‘Wine Wisdom’
Upon opening the latest vintage of 2024 Grapevine, an article by ‘alcohol’ Alex, with a 13.5 vol content, poured into my cheeerful cup. Numbed by his buzzed words and worship of the Roman god Bacchus, whose ‘sheer hedonic pleasure’ if crossed, could become vengeful, driving one into madness – ‘alcohol’ Alex ‘releases us from the stress of being conscious of ourselves’? And this is a joyful encounter!
Is there really a need to justify Your behaviour? As a member of the self-confessed ‘philosphical hedonist’ society of ‘modern drunkards’, you are drinking from ‘old wineskins’, and you can’t put a new patch on an old wineskin.
There is a ‘new wineskin’ that is not a part of your old ‘wino wisdom’ status quo. The wine inside is inspired by a shared joy that subltly rises from the soil of community, revealing how true freedom springs from the pleasure of our company. We don’t ‘need’ to go to AA, but if you’d care to investigate one of the ‘greatest contributions…to human life’, there is abundant joy to imbibe from their prayer: ‘God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage, to change the things I can, and ‘Wisdom’ to know the difference!
Cheers! Bob Morley
