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Taking time to just be… {Olympia, WA Portrait Photographer}

There is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
   ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

I love the ritual of tea drinking.  The careful preparation, the dainty accouterments, the seductive wisps of steam rising and then disappearing.  I’m not sure if I prefer a solitary, meditative cup or the intimacy of sharing a pot of tea.  Either way, I’ve made a resolve to drink more tea. It’s just a simple way to remind myself to pause, reflect, be grateful, dream, and breathe.  It’s good to be reminded…_DSC3867w-logo _DSC3870w-logo _DSC3880w-logo _DSC3892w-logoAnd what better companion for tea than THIS sweetness? I wonder if there is a special tea for dogs…