clipped from writersalmanac.publicradio.orgGustave Flaubert said, "I can imagine nothing in the world preferable to a nice, well-heated room, with the books one loves and the leisure one wants."
Saturday, December 12, 2009
Friday, December 11, 2009
The Tea Zone
The TeaZone: A great place for tea in the Pearl District
This is our favorite place to relax during an afternoon walk in the Pearl. Our favorite is a bubble tea called the Heat Wave with tapioca pearls. Bubble teas are tea, flavor and ice blended together and poured over tapioca pearls or coconut beads. The Heat Wave is mango black tea with coconut and passion fruit flavor. Jhanne and Grant and all the staff are extremely friendly and helpful.
From the website:
The TeaZone opened in 1999 as Portland's premiere teahouse specializing in over 100 hand selected loose leaf teas, teapots and accessories.
Jhanne and Grant
We are a husband and wife owned American style tea salon in the heart of the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon. Jhanne Jasmine and Grant Cull started The TeaZone in 1999 after they became more interested in tea while living in Boston.
Grant is a Kiwi (New Zealander) who grew up drinking tea. After graduating with an agriculture degree, he did as many kiwis do, and traveled the world over. On these travels he experienced many cultures, people, cuisine, and TEA and eventually met Jhanne.
Jhanne a native Portland, Oregonian completed school back East, graduating with a degree in education. She eventually move back to New England after traveling overseas and drew Grant over to join her. As an accomplished musician and artist, Jhanne is the expressive, creative force behind this down-to-earth, magical couple.
"We were drawn back to the West Coast and Oregon with ties to family and getting us a little closer to New Zealand and decided a tea shop in the heart of coffee country was a grand idea. To us tea offers a way of experiencing a range of countries around the world through different taste experiences. Tea is a pleasant way to wind down, relax, and take the time to enjoy the quieter moments to life while enjoying a beverage that tastes good and has many wonderful health benefits."
The TeaZone offers over 60 quality loose leaf teas, the largest teapot and tea accessories selection in Portland, and a range of fine desserts, and savory food items. We serve lunch, a range of creative tea beverages, and offer a pleasant setting to enjoy sipping your tea in. The TeaZone does educational tea tastings, afternoon teas, and has free wireless internet service.
From the website:
The TeaZone opened in 1999 as Portland's premiere teahouse specializing in over 100 hand selected loose leaf teas, teapots and accessories.
Jhanne and Grant
We are a husband and wife owned American style tea salon in the heart of the Pearl District, Portland, Oregon. Jhanne Jasmine and Grant Cull started The TeaZone in 1999 after they became more interested in tea while living in Boston.
Grant is a Kiwi (New Zealander) who grew up drinking tea. After graduating with an agriculture degree, he did as many kiwis do, and traveled the world over. On these travels he experienced many cultures, people, cuisine, and TEA and eventually met Jhanne.
Jhanne a native Portland, Oregonian completed school back East, graduating with a degree in education. She eventually move back to New England after traveling overseas and drew Grant over to join her. As an accomplished musician and artist, Jhanne is the expressive, creative force behind this down-to-earth, magical couple.
"We were drawn back to the West Coast and Oregon with ties to family and getting us a little closer to New Zealand and decided a tea shop in the heart of coffee country was a grand idea. To us tea offers a way of experiencing a range of countries around the world through different taste experiences. Tea is a pleasant way to wind down, relax, and take the time to enjoy the quieter moments to life while enjoying a beverage that tastes good and has many wonderful health benefits."
The TeaZone offers over 60 quality loose leaf teas, the largest teapot and tea accessories selection in Portland, and a range of fine desserts, and savory food items. We serve lunch, a range of creative tea beverages, and offer a pleasant setting to enjoy sipping your tea in. The TeaZone does educational tea tastings, afternoon teas, and has free wireless internet service.
Word of the Day
gallimaufry \gal-uh-MAW-free\, noun:
A hodgepodge; jumble; confused medley.
Today bilingual programs are conducted in a gallimaufry of around 80 tongues, ranging from Spanish to Lithuanian to Micronesian Yapese.
-- Ezra Bowen, "For Learning or Ethnic Pride?", Time, July 8, 1985
We have the same eyes dark and chestnut hair. But I am a lame gallimaufry and she remains perfect.
-- Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible
Maran reports the daily jostlings and thrivings in a public school with 3,200 students, 185 teachers, 45 languages, a principal and five vice principals, five safety monitors, 62 sports teams and a gallimaufry of alternative programs, clubs and cliques.
-- Colman McCarthy, "A Writer Goes Back to School", Washington Post, August 20, 2001
Gallimaufry, originally meaning "a hash of various kinds of meats," comes from French galimafrée, from Old French, from galer, "to rejoice, to make merry" (source of English gala) + mafrer, "to eat much," from Medieval Dutch maffelen, "to open one's mouth wide."
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Carmel Point
Carmel Point
The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses—
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop
rockheads—
Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine
beauty Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff. —As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.
by Robinson Jeffers
from The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. © Stanford University Press, 1989.
From Writers' Almanac
The extraordinary patience of things!
This beautiful place defaced with a crop of suburban houses—
How beautiful when we first beheld it,
Unbroken field of poppy and lupin walled with clean cliffs;
No intrusion but two or three horses pasturing,
Or a few milch cows rubbing their flanks on the outcrop
rockheads—
Now the spoiler has come: does it care?
Not faintly. It has all time. It knows the people are a tide
That swells and in time will ebb, and all
Their works dissolve. Meanwhile the image of the pristine
beauty Lives in the very grain of the granite,
Safe as the endless ocean that climbs our cliff. —As for us:
We must uncenter our minds from ourselves;
We must unhumanize our views a little, and become confident
As the rock and ocean that we were made from.
by Robinson Jeffers
from The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers. © Stanford University Press, 1989.
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