggestion. I…
tea with Grandmother (and others)
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Britton Gildersleeve
Tea is a friendly drink. It doesn’t jazz you like coffee. I can have it in the afternoon, for instance, and still sleep that night. 🙂 And if — like me — you’ve collected/ inherited/ been given tea wares for many years, it becomes a kind of time travel, as well. And today it was…
tea with plastic spoons…
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Britton Gildersleeve
Today I made my tea in a mug, on a cutting board, with a plastic spoon. Big deal, huh? Unless you know me, and know that almost every day I make tea in a pot, on a tray spread w/ one of the many tea cloths I have, and drink it from a china cup and…
tea and sympathy
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Britton Gildersleeve
This has NOT been a good week. It’s gone steadily downhill since Monday… 🙁 But it’s taken a turn for the better, and it’s all because I did a shamefully easy good deed: I lent 1/4 jar of molasses to my next-door neighbour. Laura was making her beloved sister’s recipe of iced ginger cookies, and…
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