Lentils are one of the oldest foods cultivated by humans. They are extremely good. They’re easy to prepare. They usually only require soaking for a couple hours before cooking. You can purchase them bulk and at a good, community-based store they shouldn’t be that expensive and there should be multiple varieties. Lentils are great fried.…

Because I can reuse my tea-balls multiple times I actually have several “in-progress” tea-balls on my counter of different premium teas. I keep them in different little ceramic saki cups. The other day I decided to mix a couple of them together, creating a unique combination. Since these teas have interesting names its fun to…

Take care of your vegetables, and they will take care of you. What do I mean by this? People acquire vegetables and then take them home and put them in a refrigerator. I you only have one vegetable in your refrigerator – maybe a head of lettuce or a bunch of broccoli – there isn’t…

I can think of nothing more profoundly moving in the human realm here on Earth than a Christmas procession at a festive Christmas mass. During the opening procession of mass it literally feels like Divinity coming in its effulgent glory. At the closing procession it is like a grand, holy, magical energy has come and…

Today was my first run in a while after having bicycled a lot recently. During my run this afternoon I was very aware of how the bicycling has improved my running kinesthetics. In particular, it seems that bicycling up inclines is very helpful. When bicycling up a grade it causes you to exert more power…

Why is an infusion of leaves of the Camelia sinensis plant so good? I know this is a rhetorical question, but have you ever had a sip of tea – it may be tea that was brewed hours ago and was just sitting in a cup at room temperature – and it just felt like…

Divinity the reality is tied to life. Even if a being walked up in front of you and you knew it was a divinity that doesn’t mean it is still not an abstraction. Divinity the reality is in your memory, not your cognition. What you yearn for is not an abstraction, but a reality. The…

I’m just going to come out and say this: Caucasian curly hair and African hair are completely different.  Any website, forum, or product line which attempts to market to both is either incompetent or else greedy. The care for Caucasian curly hair and African  hair is different.  The hair types are different.  Structurally they are…

Silicon is great for hair. It has excellent conditioning and anti-frizz properties and, when used correctly, does not leave hair greasy nor weighed-down.  When you have curly hair, especially if it is fine or color-treated, you want to keep it moist but you also don’t want to weigh it down with heavy conditioning products and…

I know a lot of teas actually come from China, but today the package of the first-ever tea which I ordered directly from China arrived. It is a premium-grade Phoenix Dan Cong oolong. I put it in a Japanese tea container (chazutsu = cha (tea) + zutsu (cylinder)) but have not yet tried it because…