Uma chávena de chá, quente e aromatizada, é sempre uma excelente forma de:
1 - Parar o que estamos a fazer e que, na maior parte das vezes, não é ASSIM tão importante;
2 - Sentir o quente a reconfortar o nosso corpo;
3 - Cheirar o(s) perfume(s) da(s) ervas(s) seca(s) e perceber que o Universo é Grande e Abundante.
A propósito de chá, li há pouco tempo, num livro que me interessou, uma coisa interessante.
O livro chama-se "O Homem sem dinheiro" ou "The moneyless man", e foi escrito por Mark Boyle.
O livro fala da sua experiência de viver um ano absolutamente sem dinheiro. Além de interessante e de poder ser altamente educativo, o livro está escrito de uma forma divertida e lê-se muito rapidamente.
A páginas tantas, Boyle descreve duas formas de se fazer uma chávena de chá (a "lógica" - por ser feita por milhares de pessoas pelo mundo fora, e a "ilógica" por não ser utilizada por quase ninguém). Gostei da forma como ele descreveu os processos e aqui vos deixo para que possam reflectir por vós qual a maneira "lógica" de se fazer uma chávena de chá.
A-
"1. Get people in India to grow some black tea - plant it, weed it, harvest it, sell it to a local wholesaler for a price they find it increasingly difficult to survive on.
2. Have it imported 6,500 kilometres by air freight.
3. Get it sent to a UK wholesaler / central warehouse by a truck.
4. Get it sent from the warehouse to a retailer close to where you live, usually by van.
5. Drive, cycle or walk to pick it up from the shop.
6. Give the shopkeeper about £1.99, which actually isn't a lot when you consider the amount of people involved in the process.
7. Bring it home.
8. Order the national grid to give you enough electricity to boil the kettle with, by plugging it into the socket.
9. The national grid effectively sends you 3 times that which you've asked for, as they already know 67% of it will be lost on the way to your socket.
10. Grab yourself a mug.
11. Kettle boils, pour it on the tea, and enjoy a cup of tea made from dry leaves, statistically most likely in your house watching TV or outside a cafe watching cars go by.
12. Feel awake and alert from the caffeine fix it supplies.
13. Feel tired from the effects of the caffeine wearing off and, over time, from lacking the nutrients it has leached out of your body.
14. Urinate the tea, the toxins and your nutrients into your drinking water supply through the entrance called 'the toilet'."
B -
"1. Pick a handful of the abundant tea that grows freely around you at any given moment. My tea this week (below) - nettles and cleavers - grows wild within a 3 metre radius of my rocket stove, where I boil it.
2. Pick up some bits of wood lying around to fuel the rocket stove to boil the tea.
3. Take a look around at the stunning landscape you find yourself in, and wonder how lucky we all are.
4.Grab yourself a mug
5. Light up the rocket stove using this foraged wood and boil water with nettles and cleavers in it for 10 minutes.
6. Pour it into the mug (and a flask for later) and enjoy it outside in the country, listening to the bird's dusk chorus and watching a squirrel bury his nuts. Get some free Vitamin D from the sun into the bargain. (that is me in my kitchen below).
7. Feel refreshed and pumped full of iron, calcium, magnesium and anti-oxidants.
8. Urinate into the compost heap and activate the fertiliser for the crops you can't just find at the side of your house.
9. Watch the sunset over the horizon".
Hum... how do you take your tea?
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| Mark Boyle - Autor de "The moneylesse man" |
Num dia de Marte à 3ª hora de Mercúrio
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