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Oh, this is good, I was delighted when a friend recommended these books to me. My quiet semi-retirement plan is to take up tea selling, modeled after Dex and so
by rrix2 3y ago
Oh, this is good, I was delighted when a friend recommended these books to me. My quiet semi-retirement plan is to take up tea selling, modeled after Dex and some other tea monks.
There's a poet by the name of Baisao, the old tea seller. In Norman Waddell's translation, subtitled Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto you'll find this poem:
Set up shop this time
on the banks of the Kamo
customers, sitting idly
forget host and guest
their long sleep ends
awakened, they realize
they're the same as before.
Anyway, I have a pack list for a tea shop that fits in a bike pannier, and my other pannier can hold water :) My plan for the first sunny day of spring is to park my car at one end of town and have my partner drop me and my bike off at the other end of town, and set up wherever seems nice while I ride back to my car, stopping at stores for water and snacks along the way.