Tea for the Tillerman
by Lorenzo Piccoli
In less than four months of flat sharing, Mindo converted me to the art of having tea together at least twice every day.
Now that I am back in Italy and Mindo moved to a new flat in Porte de Hal I started digging a bit into Tuareg culture. Not much, really, but enough to find out that you should never just drink a tea: it is so much better to have a tea. There are three conditions to have a tea: time, fire, friends. Additionally, it is important to drink always three cups: the first bitter as life, the second sweet as love, the third suave as death. But, as I wrote at the beginning of the post, we were drinking just two cups a day. Also, we did not have a fire and we barely had time. It was still good.
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Just because we have not passed a long cold communist winter together. Teas are more and more bitter just. Just as life.
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