by Sondra Barrett | Sep 21, 2011 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Wine
The better cardiovascular health among the French people compared to Americans has been a puzzle. Even though the French eat a lot more saturated fat (meat, cheese, butter), smoke more, and exercise less, the French have forty percent fewer heart attacks. Initially,...
by Sondra Barrett | Sep 20, 2011 | Blog, Secrets of Your Cells
When I began writing the acknowledgement page for my new book, it was easy to think of the people I immediately wanted to acknowledge and give thanks to – my kids, my good friends, my obvious teachers, my editor and publisher. After the first draft, more names...
by Sondra Barrett | Sep 12, 2011 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells
If there were no internal propensity to unite… in the molecule itself it would be physically impossible for love to appear higher up, with us. By rights… we should assume its presence… in everything that is… Teilhard de Chardin ~The Phenomenon of Man Just imagine...
by Sondra Barrett | Aug 2, 2011 | Art and Science, Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
If wine had an image to represent its character, style or personality – what kind of wine do you think would be represented by the above image? I often fantasize that if wine bottles had pictures of what’s inside the bottle, we the consumer might make...
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 20, 2011 | Blog, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Shaping Taste
Jo Diaz named me the wine shaman when we first met, I owned up to that name yet had not defined it. Until now. What is a wine shaman? Well, first know that a shaman is One who sees into things, sees energy, images, stories from the other side of knowing. A shaman...