Tuesday, July 21, 2026
Smoke in This Life Not the Next Tue, Jul 21 — Hemingway Days Festival Begins Virtue: Story & Strength Cigar: Corojo – earthy, steady Bourbon: Bardstown Fusion – communal Reflection: “What story is God writing in me?” Hemingway Days begins, and the evening carries that familiar mix of grit and lyricism — the sense that a man’s life is a story being written sentence by sentence, choice by choice. The Corojo burns earthy and steady, a leaf that refuses pretense. Bardstown Fusion follows with its communal warmth, a bourbon built from blending strengths rather than hiding weaknesses. Together they form a liturgy of narrative: honest, muscular, unembellished. Into this smoke comes the severe voice of the departed: “Alas! alas! no one can believe with what severity God judges and punishes His creatures. His infinite Sanctity discovers in our best actions defective spots, imperfections which displease Him. He requires us to give an account even to the last farthing. Usque ad nov...
