No experience in a tea ceremony (yet!) but I've been wanting to attend one at the Shinzen gardens. I do love me a matcha latte with brown sugar though 💚💚💚

"Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why." Hunter S. Thompson I saw this quote on a building in LA a few weeks ago, and reading your post brought it back to the front of my brain.

Happy Valentine's everyone!

@Randy George On that note, I have a metal bar that I like to use like a weighted Jo. I feel like it adds a nice challenge to stretches and movement training.

I like to prep by expanding my skill sets. Having resources stored is valuable, but I'd also like to be prepared for a longer term situation. In that case, creativity and adaption are required, and that's where you want to give yourself as many options as you can. Tying knots, cooking and baking, food preservation and storage, mending and repair of different materials (sewing, basic leatherwork/care, knife sharpening) will help you out when the stored resources start running out. Make sure you learn your environment too, basic knowledge of what is safe to forage in the area and what to avoid, and where a source of water is will help if hunkering down isn't an available option (such as an evacuation, or zombie apocalypse.) When planning for what resources to store, I like to remember that hope is required for survival. A pack of cards takes minimal space, but can help fill the time and keep spirits light. And personally, I'd include a notebook and some way to write, as my teacher brain reminds me that we only have history to learn from because everyday people wrote down what their everyday lives were like.