It's close to harvest time in our small backyard vineyard. Soon you'll be knee-deep in bright purple grapes, stomping and sloshing away, adding a bit of your soul to our wine.
Most of our wine finds its way to those we love, often in the form of a birthday, wedding or anniversary gift. This week we delivered a bottle of last year's vintage to our friends, Chris and Ashley, to celebrate their wedding.
Here's what I wrote in the card that we slipped into the bag with the bottle...
Love, like wine,
Is best between friends.
Shared in full reminiscence
Of the sun,
And the dirt,
And the rain,
From which it was born.
You're going to learn a lot from your mother and me. And you're going to learn a lot from your teachers in school. And from your grandparents and from your aunts and uncles and from your friends and from your neighbors.
But some of life's best lessons come in unexpected places.
Never underestimate what you can learn from a bottle of wine. Or from taking apart a car engine. Or from a sunrise hike in the mountains.
Never underestimate life's capacity for unexpected joy.
Love,
dad
1 comment:
My card from you said, "This is a wedding card."
That is so much cooler than what you put in Chris and Ashley's.
(I kid.)
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