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Common Vision Crew 2011 (Photo: Bootstrap)<\/p><\/div>\n

On Sunday March 20th<\/sup>, the third anniversary of when I first bought Edna<\/a>, it had just been the longest I\u2019d been apart from her since we met. I know it seems kind of funny for me to make such a big deal about this, but for real, this bus represents the path I am taking my life. The whole free tea project, alternative\/sustainable living, everything \u2013 Edna represents it all for me. All my spare time, money, and love I have been putting into this project for the past three years. This is why it is so hard to be away from her right now.<\/p>\n

The other reason it is so hard to be away from her right now is that I am on other buses \u2013 other buses that encompass longtime aspirations of traveling with a community on a caravan of social and environmental change. We\u2019re planting trees, performing, and painting signs at schools with kids, while running on straight vegetable oil, AND I get to make movies about it all. What fun!<\/p>\n

This whole caravan, called Fruit Tree Tour<\/a>, is major inspiration for the free tea bus. Adding different perspectives on everything from alternative energy to life in buses on the road to community living. I\u2019m inspired to take things I have learned, knowledge that has been passed on, wisdom that has been gained, and put it back into the tea bus. Yet, I still have a couple weeks here on the road. Long days of planting, filming, and editing have worn on me.<\/p>\n

On Sunday, however, I hosted a free tea party after dinner on the kitchen bus of Fruit Tree Tour. Most of the time on tour I don\u2019t feel like I can afford to spend time doing things other than my duties, but with advanced knowledge of this special day, and a slew of rain and storms that changed our schedule, I was able to steep some herbs for people. I forgot how much people like tea! It had been so wet, cold and stormy that a tea party couldn\u2019t have come at a more appropriate time. Even Leo, Supreme Allied Commander for Common Vision<\/a>, who thinks that tea causes wars and is an adamant coffee drinker, drank some tea and enjoyed it – although he felt obligated to try and slip in some right-wing rhetoric to play into the “tea party” phrase.<\/p>\n

I am so used to being free to make tea for lots of people any time I want; free to go where I please; free to take care of my responsibilities on my own time. This is not how it has been while on tour with Common Vision<\/a>. This is not to say that it hasn\u2019t been awesome, as it has, but it was good for me to be able to take a break from the office, where I stay so much of the time hunched over the computer editing videos, and bring my energy into the kitchen bus to share with people in a way that I find most satisfying \u2013 hot cuppas.<\/p>\n

For days after, people kept asking for massive amounts of tea to keep them warm, comfortable, and healthy. Ah, the thing I find most joyous other people also like. I think that everyone who has been on Fruit Tree Tour this year is part of the tribe that I consider close family \u2013 those who want to do good for both people and planet. To be with these kinds of people is great! However, I absolutely cannot wait to get back to Edna and serve tea to all the other kinds of people that represent the human race. It wont be too much longer, Edna. I promise.<\/p>\n

Oh yeah, and don’t forget to send in your stories of Springtime tea parties held in Edna’s honor!<\/p>\n


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