Every day, in big and little ways, our actions irrevocably change the world. This is what I call living! And with hindsight it becomes history. Today, we’ll make moves, planned and spontaneous, that will affect our collective future. For example, on April 3rd, 1973, Martin Cooper, while working for Motorola, made the first mobile phone call from downtown Manhattan to Bell Labs in New Jersey. The first work call. You might call it progress.

Also on April 3rd, but in 1968, the day before he was killed, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered the ‘Mountaintop Speech’ in Memphis, in which he spoke of Americans’ power as consumers, urging citizens to make their voices heard by what they chose to purchase, or forgo.

In that speech, he also said, ‘...if I were standing at the beginning of time, with the possibility of taking a kind of general and panoramic view of the whole of human history up to now, and the Almighty said to me, "Martin Luther King, which age would you like to live in?" Strangely enough, I would turn to the Almighty, and say, "If you allow me to live just a few years in the second half of the 20th century, I will be happy." Now that's a strange statement to make, because the world is all messed up. The nation is sick. Trouble is in the land; confusion all around. That's a strange statement. But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.’

Dr. King continued, ‘All we say to America is, "Be true to what you said on paper." If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. Maybe I could understand the denial of certain basic First Amendment privileges, because they hadn't committed themselves to that over there. But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right. And so just as I say, we aren't going to let dogs or water hoses turn us around, we aren't going to let any injunction turn us around. We are going on.’

May we all be as brave and wise as the King of Love in our daily actions, build strength in our communities to thrive and celebrate amid the inevitable confusion. History will lay the facts bare, incontrovertible, tomorrow, and the next day, and the next...

TONIGHT...THURSDAY NIGHT FLIGHTS: Portuguese Whites and Beaujolais
2023 Vignobles Bulliat Bibine Beaujolais-Villages
2023 Jean-Paul Dubost Beaujolais Lantignié
2022 Chateau Javernand Gatilles Chiroubles
2022 Filipa Pato Dinamica Vinho Branco
2023 Casa de Mouraz Dão Branco
2019 Anta de Cima Argilla Branco
Tasting Flights $15 from 5-9 and wines by the glass until close!

SATURDAY 4/5: ORANGE WINES from around the world - Taste four, organic, skin-macerated white wines - AKA ‘amber’ or ‘skin contact’ whites - from Oregon, Sicily, Spain, and Chile.
2022 Johan Vineyards Maceration White
2023 COS Rami Bianco Terre Siciliane
2022 Rosalia Molina 4 Pisos Amber 1L
2024 Louis-Antoine Luyt Carrizal Pipeño Blanco
Tasting Flights $18 from 2-6 and wines by the glass until 9pm!

With love and solidarity,
Max