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Cloudwalking. 1960s oolong.
09/22/2026

Cloudwalking. 1960s oolong.

The whole world can shift in the space of a single cup of tea.We tune the moments of our lives from within —through tea ...
05/23/2026

The whole world can shift in the space of a single cup of tea.

We tune the moments of our lives from within —through tea that draws us outside of time, into the spaces between the notes.

Not a race against time, but a slow dance to an older rhythm.





Suspending Animation (Solstice)Solstice.Light holds. Then lets go.A cup. A table.What remains, when the work is already ...
12/22/2025

Suspending Animation (Solstice)

Solstice.
Light holds. Then lets go.
A cup. A table.
What remains, when the work is already done.





12/19/2025

Brewing a 1980 to ring out the Season.

12/12/2025

Bridging the divide of Time and Space. 46 years of tea compressed into a single session. 03’ Wild Puerh vs. 03’ Wild Puerh. Tea achieves the experience of ‘malting’ — a rare and highly valued state of being.

Tea Clinic Returns — This Friday at JagaSilk10AM • $25 • First come, first servedTwo identical cakes, two very different...
12/11/2025

Tea Clinic Returns — This Friday at JagaSilk
10AM • $25 • First come, first served

Two identical cakes, two very different lives:
one resting in Taiwan’s warm natural storage,
the other aging quietly here on the cool West Coast.

What does temperature ask of a tea?
What does humidity return?
And where, between these two climates, does flavour reveal its truest self?

Erick Smithe (Cloudwalker Tea) and Jared Nyberg (JagaSilk) guide a comparative tasting and discussion on the forces that shape pu-erh over time.

Tea Clinic Returns — This Friday at JagaSilk10AM • $25 • First come, first servedTwo identical cakes, two very different...
12/11/2025

Tea Clinic Returns — This Friday at JagaSilk
10AM • $25 • First come, first served

Two identical cakes, two very different lives:
one resting in Taiwan’s warm natural storage,
the other aging quietly here on the cool West Coast.

What does temperature ask of a tea?
What does humidity return?
And where, between these two climates, does flavour reveal its truest self?

Erick Smithe (Cloudwalker Tea) and Jared Nyberg (JagaSilk) guide a comparative tasting and discussion on the forces that shape puerh over time.

Like rainbows slipping out of cloud after rain,this tea lifts a fog,shifts the veil.Never quite certainwhether the gaze ...
12/10/2025

Like rainbows slipping out of cloud after rain,
this tea lifts a fog,
shifts the veil.
Never quite certain
whether the gaze moves around it
or through it.

What becomes unmistakable is aliveness.
Here, or where — it does not matter;
light on glass, steam,
a small flame stepping forward inside all this light.
Tea becomes a lens, letting attention settle
until what is true can be seen.
Each cup holds a fragmentary eternity —
still, and still moving.
Consciousness is king; the leaves are only its messengers

Early tea today — before daylight, before thoughts arranged themselves.The leaves opened slowly, releasing that familiar...
12/05/2025

Early tea today — before daylight, before thoughts arranged themselves.

The leaves opened slowly, releasing that familiar ember glow.
Something in me opened with it.
Not dramatically — just enough to feel a thread catch again.

There’s tea as a commodity, and then there’s tea as a small turning of the inner wheel.
I follow the latter.
It’s the only path that’s ever made sense.

Here’s to quiet beginnings, even on winter mornings.

⸻The steam rose with that quiet, amber shimmer — the kind old leaves give when they’re ready to speak.Today the session ...
11/25/2025

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The steam rose with that quiet, amber shimmer — the kind old leaves give when they’re ready to speak.

Today the session felt carved from another layer of time.
The colour deepened, the aromas moved in slow, deliberate spirals,
and the cup carried a softness edged with something ancient.

There are moments when tea reveals a facet you didn’t know it held —
a glint, a pulse, a brief opening in the grain of the world.
No theatre. No posture.
Only the leaf coming forward as itself.

These leaves have travelled farther than I ever will.
Their language isn’t learned — it’s remembered.
And when it surfaces, it feels less like tasting and more like being met.

I follow those moments.
That shimmer in the steam, that quiet intelligence in the brew.
The things that can’t be staged, copied, or taught —
only encountered.

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