Collected Item: “Tea Time Together”
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Tea Time Together
What sort of object is this: text story, photograph, video, audio interview, screenshot, drawing, meme, etc.?
photograph, text story
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I am very close with my mom, and used to regularly visit my grandmother, but I moved across the country right before Covid-19 and was unable to visit this year. I was feeling extremely homesick during the fall, as my grandmother and I have birthdays near each other and usually celebrate together but we were unable to do so this year. While my grandmother and I did send letters and cards to each other and I facetime with my mom fairly often, I was still experiencing a feeling of loss and a lack of connection. To bring us together, my mom proposed that the three of us all use the same tea advent calendar to celebrate the holidays. We all got the same mug, the same tea set, and spent the month of December enjoying tea from three different places, which allowed us to feel a sense of togetherness, even when we are apart.
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HST580, ASU, family, tea, holidays, togetherness, lonely, homesick
Who originally created this object? (If you created this object, such as photo, then put "self" here.)
Julia Jensen
Give this story a date.
2020-12-01