#Lamotte

[postcard-from-the-past]

16th-century Fort Lamotte in Lyon, France

French vintage postcard

[tasteletssee]

Saying Ja to Syrah 🍇 Celebrating International Syrah Day, February 16 in the best way. @dottieandjohn are preparing us for Open that Bottle Night (February 25), the last Saturday in February. More on OTBN with @dottieandjohn here: https://grapecollective.com/articles/riesling-or-marionberry-oh-the-dilemmas-of-otbn In anticipation, I recalled the @lamottewine Syrah virtual vertical with La Motte Cellarmaster, Edmund Terblanche, that I enjoyed with @grangehurstwinery’s Jeremy Walker. We studied: 2003 La Motte Shiraz 2007 La Motte Shiraz 2010 La Motte Pierneef Shiraz Viognier 2013 La Motte Syrah 2015 La Motte Syrah 2017 La Motte Syrah Sometimes I believe that 2007 is the year that answered. I finished high school that year and the years since have been turbulent - between university, the heartbreaks, the triumphs and the trials. I experienced the online tasting with Jeremy Grangehurst, proprietor at Grangehurst in Stellenbosch who had played host to me during the Cape Winemaker’s Guild tasting in the Cape in 2021. I promised Jeremy that I wanted to open the 2007 La Motte Syrah with dear family, who have been so good to me, particularly my uncle who is a wonderful oenophile. I thought of all the years that have passed, of my aunt and uncle who always took the time to share their wonderful wine with me over the years. My aunt and uncle are incredibly fond of the cape winelands, particularly of Franschoek where this wine is vinified. There could not be a more apt wine to share with them on Open that Bottle Night.  While there is no guarantee that the years ahead will be easy, it gives us great solace to look back on the vintages that have been so fondly. How are you celebrating Syrah Day? How will you be commemorating Open That Bottle Night? #TasteLetsSee #LaMotte #SyrahDay #OTBN (at Grangehurst Winery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cou9ZwuqvTY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[crushing-on-nico-di-angelo]

2023

invitation, mary oliver // the unabridged journals, sylvia plath // happy xmas, john lennon // north country, mary oliver // i am running into a new year, lucille clifton // salt, nayyirah waheed // diaries of franz kafka // bird by bird, anne lamott // sunrise, louise glück

[asoftepiloguemylove]

THE SUN COMES UP AGAIN // LIVING DESPITE IT ALL

Anne Lamott Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life // José Saramago Cain // Kill Your Darlings (2013) dir. John Krokidas // Katie Maria The Memory of a Memory // Cheryl Strayed Tiny Beautiful Things // Undertale (2015) cr. Toby Fox // pinterest // SEVENTEEN: HIT THE ROAD episode 10 A Time To Face Myself (via @kwonhochi) // pinterest // カウボーイビバップ Cowboy Bebop (1988-1999) cr. Hajime Yatate // pinterest // pinterest // Mary Oliver For Example

[nobeerreviews]

I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen.

-- Anne Lamott

[theclassicsreader]

I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.

– Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

[dk-thrive]

Age is giving me the two best gifts: softness and illumination. It would have been nice if whoever is in charge of such things doled them out in our younger years, but that’s not how it works. Age ferries them across the water, and they will bring us through whatever comes.

— Anne Lamott, from "All that is true about aging is illuminated on a walk" (NY Times, March 14, 2024)

[lillyli-74]

Photography by Pawel Pentlinowski

Hope begins in the dark.

~Anne Lamott

[huariqueje]

Street of Paris at Night   -  Bernard Lamotte , c. 1930.

French  1903-1983

Gouache , 19.1 x 14.8 cm.

[iamdexter123]

Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. A friend of mine says that the first draft is the down draft—you just get it down. The second draft is the up draft—you fix it up. You try to say what you have to say more accurately. And the third draft is the dental draft, where you check every tooth, to see if it’s loose or cramped or decayed, or even, God help us, healthy.

- Anne Lamott, Bird By Bird

[postcard-from-the-past]

Street scene in Lamotte-Beuvron, Sologne region of France

French vintage postcard

[tasteletssee]

My Cup of Joy Runneth Over 🌸 Enjoying life’s everyday joys with @LaMottewine Vin de Joie Rosé 2022 Grapes for La Motte’s lively and lovely Vin de Joie Rosé are grown in: 71% Grenache (Swartland), 17% Mourvèdre (Franschhoek), 6% Syrah (Elim) and 6% Cinsault (Franschhoek) #VindeJoie #LaMotte #RoseAllDay (at Johannesburg) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkDWtNsqgd5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

I consider it my sacred duty to break the rules. A broken rule is the open gate to a wilder meadow. I smoked an Arturo Fuentes cheroot with the Buddha. Forgive me. Asked if he had any rules. He said, just one. Vow to be healed by your tears. Then he opened up to me about his sadness, admitted he had to come back because he was lonely. Maybe as Anthony Bourdain. Maybe Dolly Parton. I made a bourbon smoothie and shared it with Jesus. Asked if he had any rules. He said, just one. Call me brother, not Lord. Cucumber, mint, and kale with a shot of Wild Turkey, forgive me, it was delicious. A broken rule is the open gate to a deeper rule, unwritten and harder to disobey. The rules of the body lead to the rules of the soul. Like the one that says, love for no reason. The one that says, make friends with the brokenhearted. The one that says, forgive yourself again and again. So I discover the rules I cannot break by breaking the ones I can.

~ Fred LaMotte

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Bernard Lamotte, Rainy Night Street Scene in Blue, 1950s. Oil on canvas.

Photo: 1st Dibs

[entheognosis]

[classic-and-gold]