These last few years the temperatures in California have been rising and dropping to ridiculous levels. These past few days have been in the hundreds, extra hot reaching around 115 where I live but today has been the lowest so far it’s 90 degrees. A great accompaniment for these temperatures is tea!
This morning I was piecing together verses for my songs then decided to make tea for breakfast I didn’t realize how hot it was until halfway down the cup, I realized I’m sweating like I’ve been running a marathon. I started wondering what is it with Africans and tea. I recall my mother once saying “If I come to your house and you don’t offer me food at least give me tea, that’s all I need.” I have been trying to talk about tea in my blog but just didn’t know how to inject it in my world of randomness, so today we are here.
On this baking summer morning, drinking tea, not iced tea, hot tea the African way, I wish I can do it differently perhaps I’ve gotten lazy but aren’t we all; my preparation was easy I just warmed up the water, poured it in my cup and dropped the tea bag in it, added 2 tea spoons of honey and voila, definitely not the way it used to be made by my mother and grandmother when I was a kid in Uganda.
Over the years in learning about better health and nutrition I got more interested in tea, the consumption of tea took on a different meaning for me. As a child we drank mostly black tea, but now I would never make black tea for myself or anybody else I usually prefer green tea, mint tea and different herbal teas. When I started my tea journey and intentionally changed my consumption from mainly black tea to the other options that’s when I realized how tea made me feel.
Today as an artist/musical performer I even value tea more, it helps me warm up my vocals and get me prepared but also keeps me busy as I’m working on my lyrics. Tea is an essential part of my life and I can’t wait to share more with you all, for now I’m gonna cool off and get some music done, thanks for reading!
Kujieleza 