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July 2023 (@yourchaiboy's Update)

This "TEAm" thing is really turning out alright and it couldn't have happened at a much better time than now. Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. - Lao Tzu It's getting busier for tea people. The market is clamoring for more tea, tea tasting, tea appreciation, and tea experiences in general. Will it just be another fad waiting to happen? Perhaps? Does it really matter? Personally, it doesn't. But I'm taking all the opportunity I can get to talk about the joy I get from drinking tea. And find kindred spirits along the way. So far, I'd say we're accomplishing just that. And of course, it's impossible not to talk about tea without ever talking about our journey...

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#loveforall Month (June)

P.S. I have several LGBTQIA+ friends and people are who very close to me and i love them all just the same, if not more. I love them all enough that i'm writing this. More than June being Pride month, to me, and most importantly, it reminds me of love for all. Photo by Yaroslav Shuraev: https://www.pexels.com/photo/photograph-of-a-rainbow-starting-on-a-hill-4937641/    

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Teamwork Makes the Dreamwork

It's a cliche, i know. But please indulge me, i'm a late-bloomer when it comes to teams and the beauty of it. The word team didn't mean as much to me especially growing up. To me, it wasn't any more than a group of people reluctantly bunched together. I get super envious when someone shares how much they love their team mates. I didn't have that growing up which unfortunately trickled down to my working life until recently. I'm so used to doing things on my own to a fault.  Sure, i think there's still some pride to be taken on being a one-man-show, but at this present day and age, i find it to be more pitiful than glorious....

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It Doesn't Make Any Sense

Please don't panic and hear me out. I'm entitling this update "it doesn't make" sense as sort of a window to my current state of mind for the past few months. And when things are not making sense, i write. It's been quite a while since i last updated you guys as well anyway. So for 2023, one of my goals is to update you more often and reconnect.  Lately, i feel like it doesn't make sense to write a blog/update. That is because i'm almost sure i'll just end up saying and prescribing slowing down. It doesn't make sense because for a fact that i know i'm not living that out myself. Truth is, i've been in a such...

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