There is a Reason
There is a reason why my blog asks if you are 18 or older. I write about tobacco use and tobacco products including pipes. But I also can write about anything I wish. I can write the word "sex" without getting into issues, but the fact is that I can write about most any topic I wish. But if we're to be over-the-top religious or political, I could get flagged. But this blog is about my pipe of the day and tobaccos.
I have been about as "adult" as I want to get. This blog site has rules. So, in order to stay within the rules, I won't go beyond that which I have written. Currently I am working on my wishlist for the Smoking Pipes website. I have been shopping for what I think might be good English tobaccos. I guess one could say I have been like an old professor to my family, but while I might have the educational status of one who could be called "learned," I see myself differently.
One of my son's visited Oxford University while he was in high school and I wanted him to bring back for me an Oxford sweatshirt, which I have worn proudly. There is an inside story to that sweatshirt I won't share here, but there is a way I interpret the Bible that is quite unique. My thinking is that if my interpretation was acceptable to most, I could teach theology even at Oxford. But that is all I will explain about it.
I once had a seminay professor who once said that a particular understanding could open the doors for a person to teach theology most anywhere. I assumed that meant Oxford too. Not that Oxford would allow me to do so, but in my thinking it could. But my interpretation is so different I doubt my understanding would be accepted most anywhere, but I AM a dreamer. So, ending up at Oxford was just a fantasy. Yet, somehow I believed.
So, maybe I am like a frustrated old professor that only taught my family. Even my wife tires of hearing about hearing it from me, but it is how I think in regard to all of life. Religiously I could be most anything, but I just call myself a Spiritualist. That won't open many doors and certainly wouldn't get me to Oxford, but I always believed it could.
So, that is on my mind this morning as I smoke my St. Nicholas pipe with my Autumn Evening. Maybe I am just an old "wannabe professor" but maybe I qualify for having taught a few and still do. So, I decided last evening I would order eight ounces of Old Professor English tobacco by Cornell and Diehl. No, it won't get me to Oxford, but that sweatshirt from Oxford is a reminder that I could. Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.
Dave
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