Go Have Some Tea

Tea is magic and mystic and borderline sacred. It's also delicious and stimulating. And if you think you don't like tea, well, okay, sure, you tried a sip of something squeezed out of a cloth teabag filled with the dust from the bottom of the bin after they pack up all the good leaves, that came out of a box that was marked "TEA" and you didn't like it -- can't blame you. How about whole loose leaves given room to expand, instead of leftover dust? How about tea with raspberries? How about leaves rolled up into little balls that unfold as they brew? How about a most marvelous elixer from Seattle that can (poorly) be described as drinking a freshly baked orange spice cookie?

How about teas for relaxing and teas for waking up and teas with slightly exaggerated health benefits but they taste pretty good anyway and can't hurt?

How about serving your Goddess by serving Her tea? Personal favorite, that.*

How about drinking a cup of tea because She told you to?

How about turning tea into a daily ritual for peace, calm and reflection, whether on self, on life... or even on being owned, whispering mantras of devotion and obedience between sips?

How about a robotic teamaking kettle with temperature and brewing time adjusted for tea grade, age, altitude, water quality, time of day, and horoscope averaged from five major online newspapers? Er, how about we skip that one. How about a fancy brewer that opens a valve and drains out when you put it on your mug? No, because you can't wash it. How about you get yourself a plain stainless tea strainer and some tea that doesn't suck?

How about we go have some tea.

*: Place strainer in mug, spoon tea leaves into strainer. Pour near-boiling water over tea. Wait about 50% longer than the tea's guidelines, or lacking that, about 5 minutes. Remove strainer. Add no milk or sweetener unless commanded. Carry to Goddess with or without saucer. Kneel. Offer. Enjoy that She enjoys!

Follow-Up:
Keurig makes a line of machines that, by way of a single-use plastic pod ("K-Cup") about the size of the dipping sauce cups you get when ordering pizza, make a respectable cup of coffee. Not coffee shop coffee, of course, but better than a drip brewer and usually on par with a french press.

HOWEVER, while there are tea pods for the Keurig, they deliver a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea.

HOWEVER YET AGAIN, if you have one for making coffee anyway, running the machine without a pod in it will conveniently dispense 6, 8 or 10 oz of perfectly just-below-boiling water into your mug and tea strainer.