From Where I Sit

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 It's early morning, but after sunrise.  I wrote this yesterday, but from where I am sitting this morning, all is right with my world.  But I can't say all is right with THE world.  In fact, I could make a list a mile long of all that is wrong with the world.    But this blog is not about either religion or politics.  I can't say it is not about either tobacco pipes or pipe tobacco.  It could be about me or what my wife says or has told me, but it is about what is on my mind at any given time.

But, and I won't say anything about it, I live with a tremendous amount of hope.  This world WILL change.  And it will be for the better.  We are NOT doomed.  I saw that Lake Mead could rise as much as fifty feet.  And the Euphrates is revealing its ancient history of past civilizations.  Yes, rivers all over the world are drying up.  People just might not survive without these rivers.  Even the mighty Mississippi is not immune.  But do not despair.  I am an eternal optimist in all things.  

I find looking at photos and videos taken the world over gives me a snapshot of the world as it is.  I can sit in the comfort of our lanai and see current images of anything I want to see, including photos of our universe going back 13 billion years.  I can see it all from the comfort of where I sit.  Nothing I want to see is hidden from my eyes.  Maybe I can't peer into Area 51.  My curiosity of what is there has not been extinguished.  In fact I have a curiosity about that which every government wants to hide.  

But the fact is, from the comfort of my chair there is no part of the world that is hidden from me.  All information is at my fingertips.  This is a joy I have in living in today's world.  We've done as much world traveling as we want to do and have settled into a fairly quiet and peaceful lifestyle.  I just finished a bowl of Old Professor in my Peterson System pipe and am now smoking the last of my Tropical Expprt until my shipment of tobacco arrives.  Some say being comfortable is something to avoid, because life is to be lived outside your comfort zone.  

I've spent over three decades outside my comfort zone and I might argue that only recently have I been in any kind of comfort zone.  I have earned the right to be here.   But still I can't ignore what goes on in the world.  I'm not sure anyone in today's world has a comfort zone, but as they say, ignorance is bliss.  There are those who are clueless about the goings on in today's world.  But I say to myself that all bad news means there is room for improvement.  This is my hope.  But it's only been until recently I have been able to think this way.  

I simply refuse for anything to change my mood.  I see room for hope and a lot of it.  I could say it is easy to relax with a pipe, which is why I think everyone should smoke a pipe.  But I have said too that I am not an evangelist for pipe smoking.  Everyone needs time to relax.  Maybe this is why from where I sit this morning, this world could look a lot worse than it is.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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