New Cup For Tea

I was out, what I like to call "bummin", at random rummages found while aimlessly driving around with my caring mother and darling son today. Did not have any destination or goal in my to mind other than to be in the moment of life and enjoying those close to me. I came upon this beautiful big blue tea cup.



This tea cup not only called to me but I also felt this immediate magnetism towards the cup in the moment I saw it. It was not part of a set but just there by itself. Now this tea cup is not your average size tea cup but fits a few more ounces of delicious steeped earthen goodness. I simply fell in love the instant we met and I can foresee this blue vessel sometimes being filled with soups made from the crock pot come fall.

The following quotes were collected in honor of my new cup:

Tea is a cup of life. ~Author Unknown

Tea should be taken in solitude. ~C.S. Lewis

If man has no tea in him, he is incapable of understanding truth and beauty.
~Japanese Proverb

Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. ~Thich Nat Hahn

The first cup moistens my lips and throat. The second cup breaks my loneliness. The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs. The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration - all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores. At the fifth cup I am purified. The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals. The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves. Where is Elysium? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither. ~Lu Tung,

Tea is liquid wisdom. ~Anonymous

Each cup of tea represents an imaginary voyage. ~Catherine Douzel

Tea is drunk to forget the din of the world. ~T'ien Yiheng

"Tea-Drinking"
tea leaves
tea loves
loves tea
lives tea
leaves tea?
never.
~Uniek Swain

Think women have achieved equality? Think again.

Posted on November 22, 2005 by tekanji

Gender Roles
1. Men are the default and women are the Other (and therefore lesser).
2. Being called “girly” or a “sissy” or “pussy” are some of the worst insults you can give a man.
3. When a woman shows confidence in herself, she is said to “have balls”, or conversely she is a “man-eater”, “ball-buster”, or a “bitch” because she was “too” assertive.
4. Men are beat up, ridiculed, or made fun of for being “effeminate” and women are beat up, ridiculed, or made fun of for being “masculine”.
5. Many people get angry when a woman questions the intentions behind a “chivalrous” act from a man.
6. There are men who refuse “chivalrous” acts from a woman, such as refusing to walk through a door that a woman holds open for them, while believing that it is rude for a woman to exercise the same right to refuse.
7. Women can’t express anger without the very real fear of being accused of “hysterics” or being “shrill”.
8. Women get scolded for “un-ladylike” behaviour: using coarse language, talking frankly about sex or other “impolite” topics, confidently voicing one’s dissenting opinion, etc.
9. People continue to believe and perpetuate gender essentialism based on bad science or using actual studies to “prove” the innateness of gender roles when the study itself supports no such thing.

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