"When we're infused with either enthusiasm or awe or fondness…it changes what we see. It changes what we remember."

~  Rob Legato (Academy Award Winning Visual Effects Guy)

“Live in each season as it passes, breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.”

~Henry David Thoreau

“Wine is man’s most successful effort to translate the perishable into the permanent.”

~ John Arlott (English journalist, poet, wine connoisseur, and cricket commentator).

"You can find energizing moments in each aspect of your life, but to do so you must learn how to catch them, hold onto them...and allow yourself to follow where they lead."

~  Marcus Buckingham

“It is no less difficult to write sentences in a recipe than sentences in Moby Dick.”

~ Annie Dillard