After a challenging week of midterms my daughter, Elizabeth(16) and I celebrated with lunch at our favorite restaurant, Din Tai Fung. As we were being seated, we noticed a mother and daughter sitting near us. The daughter looked to be eight years old. Both the mother and daughter were looking down at their smartphones. Elizabeth was disturbed by this as she was facing in the direction of that view. After I poured our cups of Oolong tea, she said, "Mom, say something, anything to distract me from noticing them." I was happy to break the delicious silence of the spell the steamy tea had cast.