My favorite .. my early morning drink …. TEA!!
She is making a pot of tea and I am clearing plates from the table. We both step around the room, around the dog, around the circular table, around each other, by instinct. I could navigate this space with my eyes closed, if called upon to do so. From down the corridor, the voices of my children, playing with the array of toys my mother keeps in her cupboards, can be heard, rising and falling, exclaiming and negotiating. Tea-making is a sacred, circumscribed ritual in this house. I would never presume to undertake it, would never encroach on this most delicate of tasks. There are several steps that must be followed, one leading mysteriously from the next: I can never quite remember the sequence, have always been too impatient to learn, unlike my sisters, who enact the same ritual in the same way in their own kitchens. The correct pot…
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It Is What It Is 
Sounds wonderful, but who has the time?
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I do, every morning, rather than coffee!! LOL …
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I am on the verge of giving up coffee….raises my BP. And I do like herbal teas. I smell a new habit brewing.
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