I keep lists. Lists of things I want to write about or return to. If I don’t, I’ll forget them as I go about serving clients, making breakfast for Henry, daydreaming, reading emails, writing emails, golfing, enjoying my books, and sleeping. So I keep lists.
One of those lists is “Subjects for Writing”. It’s long. But I was looking at it today adn realize, a bunch of stuff on there were just things I wanted to say “no” to. And it’s fine to say “no” to things and it does mean you are a curmudgeon for doing so. (You know who you are!!).
But then I realized some of those things didn’t require long paragraphs, careful wording and long articles to get my point across that, “no”….Just…”no”. Plus, I get great satisfaction from seeing a line drawn across items on a list.
So, briefly, here goes…Six No’s for your conosideration:
The Idea that wine is “eurocentric” is of course true. Why wouldn’t it be? The stuff’s ancestral home is in Europe. It evolved in Europe. It was perfected in Europe. The language used to discuss it with precision evolved in Europe. However, the fact that wine is Eurocentric is somehow a problem that must be fixed? No. That’s kinda like saying we need to reject the American-centric reality of Baseball. No.