Tear Water Tea

This series is a tribute to Amy Dials and the children's book "Owl at Home." In the story, as far as I could tell from David's retelling and a few pages captured on flickr, the owl decides that it's thirsty and really wants some tear water tea. Of course the only way to make tear water tea is to cry into a teapot by recalling sad events. One example was of a wooden spoon that fell behind the oven, out of reach. A sad story indeed. This tale led me to recall a recent night at Chin Yen, a "lounge" attached to a nearby Chinese restaurant. On this particular occasion I captured this rare photo of Amy, looking rather forlorn. David and I of course took it upon ourselves to reenact this painful photo shoot. At the end of the day, we each made our own brand of tea water tea. Amy's tears filled an entire 40 oz! David, the least sad, could only fill the tiniest tea pot in China. I think I filled about half a Cuisinart.




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