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24 adar 5781 recently, cwyn wrote a very poignant and well written post on her blog. this post brought out all my personal puer anxieties . cwyn's post is emphasizing that drinking the best puer you can should be your ideal goal. she gave a $200 minimum as a rough estimate for the cost for this category of excellent tea. $200 (the exact number isn’t what’s important) for tea is a lot of money for my income. she also emphasizes that puer is only going to get more expensive (especially because of climate change and how that affects yields). i don’t disagree with her and that’s what stresses me out.   i approach everything through a political lens. i am a political person. me and cwyn come from different places. she is retired after a long successful career. she is using her retirement and the money she’s saved to drink very good tea. i do not have a lot of money and who knows what social security will look like when i retire…   i think about everything in my life in terms of a...