Combining tradition and science to create natural and effective remedies.
This tea was created because when I am stressed I fall back on the comfortable things as far as taste and texture and sound and… not an uncommon thing, but there are certain pitches the whirring in my brain manages when I start to get overwhelmed that are akin to Continue Reading →
Sometimes polls are involved in the creation of tea. They can cover anything from “Help me pick a journal page to work up” to “What should I add to the toolbox?” to “I want to make something with this foundation, help me pick which idea to pursue” to “Let’s build Continue Reading →
The first way I attempted to go about this was far too complicated to keep up properly. I’ve decided that a better way is going to be to track what is currently in specific pens, and what was previously in specific pens, to make it a little easier on myself. Continue Reading →
At some point in May of 2019, a realization struck. I had many chais, but despite the intersection of a love of chai and a fondness for Earl Grey, I hadn’t combined the two. I dug through the tea journals. I went through the piles of tea ideas that hadn’t Continue Reading →
This tea began in a rare place. The seeds of it came from the sense of being listened to – but not in the moment. This was a circumstance where I felt like I had been listened to in a prior life-frame and that things I had said had trickled Continue Reading →
This post is going to be part apology part seeking input. I used to interact with social media in a more timed and gauged way. I tried to make sure that each platform saw something a little different, and tried to both keep from sending updates to every platform at Continue Reading →
Chocolate Oranges. Those little foil wrapped balls of fruit-flavoured chocolate have been a part of my life for almost as long as I can remember. For most of it, they have also been a special seasonal treat. Mid-December of the First Year of Our Plague (Coronavirus), the idea of a Continue Reading →
To start, I apologize for the fact that this is heading out late. The shop reopening, as light on numbers as it was, still managed to take a lot out of me and completely ate almost all of my waking hours for a handful of weeks. Still catching up on Continue Reading →