Rain


Which you can do w/o when you have to that can make a world of difference. 

Being w/o a real home and having to keep our belongings to a minimum for 2 years, there are quite a few of those little things I'd given up on temporarily. But now that we're home, we're getting those little things back, a couple at a time...

One thing I missed a lot was my japanese sen-cha green tea - tea leaves, not teabags - and having a real tea set to prepare it. I need my coffee, but I love my tea and the little ritual around it.

And so we just received our new tea set last night - and a bunch of other things - like,  in the same spirit, chopsticks. There's plenty of meals I was used to eating w/ chopsticks.

Man, I'm happy to have those things back into my life.