New Traditions

Dr. George Grant often stresses the importance of celebrating the traditions of the past and melding them with local customs to form new rituals.

This past Friday midnight, Mary Gray, Fa-so-la-la, Shieldmaiden, Faintly Macabre, Muggles and I laid the dining table with a plaid tablecloth and spread Texas Low-tea. The china was varied: a cup and saucer that are part of Betsy Trotwood and The Irish Question's finest wedding dishes, a few of their second best wedding china saucers, Polish pottery cups, and one large tea mug. A Polish teapot held the Earl Gray, though Muggles had her own cup of Sleepytime tea. To tempt our sweet teeth, we also served chocolate fajitas. The tortillas were slightly crisp, very warm, and extremely buttery; they provided the perfect contrast to the half-melted milk chocolate chips in between tortillas. Thus we blended English High-tea with our late-night randomness, combined the Hispanic culture in Texas with the universal love of chocolate, and stirred to create our own diverse, unique tradition.