All Things Speak of Something Beyond Theirself

"Everything is symbolic, and all things speak of something beyond themselves," says the author. "You just have to look at it from the right angle to catch what it's saying." The tea ceremony offers a gate that lets you walk off an everyday place, like a road,. You step into a tea garden. There's a washing of your hands and mouth, a sitting in the garden for a while until the host calls you forward. And cald you show your perspective on tea ceremony, particularly in this moment and time in which we all are faced with so much sensory information at once.