by Sondra Barrett | Jun 29, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Wine
Many years ago I was brought into the world of wine through my photography with a microscope. As artist-in-residence for Sterling Vineyards I had the amazing opportunity to work with the winemakers as they asked questions like – do wines look different when...
by Sondra Barrett | Jun 11, 2015 | Blog, Featured, Shaping Taste
Is this relationship doomed? He likes white wine, she likes red. I have a dear friend who prefers lean white wines like sauvignon blanc. I have learned over the years that that is my least favorite wine and have thought our relationship was doomed since he...
by Sondra Barrett | Jul 11, 2014 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells, Spirituality
Buddha was a biologist according to meditation guru Wes Nisker, author of Buddha’s Nature. Buddha was thought to not believe in God yet everything that he taught expanded a spiritual awareness and consciousness guiding people to the highest expression of self. The...
by Sondra Barrett | Jun 21, 2014 | Blog, Featured, Wine
Some wines express exquisite beauty under the eye of the microscope, like this featured image. The famed mentor of California winemakers, Andre Tchelistcheff, called this images the JEWELS OF WINE. This one certainly is. Some wines express more rounded...
by Sondra Barrett | May 29, 2014 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells, Spirituality
Man is a colony of cells in action. It is the cells which achieve, through him, what he has the illusion of accomplishing himself. It is the cells which create and maintain in us…our will to survive, to search and experiment and to struggle. ~Albert Claude, Nobel...
by Sondra Barrett | Dec 10, 2013 | Blog, Cell Wisdom, Cultivating Well-being, Featured, Secrets of Your Cells
I recently had an amazing experience of LETTING GO of Anger, Resentment, and Angst. I wrote about it in my recent newsletter and wanted to expand it here. I’d been looking to move since September yet hadn’t found the right place. It was grueling and time consuming...