Happy Times

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I'm a baby Boomer and I know with some things I say and do that the younger generations might say, "Okay Boomer" rather sarcastically.  I'm not far from being 73.  And I know for some of you that is getting up there.  Because I smoke at all, the Death Clock says I should have died in 2016.  I almost did in 2015, but not from tobacco.  So technically, my life should have ended then.  I was in the hospital for nearly three weeks recovering from a ruptured appendix. 

But when there are so many reasons to live, death takes a holiday.  Which is a title of a 1924 Italian play.  I won't get into that, but in my case, it applies.  My Spirit Guides say I'll help prepare the way for the Divine Intervention to come.  Only time will tell whether they are correct.  I've told my wife rather jokingly that it's my fault it hasn't happened yet.  But then I may have already done the work.  All I have to do is live and they'll do the rest.  This is my thinking.  

But while I can worry, worrying about death isn't one of them. My thinking is that I just don't sit around smoking my pipe.  I am to be quiet until I'm needed.  I might be revealing more than I should, but I'll know.  Don't ask me how I'll know, but I will.  The world is being prepared and maybe I've begun with this blog.  My brushes with death were both a part of it.  I just hope God doesn't do that again.  

But I look back on the 50's and 60's with fondness in spite of Vietnam and the social unrest.  I was living in small town America at the time and was quite removed from all that evil.  My wife and I both have that in common.  And I think that is why I enjoy a quiet life.  But as I said before here so many times, I kept the music.  My kids grew up listing to the Beatles and other 60's groups.  It's part of their DNA.  

But even with my own kids growing up in the suburbs, it gave them relatively quiet youthful years.  They had access to the city I didn't have.  But I never worried too much about them.  And I think we gave them childhoods they can look back on with fondness.  But instead of my waiting to die, I am waiting to live.  As Mark Twain once said of himself, rumors of his death were greatly exaggerated.  I feel the same way.  Those are just rumors.  This blog is proof.  I am very much alive.

It's just that by living and being alive I am performing my task.  Maybe this is all I have to do, at least for now.  When I blow smoke from a pipe, it is as if I can see my breath.  It is proof I am alive and living.  And usually I am quite upbeat about life.  I have so many reasons to be alive.  I can stress about life, but when I do I just need to take time to connect with my Guides.  This is in part why I smoke a pipe.  Doing so keeps me calm and relaxed.  My pipe this morning is myPeterson System pipe and my tobacco is Lane 1-Q.  My coffee this morning is from the Blue Bottle coffee company.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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