Month: November 2019
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The Two Faces of Issaku
At the Portland Tea Festival in July (of this year, the time of this writing), Oolong Owl dragged me to a Japanese tea vendor booth. This was markedly weird for two reasons: one, the Owl rarely dragged—more like, prodded. Two: it was a Japanese tea vendor. I always assumed she was just a puerh stan.…
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Entheogenesis in Chicago
At the end of October, I did something completely out of character. I traveled to a city I’d never visited . . . for a tea festival. Stranger still? I flew out for said unknown (to me) city on Halloween. Nothing about this—my motivation, my ambition, what-have-you—added up. The city? Chicago. The event? The Chicago…
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Revisiting Castleton Moonlight
I think it’s high time I talk about the Castleton estate. Again.