lummi island wine tasting March 13 ’26
Open Fridays 4-6 pm
Setting sun edges toward Spring Equinox near Orcas Island’s north end…
Friday Bread This Week
Spelt Levain – Spelt is an ancient wheat w/ a nutty, slightly sweet flavor and is made with a levain before blending with bread flour, spelt flour, fresh milled whole spelt and whole rye. – $5/loaf
Le Pave d’Autrefois –aka “old paving stones.” A ciabatta like bread which is simply divided into approximate squares from a mix of bread flour, whole wheat, rye and buckwheat for a hearty whole grain goodness. -$5/loaf (or paving stone) $5/loaf
…and pastry this week…
Pain aux Raisin – Made with the same laminated dough as croissants. The dough is rolled out, spread with pastry cream and sprinkled with a mix of golden raisins and dried cranberries that have been soaked in sugar syrup. Rolled up and sliced before baking. These are my favorites! As always, quantities are limited, be sure to get your order in early! -$5/loaf
This week’s wine tasting
Chapoutier Belleruche Blanc ’24 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.
Zenato ‘Alanera’ Rosso Veronese ’23 Italy $17
Dark, inky color; rich, focused nose of ripe berries, dusty oak and waxy vanilla bean. On the palate delivers extracted flavors of cherries, strawberry, clay, and hints of crushed mint, soft tannins, and rounded finish.
Alto Moncayo Zisnero Garnacha Spain $16
Ruby red; aromas of cherries and currants; pleasant freshness with notes of laurel and toast, balanced acidity, lingering palate.
Economics of the Heart: Stop! Enough Already! Let’s make US the Good Guys Again!
Olympia Theater Bangor ME c 1921
Being a kid in post-WWII 1950’s America was a kind of heaven. We lived on a nondescript, worn/tidy residential street in Bangor, ME with very little traffic because of the steep hill at one end (blocked off for sledding in winter!).
It was quiet and safe, with lots of other kids, numerous vacant lots, trees to climb, and lots of space to play (including the street). It was home.
Somewhere in that sense of safety and hominess was the seldom-discussed, yet always vaguely present, fact that there had been a horrible war that lasted for years. A lot of people had been killed or injured, but we had been the Good Guys, it was over, and we had won. It was a huge Relief that it was over, and that sense of relief somehow pervaded our lives. There was kindness, warmth, safety, and a sense of belonging. There was also an Air Force base on the edge of town, with familiar and also somehow comforting sounds of takeoffs and landings.
The picture above is of a dilapidated old movie theater about a mile’s walk toward downtown. Every Saturday there would be a matinee for kids with a cartoon, a weekly serial episode ( Superman, Capt Marvel, more) and a movie ( usually a western). Imagine 200 kids shouting YAAyyyyyyyy for the Good Guys and BOOoooooing the Bad Guys.
NOBODY wanted to be one of those despicable, sneering, deeply cruel Bad Guys (Black hats!) that enjoyed making people suffer. The many touches of chivalry in films of the forties and fifties were a product of, and also an aim to preserve that post-war sense of relief, safety, national unity, and hope for the future.
Today’s reality is that the Bad Guys are now in control. As we have suggested many times over the past ten years, the domestic war against US democracy was evolving since the New Deal in 1933, and finally planted its most essential seed in 1987 when Reagan’s FCC removed the requirement that news broadcasts must present balanced views or every public issue.
That opened the floodgates of 24/7 broadcasting on television, social media, rural radio, and right-wing talk shows of deliberate media lies, character assassinations, and ridiculous accusations against “wokeness.”
We are now well into the second year of Project 2025’s plan to eliminate in its entirety the Constitutional government structure which has served us well for 250 years, and replace it with some version of a white male-dominated Christian police state in which a handful of white, wealthy, “Christian” men enjoy dictatorial power over everyone and everything. This goal illustrates precisely the massive hubris which made Jefferson insist on a “wall of separation between Church & State,” a concept earlier promoted by Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke.
They have invaded Venezuela, kidnapped its dictatorial leader (one of their own!) murdered hundreds of nameless boaters in international waters, deployed hordes of heavily armed, masked gunmen to bring fear and chaos to the streets of our largest cities, and of late are whimsically bombarding Iran.
But don’t be fooled by these chest-pounding distractions. Every insult, shot, bomb, and rocket fired in our name by these traitors is a treason against our 250-yr old nation of, by, and for its people. THEY fight only for $$ego.
WE fight for some 400 million inner children needing something to be yelling YAAYYYY about!
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