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“I must drink lots of tea or I cannot work. Tea unleashes the potential which slumbers in the depth of my soul.” -Leo Tolstoy
Isn’t that a great quote? I cannot work without tea. It “unleashes my potential” happens to be true for me. And isn’t this a great spot? I have favorite benches all over the world. I sit in natural places, decked with beauty, I drink something wonderful and I center myself to a point of peace. Then I go back to life. Do you have such a place?
“Cheers, friends! Sit down and rest a spell!” my grandmother used to say when we came to her house. Always a welcome, always a cheery wish for us to take time for a visit, a time to chat, a time to be friends.
So, today, sit down and rest a spell. You will be so glad you did.
This week, I put aside many responsibilities and sat down with various of my people. Travel with Joy and me to London, and visit the places where we celebrated life together. We ate amazing food, walked thousands of steps, visited King’s College in London where she has a postdoc and teaches, and had an evening in the darkness looking out on the ships on the Thames, the city lights, the London Eye, and chatted about all that was on our heart.
I took time to visit with friends visiting from America. Ran into 3 different people who recognized me on the street—and gave a surprising response to one of them—(what in the world was I thinking?). Heard stories of valor, took time to go on long walks with one of my favorite people, to eat a hamburger out in the meadow.
This week, pondering Simon and Garfunkel, Robert Louis Stephenson’s book The Kidnappers, ate an Indian breakfast, pondered God’s never-ending presence in my life, and enjoying the beauty of spring. Won’t you join me?
I am always so tickled that so many of you like Tea Time Tuesday—what do you like about it and what do you want more of? I want it to be a “Take off your shoes and set a spell,” sort of time.