TeaTalk:101

There's a big difference between hot leaf juice and tea. Tea provides comfort, warmth, and the water doesn't burn you from the inside. Hot leaf juice is the promise of tea, but the disappointment of getting a fraction of what you'd asked for.  Living in America is like having a camera that only takes good pictures half the time. It truly is just a battle between the districts, your class being more important than any skill . Through the Renaissance, towards the Modern Age, past the 1900s and straight to the Recession, they’ve all carried the weight of an inherited advantage of being born fortunate.    Although we’ve only read the first few scenes, Sweat captures the reality of what the poster-child of freedom desperately tries to hide. Underneath the promise that “all men are created equal,” the pursuit of happiness is more of a battle than a path . This country might house a third of the world’s billionaires, yet we are chained by crippling debt. We have one of ...

 Authors Note: I haven't written like this in a second, enjoy that-  *salutes*   “ They’re a rotten crowd. You deserve the whole lot of them put together.”   It was the only compliment I ever gave him, but it was worth it. The politeness faded from his face the second he processed my words, replaced with that radiant, end-to-end smile. Every moment with Gatsby was always filled with his radiance, his presence, yet in that moment, he truly was just James Gatz, someone wanting to reach for a dream far away. A corrupt dream, yes, but he believed he could reach the light. It was then I turned away, and I will always, to some extent, regret not having stayed with him outright on that fateful day, knowing that I might have spared him of the pain.   I was well into my work when it finally caught up with me. The realization, if you could call it that, embedded itself into my bloodstream . I have never given much thought to superstitions, yet the sudden urgency t...

Can I interest any of you in a coffee coffee ? A lemonade lemonade ? Maybe you’re more of a chai te a p er son...       Now some of you might question why only one of those answers seems grammatically correct, and alas ‘old sport,’ you’ve fallen into a stereotype without realizing it. Chai is the word for tea i n just about every Indian language, and every time we hear ‘Chai Tea,’ a yellow car personally smacks our Wilson soul .  Now I’m not here to go all ‘Tom’ on you, as unlike his cheating, Chai Tea is an innocent mistake and can be fixed by simply listening and learning !   Wait ...t ea, cars, cheating husband, a female dying in a crash...this sounds pretty familiar ...   What love story could possibly have all that in common? I t’s Diana, C happed Lips , and Temu Diana, of course!   H ere’s how Diana and King Manchild are pretty similar t o Daisy and Tom :D   The Age Gap : Kind of an expected trend for the time period , but b...

Before getting into the actual blog, I feel inclined to tell you that my dad asked me to help him install an entire ceiling fan and I am tired from that. To be honest, I need more energy to do this ...   Do you know what helps with exhaustion and energy?   That’s right, it’s consumerism :D   Well, at least that’s what Tom, Myrtle, and frankly the entire modern world seems to think. After the First World War, common thoughts and norms started to shift. What do people do when they come out of war depressed, sad, and unaware of how their life is going to re-stabilize? They spend money, of course!!     The early 1900s saw the boom in mass production, fast fashion, and essentially anything you can throw your excess war money at, but this was only for the rich. When looking behind one side of the War’s outcome, being the scandalous ankles of the 20s, the working class was, well working, to balance the upper-class' demand with whatever new niche was trending. The ...