Wine, Wit, and Wisdom

Drink  enough wine to sharpen your wit, and have the wisdom to know when to quit,  Antoinette.

The problem with social media (could there be more than one? ) is that it has reduced our thoughts to abbrev's, cliches and letters lol.  In this case less isn't more. We don't need more overused phrases and opinions that betray lack of original thought. We need to be smarter than that. We need to come together as one because it takes a village. But let's face it. That would be too difficult for most since apparently the village idiot is now plural. Thanks Hollywood and D.C.  (btw, I meant idiot in the nicest possible way) To be honest, at the end of the day we have to literally take the bull by the horns and give 110% effort until the cows come home if we are going to break the social media chains that bind us and prevent us from being thoughtful, intelligent human beings who express our thoughts clearly and do what's right. Remember when the going gets tough, the tough get going and whatever doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Those of us who survive will then be able to avoid cliches and hackneyed phrases like the plague and seek a silver lining in the cloud of witless obfuscation that surrounds us all. I'm not being funny, but there is only one one way of doing things and that's the right way. And OMG, God willing, you already know what to do... just go out there and give it all you've got...the ol college try, and drink wine. In Vino Veritas! We know there is truth in wine, and we know there is wisdom because Ben Franklin told us "in wine there is wisdom... in water there is bacteria." And no one knows more about bacteria than Mr Pasteur who said "Wine can be considered with good reason as the most healthful and hygenic of all beverages." He's a smart French scientist for all you deniers out there with no possible hidden agenda.  Be fit as a fiddle and drink more wine. Wine is more healthy than an apple a day, and according to American smart guy B. Franklin each glass of liquid sunshine also reduces stress because "wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance." Don't just take his word for it...we also know laughter is the best medicine according to Reader's Digest and Goethe who say, "Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues." Be virtuous, drink wine... and more importantly America,  be eloquent AF! (SMH). If you want to write good, drink wine. R.W. Emerson knew that "A man will be eloquent if you give him good wine." So time to be like Aristophanes and "quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever." Otherwise, I'm like all the other hash taggers and Art Buchwald,  "when it comes to writing about wine, I do what almost everybody does - fake it." It may be cliche to say but don't wait for me to give you all the answers. A watched pot never boils. Go out and win one for the Gipper. Find your own solution in every bottle cuz you'll only have yourself to blame if you don't. Make other people more interesting and beautiful and drink wine... the rose colored glasses of life. It will increase your odds of not going home alone by a gazillion percent. Like shooting fish in a barrel. Remember, beauty is in  the eye of the beholder. Wine has the answers to all your problems if you face them one day at a time. You can even cook with it... maybe even add it to the food. Forget about the curveball, Ricky, give them the [fastball] and show them The Way once "They drank up the wine, and they got to talking, they now had more important things to say."