Drinking Liberally: Spaces Out

Greetings all my time and space capsules,

Lately I have found myself spending far too much time staring out the window at the sky. Just lookin'. And for all this staring, I don't find a whole lot. Clouds. Bugs. Occasional bird. Can't see much beyond that — what with the dang sun always in the way. At night, it's not much different. Dang moon. But one thing all this staring into space has allowed me is time to think ... think about space.

Man, that thing is HUGE! Einstein thought it was so huge that it transcended the categorization of "huge." Space blows past huge and on into infinite. So big that it wraps around and touches itself. So big that if you could see out in front of you for forever, you would see yourself. Wooza.

Now, when looking at things on this scale, we down here don't amount to much. Literally, the mass of Earth is so small in comparison to the total mass of the universe that it is mathematically zero. So why then does it matter if you come to Drinking Liberally this week?

Well, for starters, Drinking Liberally doesn't believe in math. No math. No infinity. And we're not so sure about this Einstein fellow either. We believe that the smallest actions of people here on earth can amount to something. And we believe in the power of beer to make those actions happen.

So leave that impossibly big, vacuum-sealed ziploc Mobius strip of space to NASA, and come on out to Drinking Liberally tonight, at 7:00, at the Green Bean on S. Elm Street.

Ritchie Rozzelle
Chapter Host
Drinking Liberally
Greensboro, NC