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Apparently Mom Really Does Know Best

Guest — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 22:21:20 +0000

Apparently Mom Really Does Know Best… Check out the recent review from a 2009 Best of Blog Challenge. Yah, we know Chamomile is in the herbal category and the positive feedback is another way of sharing the love…sharing the tea…

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Tea of the year. I can taste my favorite tea right now. What’s yours? By Mom in the City

I love tea. I’m not very particular about the brand either. Lipton is fine. So is Celestial Seasonings. Tazo is a bit better. My favorite of the year though is “Egyptian Chamomile” from Art of Tea. I am not the only one who…Click here to read more

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Rumi Tea

Steve Schwartz, Founder & CEO — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:21:12 +0000

There is a certain peace of mind that comes with drinking a freshly steeped cup of tea. Today at the Art of Tea we had 4 potential wholesale customers visiting our warehouse and enjoying tea together. By chance, two were of Arabic descent and the other two were from Israel. All four found a sense of peace and a deep sense of joy and camaraderie in sharing tea together. The common thread was how they all looked back at tea as a part of a their childhood experience, saying that “it was always around” and “I remember my grandparents making me tea” and “It is part of our culture.”
One person on each side shared a common way of leaving a bit of tea in their cup as to not let the taste or sense to come to an end. To them an empty tea cup was likened to an ending. While the other two agreed that not finishing their tea was disrespectful and the liquid contents in the cup must be consumed in its entirety.
It was agreed that tea is the gap between nations, religions, genders and cultures. We can learn alot from the slowing process of sitting and allowing the tea to take in its positive effects on our state of mind and body and reveal our own sense of humanity and intelligence as stated so poetically “Two Kinds of Intelligence” in the book Essential Rumi

Two Kinds of Intelligence

There are two kinds of intelligence: One acquired,
as a child in school memorizes facts and concepts
from books and from what the teacher says,
collecting information from the traditional sciences
as well as from the new sciences.

With such intelligence you rise in the world.
You get ranked ahead or behind others
in regard to your competence in retaining
information. You stroll with this intelligence
in and out of fields of knowledge, getting always more
marks on your preserving tablets.

There is another kind of tablet, one
already completed and preserved inside you.
A spring overflowing its springbox. A freshness
in the center of the chest. This other intelligence
does not turn yellow or stagnate. It’s fluid,
and it doesn’t move from outside to inside
through the conduits of plumbing-learning.

This second knowing is a fountainhead
from within you, moving out.

Version by Coleman Barks
“Essential Rumi”
HarperSanFrancisco, 1995

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Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace Book Event

Guest — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:10:31 +0000

It’s Maria, here. I’m excited to tell you about my time with Greg Mortenson, author of Three Cups of Tea!
Art of Tea was able to support the Long Beach Library Foundation and Greg’s Central Asia Institute at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center for the Long Beach Reads One Book event. We also served tea at a luncheon at the delicious Fresh Foods Cafe on Golden Shores.

Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time is a riveting story about how Greg’s goal to climb Pakistan’s mountain K2 ultimately led him to a small village in Pakistan. He needed care, and the people of this village healed his body and his heart. After seeing the local children playing and drawing in the dirt with no school to go to, Greg set his mind to build a school for the village, named Korphe. As of last year, Mortenson has established over 78 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which provide education for over 28,000 children, including 18,000 girls, where few education opportunities existed before.

To learn more about Greg and his New York Times #1 best seller, please visit: http://www.threecupsoftea.com/

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Maria Warman is an independent contractor representing Art of Tea. You may also find her working hard building homes and volunteering on preservation projects from Brazil to Ethiopia.

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