A cup of tea full of everything: Gingerbread Cream Tea - LE ... From SBS Teas...
"We didn't think it was possible to improve on the perfection of last year's Gingerbread tea, but the tea Genie has outdone herself again. Gets the blood moving to keep you moving. Warms from the center of your being; ginger and spice with a smooth creamy note. Perfect alone or pop those flavors with some cream and sugar! If you love our other holiday teas, you will find this yet another you must have in your tea repertoire!
This is a LE-Limited Edition Tea only available through the holidays, be sure to stock up on yours today!"
"There must be more to life than having everything."
Maurice Sendak
There must be more to life... Indeed.
As I sit in my little cottage, birds chirping, singing, and talking all around me, a dog at my side, and holding a doll in my hands that I am making, my steaming cup of tea beside me, I think, in an inside out version of Sendak's quote, that the reason I am so happy and at peace here is that I don't have "everything" in the world's terms. I have a darling little 12 year old mini-mini van that is a very peculiar shade of green that's bleached out by the sun and whose paint job is going funky with a license plate that says WABISABI, and I love that little PeaMobile with all my heart. My vehicle is wabi sabi as surely my whole life is, and coming to terms with all of that, all of ME, all of my life, is worth more than gold. And I wonder, I truly wonder, if the wealthy who do have everything are ever as happy as I am with a grey parrot singing and talking and a soft velvet nose resting on my toes as I have my cup of tea...
A couple of nights ago I had the most wonderful soothing tea, the Gingerbread Cream, Limited Edition mentioned above. It was like comfort in a cup. It spoke of holidays and gingerbread boys with icing on the top. It spoke of roaring fires in a fireplace with snow falling softly outside the frosty windowpanes, it spoke of sugar and spice and everything nice with a dollop of cream to boot! This is a comfort tea. It has everything.
And so I sit, as I type this, with Henry, my grey parrot, on my forearm, bobbing up and down with the movement of my typing, and I lean down and give him a kiss on the beak and smile at this darling bird, my soul mate, and I want to make more of this divine tea right now. I wish I had some gingerbread cookies to go with it, happy little boys with icing faces. This tea brings me joy and the delight of walking into a house where warm gingerbread cookies are cooling on a rack and the whole house is redolent of fragrant spices. It is the simple pleasures, after all, that bring the most contentment, and an inner peace
Look for joy in the simple things in life. Realize that you have everything there is to have in this very moment and appreciate it all. Look into your cup of tea and realize that we have everything in each and every moment that we need, if only we have eyes to see. Tomorrow we may have more and that will be perfect too. But for today we have our tea, perhaps a parrot on our shoulder, a dog at our side, and I can't imagine wanting anything more.
Blessings to each and every one of you as the holiday season approaches, and always...
Maitri
