If only coffee were still 5 cents a cup... I suppose my pay check would probably be smaller as well. This mug is reminiscent of 'good ole days,' when everything was cheaper, work was manual labor, there was no internet, medicine was a bottle of alcohol and herbs, and coffee was over roasted and over brewed. Doesn't sound so good when you get down to the ins and outs of everyday life. Yet we all hear about how great it was back in the day when you walked uphill to school in the snow (and inexplicably had to return home, again, uphill and in snow). I will concede that fresh cream from grass grazed dairy cows was probably pretty awesome and potentially balanced the coffee of yesteryear, but that's probably one of the few wins. I think we like to romanticize the past as a simpler time and that's true, but we also spent so much more time struggling to stay alive. Now we have time to enjoy things and create, for instance, well-brewed coffee in the mornings in an array of mugs, but with the luxury of time comes new ephemeral problems that torture us by threatening to make life difficult. Gone are the days the beasts crouched in the woods waiting to attack. Now it's simply the crushing threat of debt, poverty, inequality, health, and keeping up, constantly threatening us and eliminating the thrill and euphoria of having physically fought the beast and winning the right to live another day. The only solution is to substitute the thrill of the fight, with a warm cup of coffee on a quiet morning appreciating the peace.

I was both surprised and not surprised to flip this mug over and find it titled "Good 'Ol Days." Of course, it is titled that. Branded by Revelations, which smacks of religious undertones but I cannot find the Arizona based company through Google Searches.