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 14 kislev 5781

 

i am going to start a tea blog. 

 

i don’t think i deserve to (it wont take you long to learn of my booming self esteem—- self esteem which only increases as the amount of daylight i get decreases. daylight that only comes in rain scattered sprinkles this time of the year in the pacific northwest). 

 

i am not a tea expert. i do not know Chinese. i am not rich and i cannot afford high end and rare teas. 

 

what i am is someone who loves tea. that is one reason i am writing this. i am also a nerd. i am a plant nerd and i am a word nerd. i have a handful of story projects im working on but those juices just aren’t flowing right now and i really miss writing. i need something more to do in the winter than read, drink  tea, and mope. i want to use this blog to help me learn form the teas i drink. yes, i am utilitarian to a fault sometimes, but i swear i am a sappy romantic who watches lots of romcoms and likes cheesy dates. 

 

a big reason i am writing this is that there is the tiniest tiniest tiniest chance i will get free tea samples. please send me free tea!!! i am a cheap bitch…

 

i am still new to the world of fine tea. i wont be writing about anything fancy. i have never been to China and i have very little first hand experience in Chinese culture or tea culture.  

 

so why should someone bother reading this blog? after all, does the world want another queer, free jazz loving, sarcastic, jewish, millennial tea blogger?... 

 

i don't know about the world but i do.

 

this blog will not be full of tea reviews. what i want to focus on is creating a resource for the kind of tea drinker i am now. someone who wants to drink good tea and doesn’t have a lot of money to spend (i just started looking to buy land this year to build a house on but everything is so expensive out here. it is ironically cheaper to buy a fixer up than to buy bare land where you have to pay for a well and the infrastructure for electricity and a driveway and you’ll probably have to clear a site for building and all of these things are expensive and add up). 

for tea drinkers in amerika, we do not have the traditional mode of learning about tea. in China, friends and strangers go to tea shops and hang out and drink tea and talk about tea. we do not have many shops that sell quality puer in america let alone a gaggle of people who will start sharing their own teas and sharing with you their years of tea wisdom. whatever i learn, i want to share.

 

i will keep this first post short. more posts to come where i sometimes talk about tea and mostly veer into personal stories and do midrashic explorations into weird writing ventures.

 

xoxo, 

gossip gurl… jk