Red Red Wine

Everytime I think of something profound to write, I resort to drinking something equally profound: red wine. It has been a passion, a love interest, a  juice de force and even a poison. God knows how many years I have been caught under the spell of this fermented boisson. I wondered many a times if I would be called an addict because, I am  in fact, addicted to wine. Red wine. Vino Tinto to say it with mucho gusto! I have come to embrace red wine with so much fervour and so much caress that I will not want to part with it. Sure there are instances where I have had to forego it (meditation & yoga camps, working on projects, WORK) but a glass on most nights keep me alive and rarin' to go... 

My fave varieties are from the New World. I absolutely adore anything Chilean, S. African, NZ and Australian. Most recently I have come to enjoy the Malbecs of Argentina too! I am not going to pretend that I am a wine connoisseur, but I know how to distinguish good from bad. I am self-taught in the art of wine-tasting (books and liquour stores help) and I admittedly do love good wines. Not necessarily expensive, but good.

Being back in the West (travels in Europe and currently stationed in Canada) after my East (that is Japan), I have been spoiled by tasting New World variety galore. So... am wondering with my next assignment in the Middle East, will I still get to indulge, explore and ardently savour the Cab Sav drops? I am fervently hoping that Oman is not as dry as the rest of the Gulf nations... Inshallah as they (or I?) would say!

Only time will tell. I will soon discover if my vinto tinto glass will runneth over...

A Drinking Song    (W.B. Yeats)

Wines comes in at the mouth

And love comes in at the eye;

That's all we shall know for truth

Before we grow old and die.

I lift the glass to my mouth, 

I look at you, and I sigh.

11/22: Birth of a New Blog

11/22. I chose an auspicious day to start my journal. It's been a working process, an inner journey. God knows how much journeying I've been doing the last time I started a blog from another site. However, now I am heeding my calling of recording what I see, hear, touch, smell and feel. As in any traveling, one's senses should be accutely in tuned with one's surroundings. There has been a growing desire for me to express myself. This is the birth of a new creative outlet. I take this wherever I go in the hope to share and relate my journeys ( inner musings, travels, LIFE), as well as our (yes YOU) collective journeys together.

11/22. Auspicious numbers. According to Numerology, 11 and 22 respectively relate to Jesus Christ and Buddha. Hence making 11 and 22 both Master Healing numbers. I kind of like to think there is something 'lucky' about the fact I am giving birth to new blog on this day to tap into my creative universe. And this of course coincides with the birthday of the love of my life, my dear grandfather, or "Tateng" as I affectionately called him. In his sweet memory, I dedicate the birth of my new blog.