During the summer of 2013 hand-stitched tea bag books were left around York City. The books were made to collect testimonies of freedom; memories, poems, definitions, stories, metaphors, that spoke of what freedom meant to the
During the summer of 2013 hand-stitched tea bag books were left around York City. The books were made to collect testimonies of freedom; memories, poems, definitions, stories, metaphors, that spoke of what freedom meant to the person who discovered the little book.
The little leaf that the British first encountered in China, then cultivated for their own use in India, is now grown across the globe. It’s been used by Buddhist monks as medicine and an aid to meditation, and although it is not native to Britain it has become a Great British Institution. Not unlike the monks in China, British tea drinkers use their ritual of tea drinking as medicine (it is a remedy to any ailment, physical or social) and as an aid to meditation (the tea break). In Britain if you try you’ll find most conversations can comfortably accommodate the time it takes to put the kettle on, war