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A collection of 20 issues

A Grand Adventure: Taiwan 2024 - Part 2

Tea is a window, a lens, a reflection. Tea is a means of sharpening the mind to see into the internal and external. The cultivation of self is aided by a study of tea, the understanding of culture is aided by the study of tea. There is more than tea,

A Grand Adventure: Taiwan 2024

Part 1 A year to the day since the last post - I don't think the wait has been in vain. After a brief layover in Taiwan last year bookending the 2023 TT Research Trip, I started planning a true return to form - a month of tea

Last Day in Taiwan

past reflections like shimmering ripples fading fading like the aches in the spring Nothing like a good soak your last day, though I hear Japan beats Taiwan on this count. See you on the flip side. Migrated Comments Brett Is this the public bathing house at Beitou? It looks so

An Unexpected Gift

ChowYu strikes again, this time literally with his calligraphy brush. After our last discussion at Wisteria, Yu asked me “what can I do for your Institute” and the first answer out of my mouth (before I could ask for HongYin) was “ART”. We had spent a lot of time talking

Papaya!

Vibrant thick, sweet and cold, Papaya in Taiwan is for the young and old. After tea, its good for me (maybe), filling and nice, no sugar, just ice, I drink my papaya far to fast because I have a problem with straws… Looks like I’m back to my old

GongFu Tea with Mr. Tsay

So many of us use the term “GongFu Cha” as a blanket term for “Chinese Tea Ceremony”; it makes sense as GongFu means skillful way, and we are all practicing with the goal of brewing better tea. Though we have had some disagreement, the Tea Institute classifies Chinese tea brewing

Haiku for Stéphane

Crazy Taiwan weather fains to interrupt; Beauty changes it’s mind, – Stéphane’s ChaXi continues.

Wisteria Tea House – Round 2

On returning to Wisteria Tea House (Pat and I are there quite often, working our way through the menu – oh, the pains we must bare), just a normal tea drinking day, we were greeted with overwhelming kindness and a fiery new interest by the infamous Chow Yu; He had read

A brief stop on the life’s to do list

Life Goal: Have top practitioners of the 3 tea ceremonies practicing together – CHECK Life Goal: watch; breath; repeat – CHECK Knowing I made this happen? – a wonderful feeling of fulfillment and accomplishment – now, back to work.

Extreme ChaXi – Taiwan Coast

What could be more extreme than making ChaXi on a rocky outcropping jutting into the ocean as typhoon driven waves crash violently against the rocks next to you and the rain pounds down with drops the size of hail (seriously, it started hailing as soon as we got back on