Life And Living Part 33

If I Had My Way

Life and Living, Part Thirty-Three (Look below for the date this was written.)

Did you lay awake much of last night concerned with what I would be presenting today? You were thinking it would be “whatever is pure or whatever is lovely or whatever is admirable.”

No, I am not going in that direction. Have you ever noticed how a family tree will usually have many branches? I am going to branch out.

I am just going to talk about one thing that I like to be “pure,” and that is iced tea.

In some parts of the country, people know how to make pure iced tea. In the last few days, we have come to the time for some good pure iced tea. The weather has been “warm”. Now, you may be wondering why I have been putting these three words together each time I mentioned “tea”.

Well, I have come across some people in certain parts of the country who serve some of the ice tea that is not “pure ice tea”. It looks OK, but when you start to drink it, it tastes like a child's Kool-Aid because it is so sweet. It can't be pure iced tea because it has loads of sugar in it.

But if they know you are from that part of the country that knows what pure ice tea tastes like, they will usually humbly apologize, saying that here everyone likes their tea sweet. They are correct that everyone there likes their tea sweet, except for those who didn’t grow up with sweet tea.

Now, we already know that sweet tea is not pure tea, but to make matters worse, at times, they will gently say that it has been sweetened with some artificial sweetener. This makes it even worse – putting something artificial in a good glass of cold iced tea. When this happens, you know it is far from being pure iced tea.

I have been rattling on quite a bit now about pure iced tea, and I will have to cool it. At night, I like a good cup of hot tea. I don’t usually ask for a good cup of “pure” hot tea, though, because there aren’t very many of these on sale. Most are already “flavored” in the bag. You will just have to count for yourself how many flavors there are. So I have yielded to the flavored tea when served hot but without any sugar.

7/22/2020 Larry E. Whittington

I am just mixing things up a little. God bless you, and I thank you for reading some of my writings.