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Annie Finch

Mint Tea, Wine, & a Splash of Inspiration

Slowly I am absorbing Susun Weed’s lesson that the plants around us in abundance are offering themselves for our use.  For example, after thinking of mint as “invasive” for years and trying to contain it through violent wastefulness, instead I took her advice and started to consume it frequently, matching the pace at which it offers itself.  It’s easy to tear or cut off the tops to use the leaves, and the flowers that the bees love grow right back out of the shorter stems. Wonderful!  And what a great lesson and practice, to gather, in the proportion in which they are given, the other gifts of life, including poetic inspiration.
There’s still time to enjoy my favorite new drink: sun mint tea  . . .  pick and tear up a handful of mint leaves and soak in a jar of water in the sun for a while (I put plastic wrap on top to keep the bees out).  Even a few leaves and an hour or two makes water taste magnificent, a drink at once sweet, simple, and sophisticated, loved by both kids and adults—like drinking the sun.Which reminds me of a quote from Galileo, of all people, that someone told me today at a wonderful harvest feast, a grape harvesting and potluck extravaganza held at Maine Coast Vineyards, our friends’ local winery:  “Wine is sunshine held together by water and alcohol.” There was a lot of sunshine going around this wonderful harvest celebration, kids playing everywhere, generations mixing, work and relaxation–community grounded in food and the earth.

Longen Folk: The Parade, the Pilgrimage, the Poem
Wild Weeds Poetry Contest
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