Comments on: Crystal balls, English accents and tea leaves

By: Moni

Moni — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:02:17 +0000

Very cool. The fact a person can “read” tea leaves (never heard of that before) and the fact your muse owned a falcon. ;)

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:56:23 +0000

OMG – Alisa, I really and truly adore you. That comment is perfectly apropos to this post – don’t kid yourself. We see what we want to see and we see what we need to see and we see what we’re supposed to see.

By: Alisa Bowman

Alisa Bowman — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:13:08 +0000

I recently read about a bunch of common things that people tend to see in those Rorscharch Tests (the ink blot thing), which seems similar to tea leaves to me. The article had this picture of the ink blot and 8 or so common interpretations. Like if you saw an eagle spreading its wings, you were about to accomplish a big life goal. That sort of thing. Well, when I looked at the ink blot, I saw two people giving each other a high five. Apparently no one had seen that image in the ink blot before–so there was no psychological interpretation for it. So I looked at it again, trying to find the eagle and other things. But I could only see two people giving each other a high five. I came away from the experience convinced that I must have some sort of psychic uniqueness that defies explanation.

That comment almost has nothing to do with your post, but I apparently needed to share it with someone.

By: Julie Roads

Julie Roads — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:15:06 +0000

I go out for an hour and come back to so many wonderful comments – (save Jason’s sarcasm) – Thank you all!

Ed – I love your story…she also saw my grandparents looking over me, interestingly enough.

Jeff – LOL – yesssss! Scrolls are the Twitter of yesteryear.

Caroline – Luckily this was very inexpensive – and a fabulous mirror!

By: Caroline Quintanilla

Caroline Quintanilla — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:54:09 +0000

How often we look outside ourselves for the knowledge that lives within—-but it’s always nice to have a friend to talk with and explore (even, I guess, if we have to pay that “friend” to listen) I guess that is one reason why there is the Venus-Mars problem: we are not asking for solutions (a mars way of responding to someone who asks for help) but for assistance finding the knowledge that we have become disconnected from and are having difficulty finding.

As always Julie—thanks for your post.

By: Jeff Inglis

Jeff Inglis — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:53:00 +0000

So are falcons carrying scrolls the 12th-century equivalent of Twitter?

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:29:13 +0000

You should try to learn something new everyday: not to waste money on false prophets, tea leaves are for brewing tea, used tea leaves belong on the compost pile.
And yes, British accents do something for me, but I already knew that. :)

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:19:07 +0000

My grandmother lived with us when I was a kid. She made tea for dinner every evening…the old fashioned way. She boiled water in an upright metal tea kettle and then measured loose tea into the kettle,letting it boil for some time before serving it. It meant we had tea leaves in our tea every night. She would “read” them for us. Because she was my grandmother I believed her “readings.” Nothing since those days has ever indicated to me that she was wrong. I only wish that I had follwed her “readings” more carefully.