Time for some wild-tree purple white tea in the garden. #teahead #zen

A great day for heading out on a ramble through country lanes. I like the term ramble as it has a certain vibe about it. ‘I walked’, doesn't begin to describe being in the countryside on a day like this. Rambles were invented for mornings like this. #naturalist #ramble. #trees #Aotearoa

What a morning to walk out into the hills, the sweet smell of ensilage and meadow pasture, cackling magpies and a soft brushing breeze. The sort of morning Laurie Lee wrote about #summer #Aotearoa #Watākere

Warring librarians & catrocide: This book digs into the unusual details surrounding the Great Library of Alexandria and its rival, the Library of Pergamum. One instance is of a visiting Roman who killed a cat was murdered by an angry mob. As Umberto Eco said, ‘a library is the memory of humankind’.

There is a remedy for the world's bullshit. Find a walled garden, explore the small hidden places, wash the dust of the world from your hands with a ladle, let go, brew high mountain Chinese tea, discuss Chinese poetry with friends, enjoy the bird song - Zen life #tea #tao #ch’an

My tuxedo cat Zirky just pushed adead mouse under the bathroom door while I was having a shower.

Billy Holiday sang, ‘ooh ooh ooh, what a little moonlight can do’. Yue Guang Bai White Moonlight, a white tea made from old trees in Jinggu province, handpicked. The first sniff, fresh cut hay, summer nights and peaches. The Qi is strong and a gentle warmth and calm creeps over the body.

Oops, Just arrived here after a weird and bumpy ride through the FreeJazz Nebula, bringing greetings from Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders.