The creation of this blog came at me all at once, and once the idea stuck in my head, I knew it had to be born. Birthed? Created? Conceived?
Hello, my name is Abi, and my background is in fine arts. This might become apparent immediately—that I naturally am not a writer. This fact doesn’t much deter me from writing simply because the subject matter requires an author. And I have whatever drives any author to the pen (keyboard). Maybe a mighty need to be heard, maybe a requirement that someone somewhere can read these words and feel the passion behind them.
So what, you might ask, is this all about? A blog in the year of our Lord 2026—yes, TWENTY TWENTY SIX—I am making a blog. Debatably, a decade ago was too late to make a blog, yet here I am! The last known woman on earth clicking a WordPress domain for a year checkout and typing on this satisfyingly clicky mechanical keyboard. (Thank you, Caleb. I don’t know if I fully appreciated how nice this keyboard is until this moment.) When going through the mediums one can use for the purpose of sharing an idea, all of them seemed wholly wrong but this. I expect to make numerous grammar issues, stumble through my thoughts, and not use AI at all for anything in an effort to learn.
For this, dear reader, is both parts selfish and even more selfish. I both want you to hear my words and for me to get better at them all at once. I am needlessly excited that my friends, who I inevitably share this blog with, will feel some kind of social obligation to read this. If all I get out of this is some friends reading it, that, I have determined, is enough.
I have written this blog to share my love of tea and be a place to read all at once. So maybe not every one of my motivations is purely selfish; I do think of you on the other end of this. I want you to, for a moment, be imaginative, be planning and daydreaming along with me, be escaping whatever world you are in to be in one of our own making.
And sometimes, in the hypothetical, words are simply the best option.
When making this blog I realized I had to do some visual work, it became very exciting. Making the color palate I knew I had to be inspired by the thing we are all here for, Tea! The black color you see at the beginning of this image represents an important foundation black tea.
First originating in China, the beverage’s name there is hong cha (Chinese: 红茶, “red tea”) due to the colour of the oxidized leaves when processed appropriately. -Wikipedia Page ‘Black Tea’
Technically as you have read, the tea is more red than black. The name comes from the color of the leaves before they are blissfully poured into by a kettle. I wanted a good foundational dark color for the text to pop off this nice off-white.
The secondary color is this rich orange that has a pretty big punch. A plethora of tea shares this color but this specifically is inspired by pu’erh tea. If you have never heard of this tea it might be because of its acquired taste. Its a very earthy tea and there are a variety of quality control and storage issues it faces. It is another tea with an origin in china
Most teas, although described as fermented, are actually oxidised by enzymes present in the tea plant. Pu’er is instead fermented microbially by molds, bacteria and yeasts present on the harvested leaves of the tea plant, and thus is truly fermented. -Wikipedia Page ‘Pu’er Tea’
Now we get along to this raspberry warm purply-pink color. This is more of an overall encapsulation of a “tea” category herbal blends. As you might know, herbal tea is not technically tea because it doesn’t come from the plant Camellia Sinesis like black, green, white. Instead, it is an infusion of herbs, flowers, fruits, spices and the likes. So each herbal blend is pretty unique and has its own flavor and claimed benefits.
These infusions include: dried herbs, fruits, flowers, roots and spices, which have been steeped in hot water since the beginning of time and drunk as a warm soothing beverage or invigorating boost to the day. -numi tea blog
Next and technically my first color pick Green Tea. It is difficult for me to think of tea without this category and color. The color and variety of green is vast in tea world but I selected a middling yellow green to represent the category. I enjoy the earthy unique flavor but I wouldn’t say green is a beginners tea. For centuries, people have widely claimed huge scoping benefits for green tea. I tend to be realistic about the application of what tea does in my life. It is a wonderful drink that I tend to enjoy the ritual of as much as the taste and flavors. I do not claim to know what a green tea can or can’t do for me, but the FDA has some interesting findings.
The FDA has approved a specific green tea extract ointment as a prescription drug for treating genital warts. -nccih government website of health
Finally I leave you with white tea. Named after the unopened young buds that leave a fine white hair around the leaf, white tea is the least processed tea from the Camellia Sinesis plant. It is known for its light floral flavor and delicate flavor. The color is perfect for our background color and can’t you just FEEL the difference of this two shade different than stark white, white?
For many years it was believed that white tea was discovered during the Song Dynasty (920-1269), however, even earlier references to white tea have been traced as far back as the Tang Dynasty (618-907). At that time in history, white tea preparation was a very different experience than it is today: early harvest white tea leaves appeared solely in compressed cakes and broken pieces were steeped in earthenware kettles.-art of tea blog
I want to thank you for getting to this point of the blog. I am anxiously awaiting your feedback as you read this. I imagine it’s riddled with errors, but the most important thing to me is our joint newfound passion for tea and blogs. You will go around telling your friends about this newfound passion you have for blogs in the year of our Lord 2026, and your friends will give you a look that says, “Didn’t we leave that behind in 2013?” But you, my dear reader, will give them a look right back that says, “You would be the people who never got up in WALL-E.”
