My time away from regular writing at Wine:30 Flight has come to an end, and for good reason. Over the last year of minimal blogging I’ve written a book that is now scheduled for release in April of 2020. I am as excited to share it with the world for the first time here as I am humbled by the encouragement I have received from those who have read the manuscript, and from the publisher Köehler Books.
Field Blends is a story of the world as it is today, consideration to the intersection of modernity, technology, culture, and the people, pasts, and communities that give each of us roots. It is told through the eyes of friends — wine in hand — in the tumult of love and self doubt, against the backdrop of our ever-changing world. It seeks reconciliation of life amongst the monuments, hideaways, and progressive thought of great European and American cities with the legacy of hometowns, mother countries, and family. I have written it to be joyful of the world’s beauty and melancholy of its present failures.
I’ll share a brief excerpt below that I feel captures the tone of and theme.
“An Asian couple sidled up to the bar, ordered something in English, and then resumed speaking a language that I couldn’t identify. It was something they alone could share. I thought that if Ash had been with us at that odd urban beach bar we might have spoken Spanish with one another, and then had something in that particular moment that we alone could share. And Simon could speak Swedish with passersby and Geoff could speak Arabic to nobody in particular and it would have been like the whole star-crossed world had come together in one beautiful Babel on the beach.”
I hope that you will join me as I continue to write on these themes in this space over the comings months headed towards the book’s release.
(I’ve also shared an additional excerpt on my other blog, Runway View. I hope you enjoy!)