lummi island wine tasting jan 31 ’25
Wine Tasting Friday Jan 31 4-6 pm
Jan 20 wine shop observation of Martin Luther King Day…
(candle-lit due to temporary power outage…a good time had by all and
a distracting relief from “other matters most devoutly to be eschewed.. 🙂
Friday Bread Pickup This Week
Sorry, no Bread This Week… 
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
Schmitt Pinot Blanc ’17 Alsace $19
Creamy-smooth nose of subdued pear notes adds an earthy element on the palate and adds an earthy element toward a dry, smooth finish.
Argento Malbec ’20 Argentina $13
From organically grown grapes; deep purple hue; inviting aromas of red berries and flowers, and flavors of plum and sweet blackberry; finishes with ripe, balanced tannins– way over-delivers for its modest price.
Tre Donne D’Arc Langhe Rosso ’22 Italy $20
Blend of oak-aged Barbera, and Pinot Nero with unoaked Dolcetto and Freisa that makes for a lively, fresh wine with rich, moody fruit, bracing purity, and fascinating depth.
Economics of the Heart: La Résistance a commencé…
St Mary’s school Bangor, Me
My mother was a third-generation Irish Catholic, and my father’s parents were Polish immigrants, also Catholic. I went to a Catholic school in Bangor, Maine from “subprimary” through second grade. My teacher the first two years was an attractive, kind, cheerful, and pleasant young nun named Sister Cecilia whom I recall with some affection.
The three-story school building was of very solid stone, with somewhat dim corridors and a little army of habited nuns aging from young and charming to old and crotchety that were kinda witchy and scary. From time to time some kid would do something wrong and get sent upstairs to the principal to get “the Strap”…a spanking with a leather covered steel bar. The kids would come back sobbing. (gulp!)
The windowless stone corridors always had a threatening element of darkness, of hidden rules with grave implications, and cause for some memorable nightmares in which the school was haunted…and the nagging fear that if you died without going to confession you could go to Hell or purgatory and suffer horrible tortures. After all, you’d think, the pictures in the little kids’ catechism showed them with little black sin-dots would grow on their white, sinless hearts every time they said a dirty word or did a million other bad things you didn’t even know were sins. Heavy stuff for a little kid…!
It was therefore a huge relief to start third grade in a modern, light-filled public school with well-educated, kind, interesting teachers of both genders in ordinary clothes. For a 6 yr old it was like being set free from a dark, scary prison. The teachers included many WWII vets and wives, kind and generous with their time. Occasionally they would talk about Bible stories as stories, not “religion.”
My takeaway from those experiences has for a long time been that there has to be a line between religion and politics. The glue that holds people in Maga’s grip is a toxic blend of personal grievances, built on 35 years of deliberate lies from right wing media convincing lazy minds that liberals, gays, Democrats, immigrants, blacks, women, the poor are coming to take their stuff. These Maggites claim to be “Christian,” but instead of aspiring toward kindness, compassion, love, patience, clarity, and wisdom, they preach meanness, malice, cruelty, selfishness, spite, hatefulness, maliciousness, hostility, and violence in the name of the same mythic Jesus (you know, the one that drove out the money-lenders). How does that make sense??
Now only ten days into the new Maggite assault on our Constitutional rights, environment, economy, safety, and long-held national values, we are beginning to see increasingly organized resistance against Project 2025’s corporate-funded, autocracy-aspiring, angry white supremacist aspirations from many State Attorneys General, environmentalists, women, veterans, and everyone else committed to our 250-year old Constitutional government.
It’s gonna be a long battle, but la Résistance is already gearing up, as shown for example in the following recommended articles:
link to Bishop Budde’s NPR interview
link to Olivia Troye note about Kash Patel
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