Home Brewing

The entry I am working on will be on Religion and its tolerances and will appear here with in the next day or two. But tonight a more lighthearted announcement of my new label of my beer. Over the last few months I have fell in love with the idea of brewing my own beer. I recently found a place where I can get some assistance and brew on premisses. And hence I made a clone from a massive book of recipes of a beer I first tasted in San Francisco. The image attached is the label I designed tonight. The beer will probably be around 7% alcohol but given its a limited edition of the first Mezyk beer, who is really concerned about that. Cheers!!

Back and continuing steady from now on...

If I can link the previous entries with this one I will. For now I want to mineralize the procrastination and move forward with the blog.

Now being December, this year has really been somewhat monumental in the course of my creative work. It actually marries the personal and creative self into continual search of purpose for the both. And the transformation has been completely unexpected. For most of the year I have been collecting a lot of puzzles that were to complex to fit together into something instantly meaningful. None of that will go away. At 32 I have accepted that and begun to find comfort in it. Questions of why and their purpose are nothing more then a satisfaction that the creative part of the work will never stay stagnant. So life goes on.

There is a special alignment that occurred this year between the personal and creative self that is gaining momentum. But this finest fragment can only be attributed to something I have previously given too little thought and I honestly admit seriously overlooked. You see, the work I happen to most enjoy creating  comes out of the personal self consciousness and most guarded against social influences which I find myself at war with. The breakdown on universal truth and values has turned into consumerism which lacks any sense of individual value. Further more the only wisdom that is valued is one that can create profit. And hence what wisdom that might be popular today is what is being adopted in the consumption which is falsely believed as a path toward success. Imitation without imagination. Imitation of what was once in fashion and attempting to exploit it for profit while people are still familiar with it. Its sad really. But we're not allowed to think that while the advertisements and political correctness has its time in the everyday rhythm. To think you are individual seems remarkably wrong.

But I am not alone. I leaned that through fantastic luck and fate of this year. Some things are unexplainable. And the biggest lesson I learned this year is that you don't need to compromise to fit in. Simply believe and carry on. The risk at hand is that you will be labeled. But why accept judgment of others if you are worth more. The discovery of that value is the essence of life. Accept now that 99% of people in your life will never understand you. But know that that 1% is worth more then any superficial success attained.

(Note about the photograph: It a reflection on window of the train car. Straight shot - only contrast and black levels adjusted and maybe a slight white balance shift but not much.)