tea and globalization

Recently, i was reading a great deal about the history of tea. it made me think a little more about my caffeine habit. in the previous weeks, i have been drinking many cups. and, i was thinking about the carbon that has been expended.

Mango Power Girl is doing a good job of adding more vegan meals to her diet. We have tried this as well, and have good and bad days. recently, i jokingly commented on Mango Power Girl's blog that veganism is hard to do when you have dairy dreams as I do. though really, i think caffeine would be much, much harder to give up. of course, the carbon imprint of caffeine is greater because most of us pair it with milk and sugar. Then there are those disposable cups (if you do that.) I don't know. Some rational part of me wants to cut down, but some romantic part of me loves everything about tea drinking--the steeping (or even better the boiling of milk with leaves), the flavor, the smell, the lightest after taste on the tongue. When I think about it, nothing gives me quite that feeling; it is beyond mouth-feel, full-ness, taste. It is essential an experience, a pure moment. And, having coupled this consumption with such strong emotion, how do I break this? Especially when it enabled me through most of my procrastination....

this is also my entry to click the photo event by jugalbandi.