Now
MotD
There is only one decision separating you from what you think you’re separated.
Wine is
pages and pages……..
Day 9. About conviction, about defiance, about all of us finding what we’re searching for. Coltrane playing me and eased track. Didn’t record my spoken word piece yesterday. Was distracted by that bottle of Inspiration Syrah, the quiet of the house, and thoughts of writing about the wine industry. When in my office, I see such a book taking shape, in not much time either. Citing everything from the ridiculous pay, to the overwhelming focus on anything but get wine, to patterns and posturing from those patterns.
A truck passes me on 128. Hate typing on my phone, but this is what I have currently. Hoping for a day not at all busy. Not at all preoccupied with the winery making its number for the month, but more my sanity, my sentences, this project and others.
This week in the office, I’m going to loudly and communicatively accelerate all movements and sights. Why can’t I be the highest selling AE in my first year? There is no law or rule or policy prohibiting such. Actually, Sonic is the atmosphere that enables and emboldens such a progression to take place. Whatever we do for work, we need not only make it our own, but have it teach us and be a measure of effort. We should always seek to against ourselves compete.
Bed early tonight. Wake at 5, 4 if you can. At the end of 100 days, there will be a visual of such altitude, such attainment. If I’m not the highest earner, I’ll have shocked everyone with what I’ve done. Make calls, SET APPOINTMENTS…. just say hi. Forget about return, certainly immediate return. That’s a foot shot, I’ve learned, and an error the wine industry continues to seemingly want to make. And I e never figured out why, why they expect such instant transaction and metrics ascension. I’ve given up trying to learn, now focusing on my Sonic story and sense of new sense and story, character.
This writing spot, little spacious and sizeable inlet, used to write here in 2012 as I mentioned, and later in 2017 when working at the Foley camp. Now, story is different. Not at all fearful to question and defy regularity and policy, not that I was before. But Sonic has shown me that one idea can prove purposeful and provide a purpose which pervades till your final day. Such is now, such is me, such is my poetic and newly purposed immediacy.
What do I want from the day. Peace. Ideas for this week. Ideas on growth, branding and rebranding but more than that…. CHARACTER. Story. Life. Revolution. Start acting like a revolutionary, I said to myself and some other people at Sonic a few months ago. Today…. watch. And won’t do so with malice or a burn-bridge intent, but to have my identity known. For all in contact with me, not just for me. If I’m not making sense I apologize….. you’ll see what I mean, shortly.
The only solution
is an entirety of REVOLUTION.
Tired of the pitches, tired of the speakers…
Truth is the only truth.
After a Beer and Some New Journal Writing
Back home. But only for a minute. Getting takeout from a spot down the street. Not too expensive, at all. Just a burger, pairing with a Syrah, I think ’15, that I just bought up the road, also inexpensive. Inspiration Vineyards, where I’ve been going quite a bit for the writer’s wine needs. Rand into connection through social, from CHI, finally getting to meet him and how beatific it was. Telling me I’m an amazing writer, certain enflaming and inciting, delighting my confidence but as well reminding me to write only wine, about wine, define her and explore the total narrative pulse to her intention.
At Lancaster, morrow. I’m going to do the “job” even less than I did last week. Only intent on showing people a time, one fun and not at all formulaically humdrum. If I sell, great. If not, no matter to a writer. I have pages, I have characters, reactions to the wines, the wines and what they do to the room be it the library or cave alcove, or the salon (TR).
Writing in the new journal at Moonlight Brewing showed me something about writing, and teaching, education principally, that I need to teach self again on certain curves and literary layers. And, that any negativity in life doesn’t need intersect with this writer’s story and page place.
Need to write everything. Wine is the cause and the laud and god to all this, what I see and how I see it. Everything I do is for that small label where hopefully my sister can make the wine and I just speak it and “sell” it. But, more than an it. Want my babies involved, somehow. Walking my own vineyard with a vineyard manager, he or she telling me about the vintage and the fruit, what the weather will do. I need be out in those rows. Mine.
Zen
in EOD SB.
Music.
Looking back at the writer.
…me going to Bottle Barn and picking her from the shelf with no method. Wine writing, I have to do this for the rest of my life, going forward from this altitude-spoke age of 40. Then she told me to stop with that. Age is an idea I’m choosing to value, to embrace and allow shift concentration mid and post-sip. Stop, she ordered. And I more or less did. When the last glass was done, I saw I’d finished a book, or something that was manuscript-mimicking. Life, she professed and etched in my against the counter positioning. She told me to be like Sal and Dean, just get out there, see what the wines of the sphere want you to write. They’re all her, they’re all a result of this Pinot. Two Kings having me feeling royal, or nt royal but with a set set, Road and story I need maintain and perpetuate. While washing out the glass, she continued her track, more animated than when I was actually sipping. Singing and smiling and bewitching, connected and narrative. Sense of the spell and magic she was writing, that the vintage wrote and that she was translating. Taking nothing away from the winemakers that helped in the shepherd of fermentation and making sure all levels were where they needed to be, but the alchemical arrangement and symmetry, the subtlety and voice, play of the grape is what persisted. In a typical piece of wine “prose”, I’d just have to write some obscure and nearly-uncomfortable deconstruction, and slap a score off to the right or left. Perfunctory, having no place in her hue or sequence of any sentences. And yes, I may be rambling, but wine is about wander and more the Road than the stop…
Traveling and tasting whatever I can get my hands on. Writing a thousand words per bottle. Yes, a thousand. This offering I brought home will see a thousand words. Won’t finish the bottle, I don’t think. No, I won’t. Have to be at winery tomorrow. Not till 12, but still. Composure, not-so-young man! Composure. Composition. My sister-in-law told me, TOLD ME, nearly ten years ago, write about wine. Wine. Writing. You’re a writer and even then I was seen as a wine something, so write about it. Should have a dozen books out by now. Fuck. Should be traveling. Not. Okay… calm, Mikey… peace. You speak of nothing. You’re too Mercutio right now. That’s true.Remembering my one walk at Dutcher Crossing, where I saw the fish, I think a Steelhead or something, trying to swim upstream. I admired his stubbornness, his bizarre devotion to motion, to going upstream. Think he heard me walk down that Cab block and nearly slip into the stream, and he panicked. I did, too. Just looked at him. He calmed as did I. That’s wine, what wine is, I thought. What’s around wine… in that Pinot, the one I’m about to open, there’s the story of how I saw it, how I parked near BB after a definite day on the tech tray, elected newness, something new in wine’s truth.