A Bucket Swansong: What to Do with our Remembrances of Things Past
Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2017 1:50 pm
As someone who has definitively warned off by my doctors from buying wines that won't be mature in a year or two, I'm wondering if a bucket-list blog containing the adventures of my efforts to deal with the remains of my cellar, early as well as late, as well as the wines consumed or suggested would be an addition to the literature on wine. Still has me puzzled as to what format the invitation to pursue should take. Don't exactly want to publish the contents of my cellar and make myself a minor-league target for those whose addictions take a different format.
Of course, there are those of you out there who have gotten similar warnings either from within or without. Hey, it's all part of living. Maybe we can help each other a bit with our foreimagined grief!
But ... I'm taken with the idea of selecting [a] bottle[s] from the participant[s]'s cellar[s] that either have delivered or promise to deliver memory stimulation or storytellling, one of wine's great cultural assets, in the context of food and fellowship. Probably relaxed sipping would if anything have a therapeutic effect on those like me whose memory functions might have been adversely affected by a chronic disease. [Hey, you remember the Salmacbudnazeezzar that got away?? THAT big, eh?]
Any ideas from you or others would be gratefully received on this or similar topics!
In the unlikely event that there are others who would like to visit or be visited, in ones or in groups, to do such fun 'work'', I've put together a list of what I bought over the last 2 years since Barbara began getting ill, and going on through my current engagement and plans to be married to Jackie December 9th this. Anyone who's interested in getting a pm of the list can have one as long as I know they are legit. Will see if this creates even a soupson of a frisson of a tickle of curiosity. Let me know.There may even be a way of doing this by instant messaging or the like.
Of course, there are those of you out there who have gotten similar warnings either from within or without. Hey, it's all part of living. Maybe we can help each other a bit with our foreimagined grief!
But ... I'm taken with the idea of selecting [a] bottle[s] from the participant[s]'s cellar[s] that either have delivered or promise to deliver memory stimulation or storytellling, one of wine's great cultural assets, in the context of food and fellowship. Probably relaxed sipping would if anything have a therapeutic effect on those like me whose memory functions might have been adversely affected by a chronic disease. [Hey, you remember the Salmacbudnazeezzar that got away?? THAT big, eh?]
Any ideas from you or others would be gratefully received on this or similar topics!
In the unlikely event that there are others who would like to visit or be visited, in ones or in groups, to do such fun 'work'', I've put together a list of what I bought over the last 2 years since Barbara began getting ill, and going on through my current engagement and plans to be married to Jackie December 9th this. Anyone who's interested in getting a pm of the list can have one as long as I know they are legit. Will see if this creates even a soupson of a frisson of a tickle of curiosity. Let me know.There may even be a way of doing this by instant messaging or the like.