Incentivized Wine

My friend Stacia at a beach cookout

The writer and photographer, Heather Daenitz from https://www.craftandcluster.com/ sent an email to her mailing list asking the question “Why isn’t wine a moving day beverage?”. She writes “wine doesn’t need to be decanted and paired with a five-course meal to be worth drinking. It can be the thing you pour when you finally sit down after packing boxes all day. The bottle you open when you need a moment of quiet on your back porch. The drink you reach for just because you feel like it.”

In the spirit of Open That Bottle Night, she proposes - instead of just romantic date night or fancy holiday dinner, what about post-yardwork wine? Tuesday night, what’s-in-the-fridge wine? Oh no, the power just went out wine?

I am here for that Take the Win energy. Tiny Habits. Baby steps. We can do medium hard things that we have been putting off. We can file our taxes. We can clean out our closets and then (this is the key, here) drop off the donation to Goodwill and not just drive around with old clothes in the trunk. Dust the baseboards. A kitchen pantry re-org. Car vacuum and windex of the windows.

An incentive or as a little treat to celebrate adulting, let’s have an adult beverage.

My friend Emily and her dad at their game night