Hi, friends,

Are any of the rest of you hanging on by the messages on the back of the teabag tag? I drink a lot of herbal tea and Yogi brand has messages on the back of the tags on the teabags with sayings that are always right on the line between inspirational/peaceful and spiritual bypassing. I find that on the days I'm less scared they're comforting, and on the days I'm more scared they're enraging. Which I guess makes them sort of like a mood ring, but in written form.

A few days ago I was having one of those genuine panic moments, and I was making tea (DeTox, probably, because it's my favorite of the Yogi flavors and I can't resist CamelCase) and the teabag tag said:

And I drank my tea, dug in, and then did something productive, and felt better. Was that really my "heart's courage"? Possibly.

Right now I'm drinking Elderberry Lemon Balm Immune + Stress with Ashwagandha for Adaptogenic Support (the taste is less complex than the name, just kind of lemony berryish) and the tag on the teabag says:

Which is really a semantic equation that I don't think holds up. It's basically saying that love = joy, which as anyone who's been depressed knows just isn't true and is really insulting. I get the point, that love is great and joy is great, but we're fighting for our lives here so we don't need any false equations making existing more difficult.

Maybe I'll luck into a better tag aphorism with my 4 pm Honey Turmeric.

252 million of us didn't vote for this. It's time to act up and push back.

Love,

Magda

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