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From: Calm Blue Ocean, Calm Blue Ocean
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posted March 29, 2007 02:17 AM         

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I found this on the side of a box of tea, how delightful!

"When we were young, the 'tall' ones told us when to slow down. When the demands of the world became too great, their powers of reasoning proved maddeningly accurate. 'I think someone's tired,' they observed. And off for a nap we went. Ten minutes later, our dreaming faces had put us back in good favor with our exasperated parents. When we woke, the word somehow made sense again. What kind of truth might a napping child impart to us? Now we are the tall ones, living in a complicated world with no one to tell us when to slow down. The slumbering little one knows the value of not having the last word, or accepting a minor defeat. It's so simple. Miss out on something. Put yourself back in your own good favor. The world will wait."

-David Jacoby

There's something so wholesome about tea. tea

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From: Ontario, Canada
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posted March 29, 2007 11:05 AM         

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Thanks BlueRoamer!!!!

I Love My Tea Tooo!!!!!

100% Organic

Mate' Factor Yerba Mate'

CARDAMOM CHAI

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posted March 29, 2007 11:09 AM         

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http://www.matefactor.com/

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posted March 29, 2007 11:34 AM         

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Hmm... thanks for the quote. Sleep and tea are my biggest, fattest addictions...

Well first, it was sleep... stress makes me sleepy. Stress seems to make most other ppl nervous or angry. I don't really lash out. I spontaneously nod off or curl up like a cat and fall asleep. Then I wake up, no longer feeling sh1tfaced.

The other big addiction is tea---hence, the alias. It picks up my normally low energy levels... but not in a O_O kind of way that a shot of espresso would incur. Tea is nice and smooth.

Tau Sun, Leo Moon, Tau Mars, Leo Asc (Do these placements scream power-napper?)

Friends think I was a cat in a previous lifetime.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2GWPOPSXGYI

My favorite tea shop.
http://www.tenren.com/

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From: South of the Thumb - Taurus, Pisces, Cancer
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posted March 29, 2007 01:08 PM         

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Tea and napping do not go hand and hand with me.

I like tea, especially Oolong tea. I can drink coffee all day long and although it makes me a bit jittery it does not keep me awake. But tea keeps me up for days.

Everyone's system is different I guess.

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posted March 29, 2007 01:39 PM         

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If I had to pick between tea and nap I would.......have REALLY hard time because tea does keep me awake. Thankfully there is a decaf version of many teas and some herbal teas are naturally caffein free

Rainy afternoon, comfy sofa with a lot of pillows and soft blanket. Cup of Earl Grey and ricotta/chocolate canoli or.... black currant tea and a fruit tart. Top it with slightly boring book and...mmmm....doesn't get much better

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posted March 29, 2007 04:27 PM         

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~Do Not Seek Wealth From The Suffering, Or The Dire Needs Of Others~
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posted March 29, 2007 04:53 PM         

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Heehee... I was just drinking tea and wishing I was napping.

Are you guys talkin' to me???!

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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 30, 2007 12:10 PM         

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posted March 30, 2007 12:12 PM         

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The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you.
Don't go back to sleep.
You must ask for what you really want.
Don't go back to sleep.
People are going back and forth across the doorsill
where the two worlds touch.
The door is round and open.
Don't go back to sleep.

-Rumi

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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 30, 2007 12:14 PM         

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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.

2

Dreaming when Dawn’s Left Hand was in the Sky
I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,
“Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup
Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.”
http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/4756/

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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 30, 2007 12:16 PM         

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The Book of Ecclesiastes

Chapter 1

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

16 I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

18 For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

http://justbible.com/bychapter.asp?bookchap=B21C001.htm

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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 30, 2007 12:18 PM         

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Chapter 3

1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:

2 A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

6 A time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

7 A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

8 A time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.

9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

10 I have seen the travail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised in it.

11 He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

12 I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

13 And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

14 I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

15 That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

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posted March 30, 2007 12:33 PM         

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I love tea with a lemon slice!

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From: 11/6/78 11:38am Boston, MA
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posted March 30, 2007 01:16 PM         

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Chamomile is the Second Coming.

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