Happy New Year’s Eve

 One of the things about my smoking a pipe is that I stay out of the way.  I’m not hanging around the kitchen, but with houseguests for the holiday I am out of the way.  I could be doing other things than just sitting here smoking my pipe.  That is a New Year’s resolution.  I have too much time to myself.  But as long as I keep my weight down my wife approves of my smoking my pipe.  

When I had my heart attack I was about 30 pounds overweight.  And I was smoking too many cigars.  I have my favorite cigar about once a year.  And I’ve shed those extra pounds and kept them off.  One of the benefits of smoking tobacco is that it suppresses appetite.  I’d rather smoke a pipe than anything else.  I don’t crave cigars and never have.  I gave up pipes for a while in favor of cigars and smoked pipes on occasion.  

But these days it is strictly pipes with the aforementioned cigar once a year.  I watch my weight closely.  But at least my wife approves mostly because she knows I’m right here out of the way.  It’s hard to be retired as I f often feel I need to be doing something.  But I meditate on many things.  I let my Spirit Guides worry and do the work for me.  

I can get too involved and I want to keep things simple and I think my going to the gym more will help me focus on just one thing at a time.  Otherwise I get to thinking about one thing that leads to another and so on.  I can think of too many things at once.  My wife knows when I’m lost in thought.  I’m thinking about too many things at once.  My Spirit Guides can do that because there are too many things.  

I need to focus on one thing at a time.  It’s why I enjoy college football.  It helps divert my thinking processes.  But I’ll work on that.  My Angels gave me a lot in two and a half hours and I’ve covered those things.  I have to have diversions and I’m hoping going to the gym more will just keep me focused and think about one thing at a time.

That way when she does talk to me I’m not lost in the fog of thought.  And it can foggy.  I’ll admit it.  But my pipe helps keep me focused this morning I am smoking my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with Berries and Cream Aromatic pipe tobacco.  My coffee is from the Blue Bottle coffee company.  Have a great New Year’s Eve day and Peace to each one of you.

Dave