Beer Philosophy for Regular Folks

"Slow Down, You're Here."  Now that's a great tagline!

I don't know anything about the Grayton Beer Company but I bet they're pretty good folks. Judging by this poster I'd guess they also make pretty good beer. I may try getting my hands on one of their lagers, red ales or maybe an amber wheat. I'm no expert on beer but do know a fair amount about slogans and taglines. With that in mind I'd give the Grayton Beer Company one of my highest professional poster-ratings of "Now that's purdy good!"

If you haven't figured out how to slow down from time-to-time you should give it a shot. I'm continually intrigued by my fellow human beings who appear to take life more seriously than might actually be necessary. Based on years of experience, I've found it satisfying to stop, drop and look around from time-to-time at what's happening in the present vicinity. Many of us are so buried in the endless distractions life throws at us that we forget to enjoy what it is we already have. I'm occasionally guilty of that myself, but only occasionally.

The next time you find yourself in a public place, look around at how many folks appear to be preoccupied with stuff out there rather than stuff right here. Is it possible that the electronic device is as much a scourge on our new society as it is a blessing? I suppose it depends largely on how we choose to use it. If so, many things would fall into that same category

For the record, it's not lost on me that I'm sharing this thought on one of my many electronic devices. So as not to appear even more hypocritical than I am, I did walk "device free" for over a mile to get to this coffee shop and once here sat for about 15 minutes consuming coffee while observing the room's animate and inanimate contents.  Most of the animate ones were face-first in their device.

In fairness to the good patrons of Airship, as I look around now most are engaged in conversation and only a couple of the folks are buried in their iBox; one of them being me. Oh the ever present ironies of life in the slow lane:)

Anyway, hat's off to the fine people of the Grayton Beer Company for coming up with a pretty darn good beer poster. It would be difficult to go much better than that.

Cheers to my friend and new reader of "Regular", Matt Hawkins! And thanks to the curious folks who tuned in yesterday: I'll do my best to keep you posted...