07/22/2016
America is really a great place in which to live. It's not down in the dumps. And it is not a doom & gloom story. It's a great story. Right here. Right now. Join a happier camp of people at Slack Winery who think America has been great for a long time and will continue to be so.
And if I can't convince you, our wine should. To quote a decade old line from one of my favorite writers, Adam Gopnik, in turn quoting Saul Steinberg “Wine is the only thing that makes us happy as adults for no reason.”
Politics got you down? Summer heat? Your neighbor's xenophobia? Well here at Slack, we're getting ready to toast our two 2015 Summer intern alumae, Sabine & Anna, who've paved the way for our 2016 interns, Viki and Rita, who arrive from Austria on Monday. Vicki and Rita have surely been briefed that they must carry on the tradition of posting daily blogs of life at Jubilee and Woodlawn in the Slack tradition -- new sports, yoga on the deck, turtles and swans --- though the latter are northward now. America in its splendor --- let's not be fooled otherwise.
Love celebrating this photo of Anna (left) and Sabine (right) as we rested our kayaks off the Potomac shoal at the end of Blake Creek, on a sultry summer day last summer, SoMD style where life is good, wine lingers in the mouth, and "Only thing we have to fear is fear itself".
Join Slack this Saturday at Jubilee with Davis Norris on guitar, and Sunday at Woodlawn with Tammy and Jeff who go by Americana, for a weekend celebrating the casual goodness of America. And if you forget why, we'll just have to hand you a glass of Slack wine.
Onward, great country!
--- Maggie O'Brien
Sudden Patriot
Continuing Winemaker-in-Training
PS Several of you have asked about the new profile picture. Our Canadian friends Joan and Darrel sent this of a man and his dog, sharing a summertime popsicle.
slackwine.com for directions (note google maps = wrong; follow ours)
12-6 pm Saturday Jubilee Farm
12-6 pn Sunday Woodlawn Woodlawn Estate Farm in Maryland