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