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Bare feet in a meadow

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For my final assessment to become a shift manager at work I had to do a tea or coffee tasting with my boss. I chose tea because I wasn't feeling well and I decided to go with the tea called "Calm." "Why?" You ask? "Does it have distinctive ginger flavors or sweet smells of mahogany?" No. Neither. I chose the tea because the description of the tea said "..it's like walking barefoot through a meadow on a mountainside." Who wouldn't want to drink something that said that!? It's like drinking New Zealand! I sat and sniffed and slurped and scalded my taste buds. With eyes closed, I could see it.  I could feel the meadow around my feet. I could also feel myself becoming Fraulein Maria so I stayed a moment and waited for Christopher Plummer, but he never showed up. Why am so hung up on this tea bag and making a point to have Christopher Plummer reference? Because that simple bag of tea is a great reminder to calm the hell d