The old saying, “The more things change the more they stay the same,” may apply in many areas of our 2022 daily lives, but I realized recently by walking through my wine cellar how it didn’t really apply to wine. The saying may have been prophetic a while back for things like political or economic systems or the philosophies of humor or education, but it surely doesn’t work for: –Telephones (corded and wall-attached to cellular). –Motion pictures (black and white and silent to color, extraordinary sound, and 3D). –Automobiles (25 mph and hand-crank starters to 150 mph and automated parking). A French writer by the name of Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr wrote, “Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.” But he decided to offer this bit of wisdom even before the U.S. Civil War began — and what was particularly civil about that conflict, anyway? Since then, we’ve had a …
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