I Took the Plunge

 I took my first plunge into Social Media Wednesday evening for the first time since my heart attack in 2011.  There were stresses with social media that I no longer wanted.  I decided to just drop all social media all together thinking it caused me too much stress after so much discussion with my experience with the Divine.  I didn’t think social media was a healthy outlet for me and may in fact contributed to my heart attack.  

I decided on a different approach instead saying in my introduction to myself the date of that experience and the fact that I am a pipe smoker of fifty years.  I included or maybe excluded any ties to where I worked or what I did excluding also any ties to a hometown, colleges, and my seminary.  I want to begin with November 25, 1993 to the present without any ties except for my wife and my one son.  

My other son being a public figure would bring too much unwanted attention to me being his father.  I prefer now to just focus on two things.  My focus is on the experience itself and the fact I smoke a pipe.  I prefer to shun all politics and stay away from any religion as much as possible.  I think I learned a valuable lesson last time around and I want to keep it as simple as possible.  

I am going to go very slowly and want to associate with groups related to these two subjects only.  I’ll choose friends carefully, but I will post my blog posts on my account focusing on these two topics and these two topics only.  I’m somewhat nervous about getting back into social media again and it might be best if I keep everything I do narrowed to Angels and pipe smoking.  

I might be too idealistic about what social media can accomplish, but in some ways I’m thinking I can’t stay hidden from the world.  I tend to keep everything close to vest, as they say, but I’m not going to open to the world as I did before.  I learned a lot the last time around and I do not care about numbers.  I find the various posts I see as somewhat entertaining and most are ads about others I could follow.  But I’m keeping my own profile as neat and tidy as I can and move very slowly.  

I’m nervous about getting into social media again. But I won’t concern myself with numbers, likes, or followers.  I’ll be concerned only about my own content and my own friends.  I’ll be very choosy and selective.  Even with this blog, I care if no one reads it, but I do not care about hits I get.  I have become increasingly introverted since my experience 31 years ago, but I do feel as though my experience and my thoughts need to be shared.  But numbers don’t concern me.

I will always feel my quality is what matters.  I’ll let my Spirit Guides worry about the quantity.  My focus will be and always has been on the quality of my work.  I’ll never again worry about quantity as I did before.  

Why the difference?  I really don’t care whether anyone reads this post.  I post it, send the links, and let my Spirit Guides worry about the rest.  I need to learn again how Facebook works and I don’t want to be overwhelmed with quantity.  I was before.  So, I’ve learned a lot since my heart attack and I don’t care about exclusions.

I want these blog posts to be my best.  I’ll work on that the most.  I’ll do it while smoking my pipe and I have to remember my Spirit Guides come first above all else.  I do it for them; not for myself.  I must remember this in all I do.  My Spirit Guides must always come first.  If not, the quality of my work simply won’t be there.  This morning I am smoking my Birthday Savinelli pipe with the last of my Old Professor tobacco.  My coffee  is Stumptown Holler Mountain.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave