Response - by Anita

"When you sit in a café, with a lot of music in the background & a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, & the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self & produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, & from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real & the encounter between you & the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking."   ~Thich Nhat Hanh Anita's response - the green tea beckons   its the only drink i drink at Starbucks the zen flavor of lemon grass seeps the aroma astounds me light yet tangy life becomes that too in a NewYork minute California dreams arise.