Tea-stemming emotions

Drinking tea relaxes me, not only my body but my emotions. The only thing it doesn’t relax is my bladdar dang it LOL.

Best cup of tea I EVER had…couldn’t tell you the variety to save my life…was the first one I had following a wicked ice storm a couple Decembers ago. After a week of sub-freezing temps, no heat, no hot food, lack of sleep from cold and stress, the power came back on on a Sunday afternoon, I turned on the TV loud (Scrooge; the Albert Finney musical), luxuriated in the light of the Christmas tree, grinned ear-to-ear listening to the dryer run, and drank my first hot cuppa in days. All was right with the world.

I used to make a sun tea concoction when I was in Iraq. My wife would send me some fruit tea in the mail; it would get there about a month later. I would put about 5 teabags into a 1.5 liter bottle that I would strap down to the roof of my vehicle in the morning. I would leave it there to brew in the sun all day long. Come nightfall, I would remove the teabags and let it cool throughout the night.

In the morning, I would a strong and flavorful bottle of usually really cool tea to guzzle down in the morning. When compared to plain, sun-warmed water and bland military rations that tea was strong, bold and exciting. Sometimes it just reminded me of all the wonderful flavors that I was missing at home, other times the strength of the flavors and the coolness of the drink would just invigorate me for the day’s patrols.

Pete @
leafbox tea

Tea is comforting, exciting, relaxing. It reminds me of many places, people, events, usually happpy ones, either by taste or scent.