Writing for a Small Audience

 I don't write for click bait and I'm not seeking a large audience here.  Sometimes life throws us curve balls we don't expect.  I'll read a news item and will wonder if I want to write about this or that.  I'm not writing about sensationalized events, but I might think about or ponder something for a few days before writing about and throwing in my two cents, for what it's worth.

You won't see anything earth-shattering here, and some subjects I find too delicate to write about from my own perspective.  But I'm not a very verbal person, however, I find writing as an outlet.  I'm not trying to give advice, but from where I sit, I'll think about something and often wonder how I'll say what is on my mind.  I realize my life is different and has been for decades.  

So, I write from my perspective and how I think about this or that.  I enjoy smoking my pipe, like my Boswell this morning, and my wife knows when I am lost in thought, and indeed, lost is often where I am.  My mind often goes off in tangents that often has nothing to do with anything.  But that is the way I am.  I watch so many vids on YouTube that give me so much to think about.  And I keep abreast of the news that often I feel overwhelmed by information.

And I find it so hard not to think aboit either religion or politics, but I am finding these days I get overloaded with both.  I have a very simple religion, if one wants to call it that.  When pipe smokers gather to share tobacco and converse there is one basic rule:  No discussion of religion or politics.  My best conversations have been with other pipe smokers.  And this is a rule that I want to live by.

After a day of absorbing information about both religion and politics, after five in the evening it is time to just shut down for the day.  After dinner, I will go to oir room and spend the rest of the evening mostly watching YouTube vids that have nothing to do with anything important.  I have my favorite subjects and I might relax by watching a few ASMR vids in regard to relaxation.  Most of these might be scenes of nature with soft background music.

But I do whatever it takes to switch off my somewhat active mind.  I could get carried away with anxious thoughts, or dwelling on the past, which I try hard not to do.  But even during the day, I find that smoking my pipe helps keep me focused and relaxed.  When I feel stressed my mind goes everywhere.  But when I am relaxed I am focused.  I find I do my best writing while smoking a pipe.  I do my best thinking with a pipe.

The first thing I do in the morning after making the bed is choose a pipe for the day.  Even that is a ritual.  I don't rotate my pipes as many pipe smokers do, but will look at them all and think about which of them I haven't smoked in awhile.  Then I sit down and begin to read and see if there is anything I want to write aboit.  This is how these posts come to fruition.  Today I am smoking my Boswell with my first bowl filled with Early Morning Pipe and feel quite relaxed.  We'll see what comes up next.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave