Peace

Peace is not always silence.
Peace is about sharing what's on your mind,
Peace is letting others speak their minds,
Peace is finding ways to make relationships work or ending them,
Peace is loving them anyway from a distance if you need to.
Peace is thinking for yourself.
Peace is caring for your wellbeing as much as you do others,
peace is knowing you are good enough,

Peace is what you make of it.

Words

Words to cut marrow, anger and sorrow,
Words you regret and forget,
Words you wish you could say,
Words familiar, well worn and clumsy,
Words inspiring, uplifting, strengthening and reassuring,
Words healing and forgiving,
Words full of life and death.

Summer

Wind blows through green waves,

Dreams of your smile warm my heart,

I lay in the grass.

Pink Bike

The following is a short poem I wrote when I got my first bike.

Cute princess bike,
Cheap bright pink paint,
Plastic streamers sprouting from the handlebars,
Banana seat with cartoon flowers,
Last one in the store,

Rode as fast as I could down hill,
Wind in my face, hands in the air,
Hit a pothole,
Wrecked,
Skinned my knee,
Scraped the pink paint,
Smiled.

Formosa Jade, Green Oolong, Tea Zone

Today I am drinking Formosa Jade, which is a green oolong tea and from Tea Zone. I love that the name oolong means black dragon tea.

I have been thinking more about the grading scale I want to use for reviewing the tea I drink. First off, I am a tea geek and not a tea snob. I love tea and drink all kinds! I love trying new teas. I think that to a good degree that how much a person enjoys a tea is based on what types of taste and flavor preferences one has. I have been drinking tea since I was a little girl and I think that is why I am more open to a wider variety or it. I like to think of good tea as a layer cake, that is to say there is a good beginning middle and end to it. I prefer to describe my experience with the tea rather than give it a number and let people deiced if it is one they would like to try. I like this method because each time you drink a tea you are a different person and the tea is also different. In this way you can never truly have the same tea twice, just as you can never step in the same river twice.

This tea has a beautiful flowery smell to it. This tea has a a delicate green tint to it that is quite simple and beautiful. Formosa Jade has a texture to it that is like velvet and has a medium body. It is grassy and slightly nutty with a delightful earthy taste to it. It is slightly herbaceous. It has a nice dry finish that is refreshing.

Blueberry White Tea

This is my first tea post! I just ordered a bunch of new tea and have been enjoying it quite a bit. I will slowly add in some guidelines as I write more reviews.

I will also be adding tea related links. If anyone wants to swap links, just let me know!

I am drinking Blueberry White Tea from Tea Zone today. It is made of a white tea base with dried blueberries.

The aroma for this tea is clean. Very slight scent of blueberry and a very light lingering after taste that is pleasant, though not what I expected from the scent of the dried tea. I thought that it would smell and taste more like blueberries. I was a little disappointed when it didn't. I still enjoyed the tea it is very drinkable.

The end of eBay's Monopoly

As a seller on eBay I have to say that over the past year ebay has fallen as my favorite marketplace. The no link policy hurt sells for many of us and they keep raising their fees. Sellers are moving to other sites like Amazon, Craigslist, Etsy, and buyers are following!

They have made many attempts that were clearly a way to keep hold of the advantages that they had. The problems is they are not that friendly when it comes to be social on the web, and so they are being left behind. Like AOL did when they tried to keep users away from other sites back in the nineties, they have lost part of what made them sticky by giving sellers less options.

There are many ways to sell and market now and if ebay is not willing to change and keep up with the new needs they will be left behind. They, like so many other past sites will be out of fashion.

"eBay has reported that for the first time ever, their 4th quarter revenues fell from the previous quarter."

Read More... http://onlinebusiness.about.com/b/2009/01/23/amazon-and-craigslist-batter-ebay-from-both-sides.htm