It's a Goal

 I want to say that in this world today, I refuse to stress.  I began taking to a kind of calmness after we moved to NY, but it began in our apartment after we sold our house.  Some might think there is a kind of security with home ownership.  But I found the opposite to be true.  Ownership of anything, including investments all have their own stresses.  And for some security and owning a home is a kind of security that most people want.  In my own way, I agree with this thinking, but I also believe ownership of anything has its stress.

However, it is what it is and I work at being calm in all circumstances.  My wife will tell you that I sometimes fail at being calm, and my sleep pattern gets disrupted from time to time.  But I have my way of falling asleep at night and usually I get a good night's sleep.  As I mentioned before the news of the day can get to me and when it does I'll seek a diversion of most any kind.  But smoking a pipe helps to keep me to be relaxed.  

I separate the news of the day from my life.  In NY, it was our deck.  I just enjoyed being surrounded by the woods in NY, but sometimes it was just a little too peaceful, quiet, and isolated.  Smoking my pipe on the patio of my son's house was the best.  I like our lanai, but it seems someone is either mowing across the canal or there are construction workers making a lot of noise.  Often though it is quiet and peaceful and I enjoy looking at the water and watching the boats go by.  

I won't say that living in Cape Coral is like living in the city, but it is more like living in suburbia where there is traffic noise with the occasional siren.   But over all it is often quiet and peaceful.  My goal is to seek the peace and calm.  I don't let the noises disturb me too much and I find sitting by the water quite peaceful on the lanai.  I know we won't be here much longer, so I'll enjoy this while I can as we seek our next place.

I just don't want to allow my thoughts to cause me stress.  As we consider our next place, my only requirement for it is that there is a lanai where I can smoke my pipe.  But I'm not stressed by the thought of leaving here.  We may live with my son again for a couole of months as we get settled into a different place.  I don't stress about it because I know we'll find our next place that will be just right.  

We don't have to be on the water as we are right now.  We looked at one place which was off a busy road.  I didn't like the location of that place.  One place had a nice lanai, but a wooden fence was the scenery.  I don't believe there are many places like this one, but when we find a place, we'll know it's the right place.  Cape Coral is a nice community, but it's a little more expensive to live here.  There are 400 miles of canals in Cape Coral, so many people live on or near water.  

We'd like to stay in Cape Coral and we're looking at places near where we are now.  But a lot depends on what we find at what price.  But meanwhile I'll smoke my pipe and just not stress about it.  I don't need to stress, but if I do, it can have an impact on those around me.  With rare exception I simply refuse to stress.  But it happens.  When it does, I'll relax with my pipe.  When I do this I'm able to say that all is right with my world.  And almost always my thinking is correct.  Today it is my Savinelli Author pipe with some Rum and Maple.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave