We were not made to sit around mumbling incantations and watching our insides to see what creation will do for us.
Wine does indeed have subjective effects, but they are to be received gratefully and lightly.
They are not solemnly important psychological adjustments, but graces, super-added gifts. It was St. Thomas Aquinas who gave the most reasonable and relaxed of all the definitions of temperance. It is a happy example of the connection between sanctity and sanity. The ice was almost out on Sunday. I suspect by now it is gone and the first courageous loons have returned to Chemo Pond.