Coffee and newspapers
In my house, my wife's morning mood is closely tied to coffee and the newspaper. When she has the caffeine and the paper and ink, she is on her game. When one of the two are missing, watch out.
I hear from a decent number of people that their mornings follow the same trajectory. (I love these people!)
Juan Antonio Giner has been posting photos of this worldwide morning ritual. It's a fun series. He refers to it as a new metric: The future of newspapers depends … on how many people drink coffee while reading newspapers.
(Personally, I'm thinking that he's missing the third element -- cigarettes -- but the tobacco industry has its own challenges.)
Anyway, I'm afraid his is not a new metric but rather it's an old one. This is a ritual that the Greatest Generation and the Boomers have. A part of me wishes that more of X'ers and Y'ers practiced it, too. But there are plenty of inspirational images to go around. The next photos to post, Juan Antonio, are of people drinking coffee and reading, listening and watching the news on their computers and PDAs.
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