I'm Weary

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 Okay, I admit it, I'm tired.  I almost decided not to post this morning, but in my news feed this morning was article after article about a former president of the US.  I'm tired of reading about him.  Okay?  I don't care what your politics are, but I'm weary of article after article about him.  

Secondly, I am physically tired this morning.  I mean I am on the verge of exhaustion.  And maybe that has some bearing on how I feel mentally.  I'm just tired.  I smoked my pipe a lot while in NY, but I didn't have the time to sit down and just enjoy it.  I had far too many interruptions.  I guess you can say I am complaining this morning, but really, some of us older folks don't need all the chaos of the world.

Our personal chaotic lives simply lead to a kind of weariness about all the things going on in the world, including the Maui fire.  I am so sorry about what happened in that beautiful island.  I could be cynical about Willie Nelson's house being spared, but I won't.  I really am happy he won't have to rebuild.  But he is just one of a very lucky few.  Like I said, I could sit here and wonder why his home when so many are homeless, but I won't go there.  

It's not just one or two things, but while I can't complain that it's age catching up with me, I might say physically I simply tire more easily.  But at least this morning I have time to drink some coffee and smoke my Alpha pipe, which was a Christmas gift from family years ago.  It is indeed a fine pipe.  And I'm kicking back with some Autumn Evening in my pipe and looking at an overcast morning sky after a brief morning rain, from the comfort of our lanai.  

My body is tired, but my spirit is strong.  I try not to let the things of this world get to me.  When I have the opportunity to sit with a pipe, drink some coffee, and gaze out across the canal, I know all is right in my world.  The world could go to hell and from where I am sitting this morning I may never know it.  At least not for awhile.  I'm not tied to my phone 24/7, but it's always next to me.  

When the world gets to be too much, just take your shoes off, sit back, relax, and tell yourself everything will be just fine.   It will.  Everything always works out for the best.  But if for some reason it doesn't, what can you do?  Sometimes relaxing IS the best medicine.  If you've done your best with what you have to work with, you deserve some R & R.  You've earned it.  Enjoy a pipe or meditate as you wish.  The world won't blow up and you won't either.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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