Today the Nurse and I heading to Napa.  Brunch then a tasting in Carneros area.

What do I want from wine, some return?  Do I want it as a “side hustle” or something more?  Or, a book?  Have to finish DECIDED first, I know, but I’m taking notes.

I’m doing just what I urged students to in 1A and other classes – enjoy the building, the brainstorming… wine and the literary approach I started with in ’09.  Wine telling a story, communicating not from characteristics or repeated descriptors, but an otherworldly connective.  What is it?  Maybe we don’t need to know.  Maybe we can’t…

Me, returning to the mind of the wine rookie, or “novice”.  Hate that fucking word, but that’s where we are.  Wine, what it says… maybe I just communicate what I feel.

Looking for Chardonnays and Pinots today.  See where I go, what I feel, what’s communicated to me.  This wild once-wine writer…