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08/29/03 - Tomorrow I will be around music. I will be happy to be around the music and people, some of whom I don't know. I will people watch. I will have a good time. Sunday and Monday I will be able to find music and people too … at the wineries. Boy do I love wine! I enjoy it. It makes me woozy, but it's so delicious! Right now I am drinking a glass of wine and reading a book excerpt from a novel called Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris. She wrote Chocolat, which I didn't read, but saw the movie. She opens the book like this: "Wine talks; ask anyone. The oracle at the street corner; the uninvited guest at the wedding feast; the holy fool. It ventriloquizes. It has a million voices. It unleashes the tongue, teasing out secrets you never meant to tell, secrets you never even knew. It shouts, rants, whispers. It speaks of great plans, tragic loves and terrible betrayals. It screams with laughter. It chuckles softly to itself. It weeps in front of it's own reflection. It revives summers long past and memories best forgotten. Every bottle a whiff of other times, other places, every one - from the commonest Liebfraumilch to the imperious Veuve Clicquot - a humble miracle, everyday magic, Joe had called it. The transformation of base matter into the stuff of dreams. Layman's alchemy." Well, like I said, I am a little woozy but that first paragraph really got to me. I'm dealing with a lot of what was mentioned: plans, loves, memories, and secrets. I never expected change. I felt I was tolerant. Maybe I hoped for resurrection, or some sort of reinvention. It hasn't been the summer I imagined. It hasn't been the summer I was hinted to, promised? No, no promises. This summer has felt more like a stint in the Peace Corp, hard work and lots of learning … trying to make a difference. Yes, the wine does talk. And if I have enough of it … I hope to be chuckling softly to myself. |
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