There’s something about a cup of tea ~ February 23, 1995
David Heiller I remember when we were kids, every day after school was out, one of my sisters would make a pot of tea and pour us each a cup. Someone would put some cookies out; we’d sit around the kitchen table and talk about our day at school and slowly sip our cups of tea, with plenty of sugar to make them sweet, and savor them like a special treat. No matter how chilly it was outside, or if we’d got into a fight that day, or lost our best friend to another, the tea made the bad parts go away. Then later on at the supper table, Mom would make herself a cup and Grandma too, if she came down. Maybe it was the stronger kind, the kind that keeps you wide awake. She needed that, with all us kids. But probably more she needed the calm that settles around you like a quilt, when you have a cup of tea nice and warm between your hands. Malika enjoying a morning cup whilst her hair is fixed for the day. Now we start the day with tea, every morning, my wife and I. ...