Something Different

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 My wife and I had a heart to heart talk the other night and yesterday morning I woke up feeling nauseous.  I decided it was stress I didn’t need.  I’ve said here about all I’ve needed to say and yesterday morning I watched car chases from LA on YouTube.  I watched some football analyses on the games from Saturday and decided I had said enough about Spiritual things.  But why car chases?  Because I enjoy watching them.

One car chase involved a Corvette that reached speeds of 160 mph.  The news helicopter could almost keep with it!  I hate to see crashes where innocent people get hurt and I hate to see officers draw their guns.  But most of the time no one gets hurt and the officers catch the drivers without having to draw their guns.  But I enjoy seeing the drivers get caught.  

The fact is I find these videos to be a distraction for me much like college football is a distraction for me.  I can only spend so much time on Spirituality and I need something completely different.  My Spirituality is an obsession if I let it be.  And I have to have something different.  I can be one-dimensional and I don’t want to be one-dimensional.  

It is to easy for me to be obsessed.  And when I am, my wife is good at pointing out I need something different.  Most cars can do a hundred mph, and sometimes on surface streets the chase is too dangerous for police to follow.  Most of the time on freeways the police are involved.  Sometimes the fleeing drivers get lost in downtown LA because of the buildings and various parking garages.  If the car has been stolen sometimes the drivers get away, but not too often.

I don’t want to see them get away, but it’s the end that is most fascinating.  I just enjoy the chase as long as no one gets hurt.  Some videos are fairly short, but once in a great while they can be an hour longer or more.  I can listen to the chase as reported by the reporter in the helicopter and I can be doing other things and listen.  But they are something different.  And when I am stuck in a Sporitual grove as I can so often be, I need something completely different.

I can get stuck in football analyses and I can get stuck on car chases.  I enjoy videos with scenes of coffee houses and light music, but I have to have variety .  It’s why I have so many pipes.  Variety is good.  My mind can get stuck no matter what it might be.  I need different tobacco all the time.  But fortunately for my wife I am stuck on her and have been for fifty years.  Stuck on love is okay.  But I prefer not to be stuck on a pipe or two.  Anything else needs variety.  Today it is my Tim West pipe with Golden Days of Yore pipe tobacco and my coffee this morning is Mexico la Concordia.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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