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Thankfulness and Thanksgiving AS NOVEMBER ROLLS AROUND, WE'RE ANXIOUSLY AWAITING THE APPROACH OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON AND TIME SPENT WITH OUR LOVED ONES. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday, bringing with it a no-pressure time filled with great food, friends and family. The winding down of the year brings about a time of reflection for us, remembering
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everything we've done or accomplished in months past and looking back on family get-togethers: mornings watching the Thanksgiving Day parade and football, or afternoons spent curled up on the couch after gorging ourselves. We've all been blessed in one way or another in the past year, and now is the time to be grateful. As we press pause on the hustle of life and putting together a monthly magazine, we're especially thankful to look back on the past year and the stories from our community that have made what we do possible. This is the first year of our publication, and it has been such a blessing to be working every day to bring out the
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FEATURES 14 Traveling the World for Tea The Coley Family, Dominion Tea's Artisanal Ambassadors
20 It Takes a Villa Working Together to Address Loudoun’s Affordable Housing Crisis
26 Dream Big, Darling Lauren Barrett Takes a Leap of Faith
36 Give Thanks and Be Happy: Cindy Battino on How to Cultivate
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TRAVEL DESTINATION
Traveling the Wo
ARTICLE AND PHOTOGRAPHY HILLARY COLEY
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orld for Tea
TEA TREKKING WITH THE COLEY FAMILY, DOMINION TEA'S ARTISANAL AMBASSADORS
BEING A CONNOISSEUR OF TEA ISN’T THE SAME AS BEING A CONNOISSEUR OF WINE. Some of the world’s best oolong grows 7,600 miles away in Taiwan’s Alishan National Forest. It is produced by tea masters more interested in quality than quantity. Witnessing the process firsthand and renewing their all-important personal relationships with suppliers is critical to Dominion Tea entrepreneurs Hillary and David Coley. That’s what took this Purcellville couple and their then 10-year-old son D.J. on a journey late spring that was as intricately planned and executed as a well-brewed oolong. Their journey took them to China and Hong Kong at a time when trade talks with China and protests in Hong Kong were tense. Their first-person story distills the ancient art of tea production, cultural differences and the awakening of Chinese self-expression. Dominion Tea’s success lies in understanding and influencing manufacturing. Nobody buys tea raw because it goes bad in 36 hours. You buy a finished tea, so it needs to be produced in line with our values and the history of the individual tea. Tea grows natively in Taiwan and China, so the best producers don’t use pesticides or fertilizers, which we can verify in person. CONTINUED >
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The land where the tea grows is Tsou tribal land. We deal with a tea master, who learned the ancestral art of selecting and processing the best tea from her father as he had from his.” The second reason we go is to learn about the history of the tea, the culture that it comes from, and how the two have intertwined over centuries. And, frankly, we want to eat their food! To Alishan, you first travel from Taipei to Chiayi City, about halfway down the coast of Taiwan then take a train into the national forest. The land where the tea grows is Tsou tribal land. We deal with a tea master, who learned the ancestral art of selecting and processing
Tea hillsides of Alishan National Forest
the best tea from her father as he had from his. What sets these oolongs apart is their complex, clean flavors: creamy, floral and sometimes nutty, depending on whether or not they’re roasted. At higher elevation, tea plants get plenty of morning fog, which generally burns off by afternoon. Warm, misty conditions are great for tea. Even more than the tea-covered hillsides, we loved seeing the bright orange or yellow insect glue traps in the fields. Combined with myriad webs of the giant golden orb weaver, one of the largest spiders in the world, both gave visual proof that the tea is grown without insecticides. Once plucked, leaves wither for 24 hours while the tea master determines what type of oolong to make. The leaves are agitated for the next 24 hours in tumblers and rolling machines as the tea master samples it to discern its flavor. It is then roasted or dried and put into air-tight storage. The tea master prefers that it sit and a final finishing roast be applied a few months later. This resting time is said to be the key to creating the more complex flavors in the tea. Next, Jinjiang, Fujian Province, China is a short 45-minute flight from Taipei. From there we board a bullet train for Fuding, on the northern edge of Fujian Province, to catch the tail-end of the white tea harvest and production of jasmine green tea. Sandra, account manager for our supplier, shows us the tea fields and helps us tour the factory and Fuding. She says the Chinese government is building up Fuding as a tourist destination for middle-class Chinese, much as Napa Valley is a destination for wine tourists. This idea is more novel to the Chinese than to Americans because there, seemingly everyone grows tea the way Americans grow tomatoes. Because the government heavily influences land use and infrastructure investments, it’s a well-funded venture, sure to succeed eventually. In China, as in the U.S., family is important. We enjoyed a large family meal with Sandra and her family in Fuding celebrating the 16
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The Dragon Boat Festival: Thanksgiving with a twist
“Dish after dish of seafood, vegetable and tofu dishes were placed before us on a lazy Susan to share, as the family talked for hours.” Dragon Boat Festival, a holiday when tens of millions of people travel home to spend time with family. Dish after dish of seafood, vegetable and tofu dishes were placed before us on a lazy Susan to share, as the family talked for hours. Next stop was Quanzhou, the ancient starting point of the maritime Silk Road and the likely birthplace of Chinese civilization. Touring a 1,000-year-old mosque, the importance of preparing D.J. for the trip came into play. Our guide told us that nobody practices Islam in China, but D.J. could plainly see several women in hijabs and one woman laying out her prayer rug. I could tell the discrepancy was bugging him. We had cautioned him not to challenge Chinese officials, but to discuss his questions later in private, so we got an earful back at the hotel. When at last we headed for Hong Kong, it was via a high-speed train packed with children listening to American music from Sesame Street or loudly singing B-I-N-G-O, with the full encouragement of their parents and entirely without the use of earphones. Emerging from the train station at the cenTea factory workers pick out twigs and snails
tral Hong Kong metro station, we expected to thread through a maze of underground tunnels to the subway line for our hotel. But when we arrived, it was packed, no one moving. Curiously, everyone was wearing a white shirt and politely conversing. I tapped an English-looking person on the shoulder and said, “We just got into town; what’s happening?” He said, “We’re protesting the extradition bill.” None of that made any sense to us, but it was June 9, the first of CONTINUED >
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what would become 15 weeks of pro-democracy protests. We had quietly touched down in the middle of history! Part of experiencing another culture with your child is learning to appreciate what you have at home. Chinese people don’t discuss the law or politics with strangers, while we’ve elevated complaining about our government to an art form. D.J.’s experiences helped him understand more about the complexities of modern-day China and why the protesters in Hong Kong, who until 1997 were under U.K. rule, felt the need to speak out. We had our own concerns about visiting during increased trade tensions. We decided our engagement is with small business owners like us, looking to share in the history and culture of tea, which long predates today’s politics. When our vendors worried aloud if tariffs would hurt their business, we reminded them that our national leadership never lasts more than eight years. Even so, could you put a rush on that order? The
Chinese,
heavily
influenced
by
ancient traditions of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, have a much different concept of time. We speak of deadlines; they think in centuries. The literal time difference between our countries means we have to get up at 4 in the morning to text with our vendors in Asia who are 12 hours ahead, leaving an hour to negotiate before they go to bed. It then takes 14 to 21 days to process bills and payments and send product to the docks, and another 30 to 45 days for cargo to arrive by ship. Even airfreight takes a week. It’s not like ordering on Amazon. Though it looks like we were always moving, in fact, time slowed down for us in China, too. Meals, discussions—everything takes longer, even a perfectly brewed cup of tea.
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It Takes a Villa
Matthew Bowe and Paul Smith eye "Vacancies" at Weona Villa.
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ARTICLE MELINDA GIPSON | PHOTOGRAPHY ALEX ERKILETIAN
WORKING TOGETHER TO ADDRESS LOUDOUN’S AFFORDABLE HOUSING CRISIS
IF
YOU’RE
A
LONGTIME
RESIDENT
OF
coordinate design, permitting and construction
PURCELLVILLE, YOU “GET” OUR LITTLE HEAD-
of the housing the ministry hopes to build on the
LINE PUN. But if not, the next time you’re driving
acreage, which it has optioned to buy.
from Round Hill to Purcellville on the East Loudoun
Why Matt?
Street bypass, cast a glance northward. You can’t
“He has a stellar reputation for building homes
miss the iconic sign announcing the Weona Villa
in Loudoun, and he has compassion for people in
motel. The 7-acre erstwhile motel property has
need,” Paul says. “What we hope to build together
been vacant for a dozen years and now sports a
is something that is sympathetic to the Loudoun
home with a giant blue tarp covering a hole in the
landscape. The only difference is that ours will be
roof and eight abandoned motel rooms.
smaller than his typical client can afford.”
Clearly, beauty is in the eye of the beholder—or should we say, of the “visionary.”
By smaller, the team means 900- to 1,000-squarefoot cottage homes built in clusters of six around
As has been widely reported, Purcellville-based
courtyards. Each would have a front porch facing
Tree of Life Ministries Executive Director Paul
its own smaller community of homes, and everyone
Smith looked at the site and saw in it a means for
would be able to meet together at the renovated main
addressing the shortfall of affordable housing for the
house for community gatherings. With characteristic
disabled and elderly struggling to stay in Loudoun
enthusiasm, Paul is already talking about organizing
County as home prices rise. Tree of Life serves this
teams of schoolchildren or scout troops to craft a
population already in a number of ways, reaching
community garden to supply fresh produce to the
out to the needy with food, life-skills training, shelter,
residents and of using the community center for for
healthcare and other relief as a Christian ministry.
the elderly and disabled adults to meet together.
“Because we work with up to 20,000 annually,
“I jumped at the chance to create a small com-
some of whom are seniors on a fixed income and
munity and meet a housing need that isn’t being
the disabled, we know the heartache that they face
met,” Matt says.
in trying to find housing. We’re passionate about trying to help meet that need,” Paul says. It takes 28 separate ministries, 33 affiliated
Such initiative is “trademark Matt,” says Therese Cashen, executive director of Loudoun Habitat for Humanity.
Christian churches and more than 500 active volun-
“He brings to our board an understanding of
teers to collectively meet these needs, which is why
home construction, even though he builds totally
“community” is one of the ministry’s core values.
different houses than we do. He knows the zoning
“We want to be collaborative,” in devising a solution to the problem, he explains.
and permitting process and brings all that expertise to our team as well.”
Which is how Matthew Bowe (MatthewBowe
And, she adds, “He’s a man of very deep faith. I
DesignBuild.com), a builder whose business
think some of Matt’s connection to wanting to give
typically consists of designing and building dream
back is because of his faith.”
homes for wealthy residents of Loudoun County,
Matt’s willingness to “roll up his sleeves and do
finds himself standing out in a field of dreams with
something,” has helped Habitat expand the Home
Paul under a rusty old sign in Round Hill. Paul says
Repair program to support disabled veterans and
he reached out to Matt to assemble a team to help
the elderly stay in homes that are sometimes as CONTINUED >
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1.
costly to maintain as to own. Therese says
“I am a soldier on the ground contribut-
this broader approach has helped the orga-
ing what I can. My involvement is a spiritual
nization widen its impact.
response that flows from a recognition of
For example, the county recently asked
the immense blessings in my life,” Matt
Habitat for assistance to provide a home for
says. “Really, I am doubly blessed in that I
a resident of Howardsville who has no water
get to build awesome high-end projects for
or indoor plumbing. Habitat is partnering
affluent clients who ask us to deliver their
with Loudoun County to build a home for
dream home, and I also get to be involved in
this individual and connect another existing
and experience these life-changing projects
home to water and plumbing.
that serve those in need.”
“Water and indoor plumbing are critical to
What’s next? On Oct. 10, just as we went
safe and healthy living, and no one in Loudoun
to press, Round Hill planned to hold a public
County should be without these,” she says.
hearing to help the council decide whether
Matt accompanied Therese to help evalu-
to amend its own comprehensive plan to
ate the situation and immediately launched
extend its utility service area for assisted liv-
an effort to explore how Habitat could help.
ing facilities or other identified housing gaps,
“The scope of this project isn’t typical,”
such as senior and workforce housing.
Therese says, “but the organization’s goal
“Our particular desires are attracting an
is to grow from helping to provide just one
assisted living facility or creative options
or two homes per year to 20 per year by
for senior or workforce housing,” says
2025. That will take millions of dollars and
Scott Ramsey, Round Hill’s mayor. “We do
a lot of creativity!”
not want more townhomes or additional
Inevitably, a search for solutions always comes back to the question of who exactly benefits from more affordable housing.
traditional single-family residential. Those options already are well-supplied locally.” Amending its plan wouldn’t mean auto-
“Some of the people who could be occu-
matically extending utilities to the Weona
pying such housing could be our young
Villa parcel but would let the town approve
adult children that are just fresh out of
extensions on a case-by-case basis.
school or people with careers that serve
If
the
Weona
Villa
project
were
the community but can’t afford to live in it,”
approved, it would then submit plans for
Matt says. “Our teachers, law enforcement
approval by the county board of supervi-
and fire personnel—they all live out in West
sors, a year-long process. Construction
Virginia. That seems a shame to me.”
could begin in the spring of 2021 in
The opportunity to live and work in the same place you send your kids to school— “that’s real community,” Matt says. Belief in a secure and stable home life
phases, starting with renovation on the existing structures. So, as we said, it takes a “Villa.” Opportunities
to
serve
abound.
New
as a foundation for a healthy society is an
volunteers for Tree of Life should attend
idea integral to Matt’s own upbringing. A
the group’s next Volunteer Introduction
first-generation Irish American, he watched
Program training on Nov. 14 at the Tree
his parents work hard, buy a home, then
of Life Center, 210 N. 21st St., Unit D, in
add onto it as their family grew.
Purcellville, perhaps to experience the
“Our house was full of family; it was full
ministry’s Thanksgiving meal for 200 at St.
of love. I know I benefited greatly from that
Paul’s Church in Purcellville. And, finally,
stability, and I like doing that for others.”
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on Habitat’s local construction projects at LoudounHabitat.org/News.
7.
2.
3.
5.
6.
8. 1. Raising money outside Loudoun Habitat ReStore 2. Tree of Life renovation project 3. Paul and volunteers at food pantry 4. Loudoun Habitat renovates for a disabled vet 5. Habitat provides accessibility 6. Habitat brings another family home. 7. Another Habitat homeowner 8. One of Habitat's 50 local homeowners
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Dream Big, Darling HOW GETTING OUT OF YOUR COMFORT ZONE HELPS YOU GROW
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A view to dream big
THE
WINE
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Zipline to self-awareness
Then,
without
warning,
we
were
whisked into Hummers and deposited
“I NOW KNOW THAT IT’S NEVER TOO LATE TO BECOME WHAT YOU MIGHT HAVE BEEN. I SHOW GRATITUDE AND REFLECT ON THE THINGS THAT WILL MAKE ME HAPPY EACH MORNING.”
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Cindy Battino and Family
HOLIDAYS TEND TO RUN THE GAMUT OF GREAT
delays, traffic, weather, all sorts of complications, and
TO GRUESOME, EVEN AT THANKSGIVING, THE
you have to be ready to deal with the unexpected.”
TRADITIONAL CELEBRATION OF ABUNDANCE
Holidays are a time of excess in food, drink and
IN OUR LIVES. We go overboard planning, expect
emotion. When families get together, going outside
too much and/or prepare too much or not enough
for a walk and fresh air is good for everyone, espe-
so that, of course, the airports are jammed, rental
cially when you have all those people and their ener-
cars are scarce and/or you miss your flight. It takes
gies packed into one house.
effort to enjoy any holiday, especially if you’re doing most of the work, but here’s the bottom line: You’re
Children especially are vulnerable to the energy generated by a holiday.
worth whatever it takes so that you not only sur-
“I like kids to be
vive your festivities, but you also thrive on feeling
kids and to play,
that you truly have enough to celebrate a truly
instead
happy Thanksgiving.
in front of DVDs
Of course, we’re only human. Cindy Battino of
for
of
hours,”
sitting Cindy
CINDY OFFERS PROGRAMS AT EVERY
Transformational Healing in Middleburg knows
emphasizes. “Make
PRICE POINT TO HELP PEOPLE FIND
all about the good, the bad and the ugly when it
sure they have an
MORE HAPPINESS IN THEIR LIVES:
comes to sharing your best self throughout the fes-
appropriate place to
tive season. A survivor of extreme holidays, she’s
let off steam. If there
+ First Tuesday at 6 p.m. at the Salamander
experienced in helping people to keep their cele-
isn’t a suitable yard,
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brations as happy as possible.
take them to the
Happy.” Happy hour with a special theme is
“Thanksgiving offers a lot of great things. People
nearest playground.”
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want to be around family and friends. Good food is a
The big question
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is: What expecta-
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a better frame of mind,” Cindy says. “For all the good
tions do we have
viduals and couples.
things, however, there are the things that can sabotage
for happy holidays?
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the joy of the occasion. We tend to drink too much
Years
alcohol. We tend to forget how old we are so that when
defined
we get back to family situations, we automatically
day” as one when
revert into old familial patterns and we act very young.”
“everything
ago,
Cindy
that took you to the C Suite but put you in
a
“good
the doghouse at home.”
goes
You can plan to the nth degree or plan nothing. So
smoothly and I get everything checked off my list,”
many factors can affect the success of your happy
she recalls. In practice, that didn’t happen very often.
holiday, and travel especially is a wild card.
Now she defines a “good day” as one “when I can
“If we deprive ourselves of sleep and put ourselves
manage and overcome every obstacle put in my
into stressful situations—not expecting the unex-
path with grace. The hard part is doing it with grace.
pected, coping with long lines at the airport, sleeping
A day when everything goes smoothly and I check
on an air mattress—we’re going to pay for it,” Cindy
everything off my list is a gift from God—those are
says. “No matter how well you prepare, there might be
the days I really celebrate!”
CONTINUED >
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A good day is one when I can manage and overcome every obstacle put in my path with grace."
Thanksgiving fits into this transformational concept of rede-
Often, it’s fear of the unknown, and that’s where someone like me can
fining a good day as one in which you handle everything that
help people to get unstuck. I teach relationship skills, how to speak
comes your way with an attitude of gratitude. Everyone can learn
your truth, how to communicate. I help by instilling self-confidence,
to feel more self-confidence and self-worth, celebrate having just
helping you get to know yourself including what your fears are, what
enough, and recognize and share their happiness with others.
makes you happy—in short, understanding what makes you tick.
More goal-oriented people who find it tough to reframe their thinking may well need a happiness coach like Cindy. “I’m a nudge; that’s why I love being a coach,” Cindy says.
Thanksgiving. People always say happiness is priceless, but so many
“There are all sorts of ways of finding happiness in your life.
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