Ancient Tea

This morning I am enjoying a demitasse of strong spicy chai tea

(kind of like Turkish coffee!)

while gathering items for my esty shop.

I love old moldering books, don't you?

This gorgeous old book of Ancient History had shed its covers,

so I decided to bind it up with twine and call it good.

Before I tied up the book, I briefly flipped through the pages

so I could describe its contents in my listing.
To my delight someone had tucked in their penciled notes,

so I added them to the outside of the bundle.

There were more annotations inside.

I love marks left by previous readers.

But the best was yet to be discovered!

I found a butterfly,

carefully pressed between the yellowed pages,

forgotten by the book's previous owner.

And so I left it to be re-discovered by the next owner.

This lovely bundle of papers and hidden treasures

is for sale in my etsy shop.

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