Wine Cellar

I stumbled upon this quote (from a Sapiens-reading tech bro but let’s be nice) about treating your home library not as a “TBR” (another blasted inbox) but as a wine cellar:

Think not of the books you’ve bought as a “to be read” pile. Instead, think of your bookcase as a wine cellar. You collect books to be read at the right time, the right place, and the right mood.

Perfect.

There are other areas of life that could benefit from being seen as wine cellars.

I, however, am uniquely bad at wine cellaring. I try to generate surpluses of long-life foodstuffs like jams and preserves, tins of sardines, honey, olive oils, and, yes, wines. For the right time, the right place, the right mood. But I just scoff them.

My thinking is: they’re there to be eaten or drank, so why not eat or drink them now? And so it goes on. Forever.

Let it never be said that there’s a fine line between Escapologist and prepper. I could never stock a bunker adequately, even if I meant to. You’d just find me in there after the fallout’s cleared, dead and fat. “He died doing what he loved,” you could tell the obit people, “napping.”

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