Tag Archives: Winetasting

To Be Only Human

Posted on March 24, 2020 by damewine

Animals’ simplistic wiring of only needing the basics in life can make them better partners in regards to living in harmony with Mother Nature compared to complexity of humans’ egos that can lead them astray. Human beings can get lost … Continue reading →

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A Journey Filled with Twists and Turns Can Bear Intriguing Fruit

Posted on November 30, 2019 by damewine

For many, the past is something we run away from… try to change everything that was considered odd, unpopular – any outlying characteristics and those things that we couldn’t change we would try to diminish or hide. Once we get … Continue reading →

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A Life of Service is a Life Fulfilled

Posted on October 30, 2019 by damewine

  Every morning during my time in Montalcino, Tuscany, I awoke to the warm glow of the sun highlighting the rolling fog. It didn’t matter the time of day as the place gave a feeling of enchantment at all times … Continue reading →

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Partners in Life Come in All Forms

Posted on September 30, 2019 by damewine

It was a hectic day a few weeks ago when I visited the wine producer Weingut Weegmüller, as the harvest started earlier than expected in their wine region of Pfalz, Germany, but one of the family owners Gabriele Weegmüller was … Continue reading →

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We Need to Listen if We Want to be Heard

Posted on August 29, 2019 by damewine

The world around us is changing faster than most of us can keep up, and combined with the idea that the internet and over-saturation of news makes it all too tempting for even respectable newspapers to go for the sensational … Continue reading →

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What is Success?

Posted on July 31, 2019 by damewine

All of us want to live a “successful life” but that can mean various things to various people. To some, it can mean earning money, and even that within itself can vary – simply having the means to cover the … Continue reading →

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The Papers that Hold the Pride of a People

Posted on June 25, 2019 by damewine

As the glow of the sunset across the vines lit my inner soul on fire, I could hear calls to dinner that came from inside the centuries-old, beige, Southern Italian castle. At first I didn’t want to acknowledge the need … Continue reading →

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A Loss in Life Can Create Open-Hearted Richness

Posted on May 28, 2019 by damewine

Leola Watts is a woman who has had to suffer through one of the most imaginable losses – her son passed away at the tender age of 34. She said, “I was lost. I was literally lost. He was my … Continue reading →

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Distant Lands Inspire the Exploration of Truer Sense of Self

Posted on May 4, 2019 by damewine

Traveling to far-flung, vastly culturally different places is challenging on many levels and at times extremely exhausting. When one lives such an already overwhelmingly challenging life trying to survive, such as I’m sure many of you do, it may seem … Continue reading →

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Full Circle: Realizing That Paradise Is Where You Started

Posted on April 24, 2019 by damewine

Turning onto a dirt road, the fear of the GPS no longer being of any help starts to sink in; yet the fear is tempered by the raw beauty of the surrounding forest that enveloped the car with the slowly … Continue reading →

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