by markhamsindeband | Mar 20, 2019 | #tea, #zen, Spring Tea, WuLong
Tea that ‘sparks joy’, to borrow a phrase from Marie Kondo, is about as concise a metric one can use to determine if the tea they’re drinking is really right for them. Personally speaking, the kind of tea which after a few cups assuages physical and emotional pain,...
by markhamsindeband | May 8, 2018 | Spring Tea
During April, which many of you know, is the usual spring tea harvesting month here in the north of Taiwan, it rained just nine days, for a total of about two and a half inches. This, compared to double that for rainfall last year. Even then, due to a somewhat...
by markhamsindeband | May 15, 2017 | #tea
If you have an interest in tea culture and high-quality tea, the questions of where and how your tea is made are probably important to you. Taken as a whole, of course your tea’s supply chain can tell you much about its quality. The history and culture of where...
by markhamsindeband | May 4, 2017 | Green Tea
The following post is meant to answer a question often asked of ‘Leaf of the East’, as to just how it is different from other tea companies in the market today. I’ll begin with a couple of quotes, “The map is not the territory” –...
by markhamsindeband | Jun 15, 2016 | pottery
寶島, BaoDao, Treasure Island, is where I first met Evan Shaw, more than thirty years after he’d left the United States to study meditation in India. In 1974, one could still travel from Western Europe through Iran into the Middle East to the Far East without...
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