lummi island wine tasting april 17 ’25
Open Friday 4-6 pm
Our old Douglas Maple getting tired… 🙁
(click link below to see photo ‘cuz I got no freakin’ idea how to move an image from Google to here!!)
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Friday Bread This Week
Multi Grain Levain – Made with a sourdough culture and flavorful mix of bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat and rye, a nice mixture of flax, sesame sunflower and pumpkin seeds, some oatmeal and a little honey for some sweetness. $5/loaf
Polenta Levain – Another sourdough, with the sourdough starter is fed and built up over several days, then mixed with bread flour and polenta in the final dough mix… a nice rustic loaf with great corn flavor. – $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Brioche Almond Buns – From a delicious brioche dough full of eggs, butter and sugar, rolled out and spread with an almond cream filling made with lots more butter, sugar and eggs as well as almond flour. 2/$5
This week’s wine tasting
Juggernaut Chardonnay ’22 Sonoma $17
Barrel fermented; aromas of apple, Asian pear and lemon meringue open to rich, lingering flavors of stone fruit, honeysuckle, and yellow plum, with finishing notes of vanilla, butter cream and hints of clove.
Cannonball Cab Sauv ’22 California $16
Aromas of concentrated dark berries, cola, vanilla cream, mocha, and notes of dried fennel are pronounced on the nose. The flavors on the palate are juicy, lush red plum, cranberry, citrus zest, and savory herbs linger on the finish.
Garzon Single Vineyard Albarino ’20 Uruguay $34
Medium-bodied white wine with dense texture, rich, elegant aromas, and succulent flavors of pineapple, lemon zest, chamomile, sea salt, stone fruits, and a bright, tangy acidity, pleasing creamy texture, and deep flavors!
Economics of the Heart: We’re All ‘Rolling Stones’ Now
For no particular reason, while musing about our current grifty/grafty federal government, some lyrics from Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone” came to mind. Way back in that summer of ’65, our group of USNA classmates rented a cottage on Balboa Island near Newport Beach, where we enjoyed a pleasant week of sunning, body surfing, and partying. Because the song was both a full six minutes long and a huge hit, it seemed to be on air so much of the time that we pretty much knew most of the words by heart…but didn’t think a lot about what it might mean.
The Wikipedia article linked above discusses in some detail various interpretations of the complex, nagging lyrics of the song, supposedly addressed to a young woman who has it all and step by step loses it all. So there is something here about immaturity or hubris or creating negative karma on her part (and a mocking lack of sympathy from the singer!)
But the song also gives a nod to the freedom of her reaching a state of “got nothing to lose, invisible now, you got no (more) secrets to conceal…” (not a lot of consolation!)
So there is something about the song that speaks of the upside down-ness of our current Federal “Government.” Everywhere we look in this “Administration” we see lying, cheating, lashing out, inflicting pain, stealing, and sadistic cruelty against the many by a comparative handful of mean-spirited, angry, lying, and sadistic sociopaths who genuinely seem to take satisfaction and pleasure from making others suffer.
These goals have been clear since the publication of Project 2025 way back in February of 2024 by the Heritage Foundation. The resulting 2025 Cabinet selections were not concerned with the intelligence or experience of the candidates as long as they were loyal, angry, loyal, selfish, reliably cruel. And did we mention loyal..?
Project 2025 requires only a will to do whatever it takes to crush and loot our 250-yr-old Constitutional democracy completely and replace it with an autocratic government completely in service to a small cadre of angry, white, extraordinarily wealthy, selfish, and cruel men. Their thirst for unbounded authority and hurting as many people as possible, as much as possible, for as long as possible, is insatiable. Take, for example, the abject cruelty of Maga’s Ice Police, or what Stephan Miller thinks of as “the taking that keeps on giving.”
Digging elsewhere in old song lyrics, we find a similar conflict of values in Leonard Cohen’s* “Bird on a Wire:”
Every day more and more Americans are rebelling against the cruelty, the lying, the stealing, and working together to take back our Constitution, our equality, our protections, and our way of life. At some very deep and basic level we all revere and are very pleasantly accustomed and committed to our freedoms, our reliable Constitutional protections under just laws and a national community of mutual respect and support.
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