The tale of Ask Not the Sea Her Secrets starts with my tendency to not sleep enough and to make my days longer than is really sensible for a human to choose to do to themselves.
I’d wandered out into the kitchen, very tired, something that has been more common as I try to thread the needle of recovering from using up one of my lives, intending to get my nightly glass of milk and fending. (The fending isn’t an additive, it’s just a part of the later process, as Merlin really loves milk, and figures we should share it.)
Instead of pouring a glass of milk I put a little sugar in the bottom of a mug, tapped out and rinsed a tea strainer, put that in the mug too and then stared at what I’d done for a little bit trying to decide if my issues with wasting food (even that tiny amount of sugar) outweighed my lack of desire to drink a Sweet cup of milk, and eventually chose to finish off what started as an autopilot sequence and just make tea.
Unfortunately I had no desire to drink anything caffeinated, even if it is more of a brain regulatory assist than it is an awakeness assist and nothing that I had on hand that did not contain caffeine seemed particularly appealing.
So, while grumbling at myself about the apparent need to make a new tea, I made a new tea, and scrawled the list of things I had sleepily flung into the strainer onto the notepad attached to the fridge via magnet so that I could recreate it if it turned out to be a good thing, and I remembered the general ratios I’d used.
That tea was this tea, and it was definitely a good thing.
I slept better, too, though there did seem to be an effect on my dreams. Not a bad one, despite the fact that they somehow managed to be even more vivid than is the normal state of affairs for me, because the topical matter was different – more actual dream, less relived daymare. Your mileage may vary, because I only have myself as a test case, but so far drinking the tea near sleep this is consistent. (The same is true of its cousin, the SereniTea I finally made for myself, but that’s for another post.)
When I looked at the ingredients list again, the next morning, I realized that my tired brain had pulled together some of my musings regarding how I could create a tea for the Luidaeg. (There’d been a thought pot simmering in the back of my mind somewhere, with data from books and pieces of my own musings added in as I found them or thought of them, and this was the first tea that was produced from that simmering.)
I’ve known for a while that there was likely to be more than one tea for the Luidaeg.
The name flickered to mind after I’d read In Sea Salt Tears, and locked in for the tea almost immediately.
Even the timing of figuring out the recipe for it properly seemed to align with the sense of the character on some levels, as that was done the day before I ended up in the ICU.
It is a tea that fits a niche that I frequently need and only have a few teas for, where it helps to support through a last push when energy is needed and I am tired, but also helps me to access important things like sleep when I am too tired to figure out how to get there without help.
Now for the basics:
Organic Ingredients: Chicory, Roasted Cacao Shells, Dulse, Tulsi, Blackberry Leaf, Cinnamon
Batch Size: 2.6 oz, approximately 73 grams, 30+ servings of tea.
Options: Loose Tea (5 serving sample (Bag or Tin), Full Batch (Bag or Tin)), Teabags (Single Teabag, 5 teabag sample (Bag or Tin), Full Batch (Bag))
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