On Tue, 18 Jun 1996, Richard D. Lawson wrote:

Say, to those of you who have been following my "Thy Inward Love"  >
series, I got a question... > > In part 8, I described a tea ceremony.  I
left a lot of stuff out, > because I thought it might get tedious. > > I'm
curious; did you find the bit about the tea ceremony slow?  Should I > add
more?  Would it interest you to know all the details of a tea > ceremony,
or would it just turn you off to read all that stuff? > > Let me know, if
you would.  Thanks. 

The tea ceremony looks fine. Not too long, not too short.
Of course I've heard that the shortest tea ceremony takes 45 mins or so :)