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COSMIC BITS, the name of this site, refers to the random and unexpected glitches in electronic circuits caused by cosmic rays. These glitches occur when high-energy particles from space, called cosmic rays, alter the properties of data bits stored in computers as sequences of 0s and 1s. This can cause a bit to flip from a 0 to 1 or vice versa.
After twenty plus years in the wine industry, Leah Jorgensen Jean had an epiphany about her own health and realized she needed to make serious changes in her life. Her midlife path forward was a mystical one, guiding her toward her own healing and transformation. When she decided to take a sabbatical in the fall of 2023, and, for the first time in her career, bypassed her first wine grape harvest, she was already deep into her herbalism studies, but also began a self-guided study of all things regenerative.
Leah reflected on her own business, taking stock on what was working and what was not, and soon after announced her retirement from winemaking. She shifted her wine business to one that is more regenerative in practice and ethos. Instead of producing more wine or feeling obligated to scale in an over-saturated market, she focused on holding back vintages, building her wine library, and making plans for re-releasing her age-loving Cabernet Franc wines with moderate price increases as she, the winemaker, takes responsibility over bottle aging her own wines.
“It’s time to stoke the fires from which the phoenix will rise and take her final flight,” Leah expressed in the launch of her final wine project, Thorson Parish.
She took an unexpected stance on over-indulgence and publicly acknowledges the toxicity of alcohol and its contribution to serious inflammation in the body. She adheres to regenerative business ethics and with this final concept wine she’s promoting and supporting healthier outcomes for everyone by limiting the number of bottles available to the individual consumer, while requesting consumption of her final wine not only in conscious moderation, but with purpose for serious curiosity and contemplation.
She spends most of her time outside tending to things closer to home, including playing in her regenerative herbal medicine garden, foraging, fostering outdoor nature school for her young son, and encouraging her Lagotto Romagnolo dog to truffle hunt instead of dig up holes in her yard in search of gophers.
As Leah shifts from winemaker and wine entrepreneur to herbal medicine grower, writer/author, wisdom keeper and mentor, you can follow her musings at COSMIC BITS and visit her social front stoop, Instagram, for updates on herbal plant harvests, foraging, and processing; regenerative gardening; homesteading; magazine contributions; book launches, events and more.
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