lummi island wine tasting April 4 ’25
Wine Tasting Friday April 4 ’25 4-6 pm
spring quince always a welcome sign…!
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Honey, Wheat, Lemon & Poppy seeds – Made with a poolish that ferments some of the flour, yeast and water overnight. This results in a very active pre-ferment which is mixed the next day with the final ingredients which includes a nice mix of bread flour and fresh milled whole wheat. Some honey, poppy seeds and freshly grated lemon peel round out the flavors. – $5/loaf.
Rye w/ Currants, Pumpkin Seeds & Cracked Coriander – Made with a starter fed with rye instead of wheat flour, the final dough includes bread flour and freshly milled rye flour, some molasses for sweetness and pumpkin seeds, currants and cracked coriander seed make for an interesting flavor profile – $5/loaf
and SORRY, PASTRY this week is reserved for participants in the annual Island Road cleanup beginning at the Grange Saturday , April 5th for annual Island road cleanup!
Island Bakery has developed a rotation cycle of several dozen breads and pastries. Each Sunday the Bakery emails the week’s bread offering to the mailing list. Orders received before 5 pm Tuesday (and not already claimed!) will be available for pickup at the wine shop each Friday from 4:00 – 5:30 pm. Contact us at least two weeks before your visit to get on the bread list!
This week’s $10 Wine Tasting
Laurenz V Kremstal Sophie Singing Gruner Veltliner $15 Austria
Sustainably produced; youthful nose of orange blossoms, straw, and apples; spritzy on the medium-bodied palate, with notes of yellow grapefruit and a refreshing crisp acidity for a sunny afternoon.
Idilico Tempranillo ’21 Washington $19
Made in Washington in the Rioja style, with aromas of leather, forest floor and balsamic notes wrapped around a core of red fruit, notes of fresh dried herbs, sweet spice and red currant; medium bodied with juicy mouthfeel, soft tannin, and a lingering finish.
chinon wine region https://www.wine-searcher.com/regions-chinon
Alain de la Treille Chinon Cab Franc ’22 France $21
From Loire valley’s alluvial gravel & yellow limestone terraces along the Vienne, offering complex minerality and juicy, spicy flavors that dance from plum to cassis, game, earth, and tobacco, all with a delicacy that speaks of the village’s cool conditions.”
Economics of the Heart: Not Even Billionaire Hungry Ghosts Can Ever Feel Nourished
Followers of this blog will be familiar with our numerous rants about the economic incompetence of Republicans in general and Maga in particular. After nearly 100 years of practical evidence that, yes, in fact, the economy is a circular flow of exchange in which everyone digs, builds, grows, finds, fishes, or otherwise creates a product or service that contributes value. That value manifests through exchange in markets, contracts, purchases, and rentals. Most people have roles as both producers and consumers, borrowers and lenders.
Exchange only happens when seller and buyer feel a sense of mutual satisfaction from an exchange. The buyer shops for the lowest price and the seller holds out for the highest price. Metaphorically, picture a huge table where everyone alive has a seat and a stock of skills and assets which are passed to them from their right and they pass on as they choose to their left to maximize their own well-being. Some need to keep a big pot in front of them, and some prefer very little or even nothing.
And like any game, all of this operates under a set of rules. As economist Joan Robinson aptly put it, “Every economic system requires a set a values, a set of rules, and a will in the people to carry them out.” Well nowadays, some at the top want it all, and don’t feel like passing it around anymore. And that threatens the whole system.
The ugly truth is that for as long as there have been human beings some proportion (males in particular) can never get enough (wealth, power, adoration ) to feel secure or comfortable. Like the robber barons of the early 20th century, they are driven to accumulate more and more, like Disney’s Scrooge in his money bin. Theirs is not so much a political movement as a psychological disorder, and the people who have it have been pissed off at “liberals” since the 1929 stock collapse that they caused brought a global economic Depression.
Since the end of WWII there has been a continual political tension between those whose definition of “enough” in a Maslovion sense is modest, and those who are quite incapable of experiencing “enoughness,” either of love, or esteem, or deference.
Picture a mom with her little son looking up at her and asking, “Mommy, it is true Republicans have hearts of stone?” And she is saying, “No dear, it’s not…Republicans don’t have hearts…”(yeah, that’s my mom and me above in 1952..!.)
Seriously, how else can you explain the constant need of a handful of billionaires to own ever more wealth, more even than many entire nations; who are still pissed off about even a modestly graduated income tax, and who are now willfully destroying our country and the global economy to get even more wealth? In Buddhist terms they qualify as Hungry Ghosts, creatures with ravenous appetites but cursed with no ability to take in nourishment no matter how much they swallow.
In a world of scarcity, hunger, and misery for hundreds of millions of people, there is no morally acceptable rationale for not following the old adage “from each according to ability; to each according to need.”
Which brings us to this moment in human history where a small group of ego-centric white men are claiming Divine Right, in the name of their Authoritarian Jesus, as the chosen ones to tear down our 250-year old democracy, abandon our Constitution, crash the global economy, and doom human civilization and our entire planet to the climate-driven extinction of life itself– all for a few more shekels in their money bins that will not make them happy. Does Elon Musk look like a happy man with his ketamine?
The Reality of this moment, right now, in early April of the year we humans call 2025, is that a small bunch of angry, bullying men of cruelty (beaten into them by damaged fathers…?) are actively engaged in destroying our democracy, crashing the global economy, and inflicting enormous suffering on our entire planet.
It has to stop, and we all must all work together to make it happen.
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