Because of Your Smile

Recently, I was given an opportunity to travel far and away for a few months for work.  As interesting and fearful as this may seem for one who is almost absolutely content with one's routine, I have been mulling the idea over again and again in flashes and have not come to any conclusion as of yet.  What I do think about often is one scene in particular from a 2008 documentary on tea (The Meaning of Tea by Scott Chamberlin Hoyt) that I saw about two weeks ago where Mr. Lu-Feng Lu of Wu-Ling Tea Farm describes his experiences related to tea and his utterly inspiring joie de vivre. His words quickly cut to the chase and it was pretty obvious that this fellow had to be one of the happiest, if not the happiest, guys alive. And this was all related to his work and the life that he chose.  It is perhaps for this reason that I am not quite ready to leave, at least not for this chance.  I do wonder, though, as always, about all the inherent possibilities...

Mr. Lu-Feng Lu amidst the lovely tea fields of the Wu-Ling Tea Farm

No marketing department could replicate the truth of this smile.