lummi island wine tasting sept 11-12 ’26
This weekend open Friday & Saturday 4-6 pm
Maryhill’s Stonehenge
Friday Bread This Week
Sorry…our baker is away this week… 🙁
This week’s wine tasting
Riebeek Pinotage ’21 South Africa $14
Cold soaked overnight, fermented on the lees in 80% French and 20% American oak, and blended with unoaked wine to enhance fresh fruity flavors.
La Atalaya del Camino ’20 Spain $15
Intense aromas, fruit, and elegance on the nose with a distinct spiciness and a touch of floral notes. Rich and meaty structure, with rich dark fruits and hints of spice. Smooth and pleasant long finish.
Stoller Helen’s Pinot Noir ’19 Oregon $50; sale $30 !!
Elegant nose of heady floral, baking spice, and red fruit, notes of earth, and black raspberry; layered and vibrant palate carries red fruit flavors and a ferrous minerality through a long finish.
New Paintings by Anne Gibert
Last weekend we took down Anne’s paintings that have graced the wine shop since, we think, Covid.
In their place we have a wide range of newer ones of all sizes and subjects we think you will enjoy!
Economics of the Heart: What Everybody Knows
A classic tune by our old friend Leonard Cohen tells a story that fits our present moment with precision.
It begins like this:
Everybody knows that the dice are loaded
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed
Everybody knows the war is over
Everybody knows the good guys lost
Everybody knows the fight was fixed
The poor stay poor and the rich get rich
That’s how it goes…and Everybody knows
The “mid-term election” is what is supposed to be happening in every state across our country in November. But Everybody knows that’s not what will be happening, because for the past two years our federal government has been staffed with people specifically chosen because they are committed to the complete destruction of our Constitutional Government.
Before our eyes the last two years have unfolded on a schedule and trajectory laid out in great detail in Project 2025, which is very clear on its commitment to creating an Authoritarian State where all power is wielded by a handful of multi-billionaires whose only truly remarkable characteristics seem to be a complete lack of any semblance of empathy, honor, loyalty, kindness, or fairness.
On the contrary, we have seen over and over in the ten exhausting years of 24/7 domination of public media by a stunningly small, hateful, lying, mean-spirited, and cruel white men committed to turning America into a Christian dystopia where all wealth and authority is in their hands, voting will disappear altogether; women will become completely subordinate to husbands they don’t get to choose; and people of color will be expelled or exterminated to make room for, you know, Jesus.
Almost certainly the coming election will be rigged, as it was in 2016, 2020, and 2024. The Tweetster gets 24/7 media coverage while he dozes, lies, plays golf, and punishes everyone because he can and because he loves their pain. And pretty much every Republican goes along with its inherent racism, meanness, and cruelty.
This has all become an active Civil War, already hurting broad communities of the most vulnerable among us, including school kids, immigrants, people of color, women, the poor, handicapped, or “different” in any way from White, Racist, Christian, and worth at least $hundreds of millions.
It is a terrible thing to feel this deep shame for what our country has become along with ongoing disgust, disappointment, and grief that such mean spirits should prevail.
So…we keep fighting for this 250 yr-old American Dream we old-timers have been blessed to live.
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