What I Need

 I need to be balanced.  And for me that is a lot of work.  Smoking my pipe helps me to do this.  I can have manic highs and depressive lows.  It takes work for me to remain balanced.  I'm not an evil crime fighter like a super hero.  But I could say anything that fights evil is good, in whatever form that might be.  Goodness is my friend.  You can take that any way you wish.  One doesn't need some kind of belief in something to be inherently good.

As I've said before what matters most to me IS Human Life.  I can't prevent people from dying, but I don't want anyone to choose when that will be, not for anyone else or for oneself.  My cardiologist once said that this world is a stressful place for the way I think and believe.  

So, I smoke a pipe.  I did prior to my heart attack and have since.  The only thing I have changed is that I hardly ever smoke a cigar.  But once in a great while I'll have one, simply because I enjoy a good cigar a few times a year.  But they just can't be Churchill's or anything like that.  They have to be relatively small like a Hemingway Short Story.  Once a year I have enjoyed a Signature, which is by far my favorite.  But I digress.

Stress is my mortal enemy.  Anything I do to keep stress to a minimum is best.  I am most relaxed with a pipe.  I know I have said that here so much, but while I build theme parks when I'm manic the other end is a very dangerous place to be.  My pipe helps keeps me balanced.   I can build theme parks, but I never reach the point where they are where I live.  They're fun to visit as they are for anyone who has hopes and dreams.  

My thinking is that goodness builds.  And evil destroys.  I work very hard to keep my thoughts positive, because what is the alternative?  There IS power in positive thinking as Norman Vincent Peale says in his book.  Everyone faces adversity.  But adversity is what teaches us to remain positive.  Nothing is better for a person than being positive and always looking on the bright side.  No one wants to be around downers.

A smile is always better than a frown.  Encouragers make the best bosses. A scowling boss is the worst kind of boss.  We work to make bosses happy.  But when workers constantly complain, they become the worst workers.  It takes a team working together to build.  I just hate being down, but I also fear being manic, because that isn't reality.  Reality and facing reality requires balance.  And balance takes work.  And for me it takes a lot of work.  For me, it is a full-time job.

Some might see me doing nothing but sitting there smoking my pipe.  Actually, what most anyone does not see is my mind at work.  I need the quiet and the calm in order to work.  This is when I work the best.  But I need to do nothing at times but just smoke my pipe.  This is when I can see the Spirit at work.  If I know the Spirit is working I can be my very best.  

So, if I'm seen just smoking a pipe, I'm not just relaxing smoking a pipe.  I'm doing what I do best.  I'm letting the Spirit work.  This is what I'm doing this morning as I smoke my other Nording pipe with some Epiphany Blend.  Maybe I just need more Epiphany moments.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave