Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 Both are rather controversial and I understand this.  But when you are given so much space to work with - I just do my best.  And I have purposely limited my tobacco choices because I no longer have the room for storage.  And I don’t buy many pipes any longer and receive most of my newer ones as gifts.   As for the Angels I don’t defend them.  I state what I believe now and leave it at that.  A pipe smoker is usually quite the gentleman or gentle lady as the case may be, since more women are taking up the hobby.  In some ways I miss the chivalry of days gone by but I don’t believe that those days are totally gone.  I’ve been to a number of cigar bars and I don’t see chivalry as being dead.   But there is something special about a person who smokes a pipe.  A pipe gives time for thought before speaking.  It used to be said that congressmen who smoked pipes had their own club with a few women invited as well.  It is said th...

My wife and I are getting ready to summer in upstate NY in a few weeks.  I sat on the lanai this morning smoking my pipe and listening to Sunday Morning Coffee and I began to wonder if I liked Sunday mornings in NY over Sunday mornings in Florida.  I’m not crazy about the overall solitude of NY.  It rains more in NY and if it rains here in Florida I am sheltered by the lanai.  If it rains in NY, I am relegated to smoking my pipe in the garage.   Each has its own likes and dislikes.  I like suburban living over the country of NY.  But there we are surrounded by woods and wild life.  There are always chores that must be done—even on Sundays.  I love sitting on the deck of our NY home and smoking a pipe.  The deer often ramble through our yard after emerging from the woods behind.   I have a lot of photographs of deer.  But summers in NY are best.  The quiet of Sunday mornings in NY can’t be had anywhere else.  The woods...

 About seven out of ten adults in the US believe in Angels.  It seems like most people want to believe that Angels are watching over them.  CNN just had a headline saying more Gen Z are turning to organized religion.  A more common belief was that they are falling away from it.  But it seems they aren’t attending the mega churches, but are finding faith in smaller congregations.   I wouldn’t go so far to say that the prosperity gospel is dying, but it seems that there is a kind of overall feeling that the only ones who are rich are the leaders.  Smaller congregations share the wealth.  But over all people are believing in something that gives them protection in life.  With so much uncertainty, Angels are a simple belief that offers something substantial.   A belief in Angels has little to do with a religion, but is more personal.  I promote my Angels but try to stay away from too much religious thought.  My theology is quite si...

 I don’t really care about numbers.  Some days they’re high and some days low.  I write mostly for my wife and close friends.  If I cared, I’d worry about it.  My wife always gives me her reactions to most anything I do.  I figure I do things on my phone that maybe Angels don’t do.  I do it for them too. Some days I bomb and some days I hit home runs.  It might depend on when I post, but I’m most active on social media in the mornings.  I slow down as the day progresses.  Numbers just don’t matter to me.  My thinking is that all I have to do is represent my Angels in all things and they will do the rest.   What matters to me are two basic things my Angels told me.  One is that I will lie to see the arrival of the Messiah, and the second is that I know HOW He will judge when He arrives.  The rest they told me applies pretty much to myself.   I know many will talk about the dead and what they are experiencing. ...

 I have my earthly Angels.  For me, they are close friends and family.  My pipes help me stay connected to my heavenly Angels.  There is power in thought and meditation.  Some might call it prayer, but in a way I don’t ask God to do such-and-such, but it’s more like I will God to act.  It’s more like believing in the power of Angels to act.   But why the pipe as a tool?  I asked my Angels whether I had to give up my pipes.  I had already been smoking a pipe for twenty years, and I wasn’t sure I was ready to give them up.  They said it was up to me.  I chose to make them tools for meditation.  This is why I meditate with a pipe.  I know my Angels don’t care as long as a pipe is more beneficial than harmful.   I wear an Apple Watch for health reasons.  I have other watches I can wear while charging my Apple Watch but I hardly go anywhere without wearing it.  I like to check my BPM once in a while.  I chec...

 I’m posting this post this morning, but mostly I wrote it last evening after eight.  I was going through my YouTube offerings last night and decided I’ve had it with information for the day.  I just wanted to smoke my pipe and listen to the quiet music instead.  I’m an old guy who smokes a pipe, but I’ve always relaxed with my pipe.  It’s why I smoke one main tobacco.  My brain gets tired of thinking.   I miss the old days when a pipe smoker can just light their pipe most anywhere.  I used to have my own office in our home where I’d just light my pipe and work.  I used to have many cellared tins and jars, but these days I sit out in the lanai and smoke what I have.  My son has tens of thousands of followers in FB and I have my few.  I did this on purpose.  Few is best for me.   I seek a quiet life these days, but I believe more people need to smoke a pipe—not fewer.  A pipe gives one time to pause and reflect.  ...