lummi island wine tasting feb 7 ’25
Wine Tasting Friday Feb 7 4-6 pm
….time to Reinvent Elephant Repellent
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Pain Meunier –also known as miller’s bread and was developed to honor the miller who mills the wheat. Made with pre-fermented dough it contains all portions of the wheat berry: flour, fresh milled whole wheat, cracked wheat and wheat germ. Always a favorite and a great all around bread. It makes the best toast! – $5/loaf
Sonnenblumenbrot – aka Sunflower Seed Bread; made with a pre-ferment that ferments a portion of the flour, water, salt and yeast overnight before mixing the final dough. with freshly milled rye, then loaded up with toasted sunflower seeds and some barley malt syrup for sweetness.. a typical German seed bread- $5/loaf
and pastry this week…
Kouign Aman “with : Made ” with a twist” from the same traditional laminated french pastry as croissants, with a levain for sourdough flavor and some pre-fermented dough for strength. Rolled out w/ sugar, black sesame seeds,and ginger, cut into squares and baked in cupcake tins to caramelize sugar and butter for a delicious, crunchy, delightful pastry. – 2/$5
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 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 Wine Tasting
Chapoutier Belleruche Blanc ’22 France $14
Delicious blend of grenache blanc and roussanne; fragrant and perfumed with a light, grilled-lemon note over ripe melon, and a lingering palate of rich white peach.
Marietta Old Vine Red ’22 California $16
Zinfandel-based red blend from Geyserville with lovely bright plum fruit, dark and focused notes of briar and black tea, a perfect balance of big flavor and vibrant sophistication, with medium body, mouth of sweet spice and velvety tannins to pair with almost any meal or occasion.
Natura Carmenere ’22 Chile $14
Attractive bouquet with cherry aromas and hints of chocolate and spice. Big volume taste on the palate with soft round tannins and a firm, well-balanced structure. Good balance between fruit and oak with a long, juicy finish. 100% organically grown grapes.
Economics of the Heart: Attack of the Red Meanies
The Beatles’ zany Yellow Submarine animated film came out in 1968 and was instantly a global hit. The Bad Guys in the film were named after the blue meanies species of psychedelic psilocybin mushroom. (film clip). In the past week the Republican Senate has approved most of Magaman’s breathtakingly unqualified Cabinet appointments; the richest man in the world has dismantled core elements of our national security data protection apparatus; and the new AG’s first order of business is to proclaim the beginning of an illegal purge against all federal employees whose duties during the Biden Administration happened to include work on the Jan 6 investigations.
We have all seen the many interviews and hearings with these appointees, and seen that not a single one is qualified for their specific positions or a high-level security clearance. Meanwhile, Teslaman has already trashed much of our national security apparatus in a hubris-heavy unauthorized raid. Similarly, most of the Maga ‘lawmakers’ (we use the term very loosely) turned two blind eyes to the irresponsible lunacy of the Project 2025 coup now in progress.
The only consistent philosophy behind the current coup is some shared Anger of Unfulfilled Entitlement. We see it in each of the Cabinet nominees and across a wide swath of Republicans in the House since about 2006.
It is not lack of intelligence that disqualifies them; it is their complete lack of Honor. No rationalization they use to justify their current incarnation as deliberate traitors to their oaths absolves them from the damage they mean to inflict on their fellow citizens in particular and on a stable world order in general. It’s been only two weeks and already our allies are backing away from us.
These conspirators will never be content just to get rich and powerful. Just as Musk never seems able to come to rest and savor his accomplishments, their common thread is an unconscious conviction that no matter much they own or control, they will never get the emotional nourishment they need.
The sad irony for them and for all of us is not that they don’t have enough already; it’s that early childhood experiences with parents convinced them they would never get the love they need. In Buddhism there is a mealtime ritual of setting aside seven grains of rice for the Hungry Ghosts, beings who are unable to take in nourishment no matter how much they eat.
So…the Blue Meanies probably didn’t have any conscious reason to be mean. No one has a viable reason to to be mean. But when children despair their loneliness for long enough, the unconscious core belief behind Red Meanie faces is a small child’s hidden expectation that “I will never get the love I need.” And even when they get it they can’t let it in.
So we must of course have compassion for all these meanies. But that doesn’t mean we don’t have to stop them in their tracks.
May all beings be free from suffering,
Enjoy the ease of well-being,
Be free from fear and violence,
Be stewards of all living things,
With kindness, compassion, love,
patience, clarity, and wisdom…
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