Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 It’s Black Friday and the craziness begins.  People start lining up in front of stores on Thanksgiving in hopes of getting that special deal.  Not me.  I avoid the masses like the plague!  I once found a deal at a Best Buy and found out I had to stand three hours to check out.  It wasn’t worth it.  I put the item down and left the store.  People fight over deals.  In fact it has gotten so bad extra security guards have to be hired to keep the peace.  But still we have errands to run today.   My wife does all the shopping but we discuss things together.  We pretty much know what we’ll buy each other.  If we need something we just buy it throughout the year.   But every year for the last few years I’ve asked her for a red Speedo.  That’s pretty much over her dead bod, she says.  I’ll never get one and she wouldn’t be seen with me if I did.  I still picture Santa lounging on the beach while wearing a red ...

 For me, Thanksgiving is a celebration of life.  I’ve written a lot about my angels but without them I wouldn’t be writing today.  So, I give them credit for life and living.  Thanksgiving is a special time of year for me and why the season is so important to me.  I get emotional about my angels if I think about them too much. It’s just a special time of year for me.  But I do think about every day as a celebration of life.  But sometimes life and living gets in the way.  So, I cherish my quiet time and being alone so I can reflect without too much emotion.  I guess I could say every day is a celebration of life, but it loses its meaning if there isn’t a special time of year,  I look forward to this time of year every year. In a way, it gives me something to live for as I live my life.  But it’s just Thanksgiving is special for me and I never forget.  Life is to be celebrated every day and as I get older I’m thankful for life e...

Last night was my 32nd anniversary of my experience with the angels.  They came to me at 11:30pm and we talked until 2:00am.  I’m remembering how I felt the next morning.  The whole world looked different to me.  In a way it looks different to me this morning.  At exactly 11:30 last night my wife called my name as they did 32 years ago, except she wanted me to do the trash. My task then was to just get better.  And I did.  I was a completely different person and have been ever since.  But I had a life to live and a family to help care for.  But I’m trying to remember as much as I can from 32 years ago.  The world was different then.  There was no internet.  I couldn’t share my experience as I am doing this morning.   I told three people about my experience.  I was told I hallucinated, I lied, or they were demons.  Angels don’t do things like that, I was told.  So, I was quiet about my experience and kept it ...

At the end of this presidency or towards the end the Messiah will come and set up His one thousand year reign of Peace and Love.  Will He arrive by spaceship?  Some have speculated that just maybe 3I/ATLAS has something to do with the Supernatural in some way.  I’m unable to speculate on that.   There is still much I do not know except to say that we are near a new beginning.  The old order of things is about over.  I do not know HOW the Messiah will do it.  First is the battle between the heavenly hosts and Satan’s army.  But it will all be over very quickly.   As to how the Messiah dies all this I have no idea.   But I believe God’s Angels are on this earth now to prepare the way.  They have some help with people like myself who know and believe.  But I believe the Judgment will be quick.  Everything will happen quickly.  And right now there are those proclaiming for the coming of the Messiah.   What am I suppo...

 I won’t go into detail as to why I believe we are living in the Apocalypse.  I could just say, “Believe me.•. My Angels told me 32 years ago the Tribulation was already here.  Advance 32 years later and I believe the Apocalyptic Age is upon us.  I could point to many things, but doing so involves politics so I won’t go there.  If I didn’t know what I already know from my Angels and putting things together from the book of Revelation, I can see it all now.   I would be doing my Angels a great disservice if I were quiet, but in a way I am happy only a few read my blogs.  I was chosen 32 years ago to finally reveal what I have been waiting for.  And I’ve waited a long time.  I can’t boast about my Angels and try not to.  They simply opened my eyes to the book of Revelation in the Bible.   I am a revealer of sorts, but more than this.  In order to make some kind of proclamation, I first had to know.  The Apocalypse ends with ...

 If I weren’t calm and cool on the inside, it would show on the outside.  It has been almost 32 years minus a few days since my experience with my Angels.  And I’ve been waiting some 25 years for the Messiah to come.  But I’ve never lost my patience.  Great things take time.  I know this.  But I’ll remain calm and cool while waiting. Meanwhile, all I have to do is live and I do my task.  I keep telling my wife I haven’t done much for my Angels but she reminds me that I’ve done a lot.  I do it by remaining calm and cool.  Being impatient with God will not help.  I can’t lose my patience.  If I have learned one thing from my Angels it’s patience.  It may not seem I do much these days, but I’ve done a lot for my Angels.  And in small ways I keep doing it.   It may seem all I do is smoke a pipe, but my mind is very active.  I believe in the power of thought.  I let others come to me rather than to seek out ...

I spend a lot of quiet time on my Angels.  Doing so gives me comfort in a crazy world.  The less I am around people the happier I am.  But I meditate on my Angels and the things they said to me.  I can’t forget.  What good am I if I forget?  The 32nd anniversary of my Angels will be in a few days.  I get pretty emotional during that time.  I remember how the Angels made me feel.   And sometimes that feeling comes over me quite unexpectedly at times.  They never let me forget and along life’s way they’ve given me reminders.  I have  to remember that Jesus died for every single sin but the intentional taking of Human Life including our own.  This is why balance is so important to me.  I can’t get too down and I must control my anger and my hatred.   This theology doesn’t let me do as I please.   Laws have consequences.  And I will help prepare the way with Peace and Love.  But this is just for me fro...

I have felt heaven, but I’ve never been there.  I have said that if you got ten thousand theologians to describe heaven collectively they wouldn’t come close.  I have seen YouTube vids describing heaven, but again these are using earthly understanding.  I wish I knew.  I know the feeling of heaven, but not knowing what it is like.   Heaven doesn’t depend on belief.  Just respect for all human life.  If we knew what heaven was like, according to my Angels, we would fall all over ourselves to get there.  Death is loss for the living, but it is eternal peace and love for the dead.  Respect for all human life including our own is all that matters to God.  But I am the only proof of this.   I have no proof otherwise.  I represent my Angels in how I love.  This is all I can do.  I can interpret the Bible to fit my theology I inherited from my Angels but I had to change how I interpret the Bible from cover to cover.  Bu...

 I do my best thinking before noon.  If I haven’t thought of something to write about here by noon, I’ll just wait.  By early afternoon I get tired.  I have but a few people I contact and most not very often.  But by noon I’m tired of thinking.  This is why I write in the morning.  I get ideas from many sources and I follow the news but avoid writing about religion and politics except for my Spirituality.   I mention my Angels often, but this is because they are my obsession.  I like Buddhism philosophy as I find it keeps me close to my Christian roots.  Quoting Jesus is too controversial,  although Buddhism can be controversial.  But lately I have been focused more on love than Peace, although both are important to me.   If I don’t have something meaningful to say I’ll wait.  But writing keeps my mind sharp.  There has been a lot of excitement here in this house because my son got his YouTube channel back. ...

 It used to be that churches were the foundations of a community .  But this isn’t true any longer especially among those who grew up with the Internet since the early 2000’s.  The Internet has changed everything about life.  Most of us can’t live without it.  Communities have grown out of the Internet.   I have a small community that reads my blogs or at least clicks on them.  Communities have evolved around ideas.  And now people gather in front of their computers and Smartphones and read information and share. Google and AI can answer most any question.  I have the Bible downloaded into my phone.   There is a need for personal contact with people, but that need is being met in other ways.  Churches are where young people my their spouses, but there are all kinds of dating apps if one is interested.  Communities can be world wide.  We’re no longer connected by proximity.  A church with four walls and a steeple is no...

 Of all the Aromatics I keep gravitating to is Captain Black Cherry and will even smoke it in my Dunhill.  Even a novice pipe smoker knows that is sacrilege.  But I do it anyway.  My wife was sitting at her desk and could smell it a hundred feet away.  She said it smelled good.   But I decided to ream my pipe this morning and pack it with the cherry tobacco.  I received the tin yesterday and knew my wife would like the room note.  I don’t have to smoke much of it to review it.  I’ve had it before.  I may have reviewed it here in this blog.  I reamed out my Dunhill this morning and that took about a half hour to do.   Caring for pipes is essential for a pipe smoker.  Once in a while I’ll buy an aromatic.  I still have some Captain Black Original left.  There for a while I was smoking Autumn Eveving .  But I got kind of burned out on Autumn Evening.  But as an Aromatic Captain Black Cherry does it for me....

 I sit here this morning wondering whether 3i/ATLAS had any thing to do with the solar flares that caused the Northern Lights to be seen almost over the nation.  This was an unusual phenomenon.  Someone suggested that maybe 3I/ATLAS is coming to pick someone up.   This, whatever it is, still has the attention of many, myself included.  It’s getting closer to Christmas now and my wife suggested the family have a Christmas wish list on Amazon.  So, it’s not too soon to be thinking about Christmas, but 3I/ATLAS might be close to earth around that time.   But are the northern lights a reminder it’s still there?  I don’t know.  It’s all speculation on my part.  But NASA now is pretty closed lip about it.  It does make me wonder.  But personally I’m not worried about it but I wonder about it.  It makes me wonder as to just how the Messiah will come.  Will He arrive in a spaceship of some kind?   I’ll wait His arrival a...

 Spirituality is not religion.  It’s more about quiet meditation and personal growth.  My experience with my Angels made me quit being religious.  The theology is too simple now.  There are no rules nor are there any kind of group worship sessions.  Jesus died for all sins but the intentional taking of any human life. I believe in the power of thought.  It might look as though all I do is smoke a pipe, but the fact is I believe in the power of thought.  My Angels said I would do something and I do it by living.  In a way I give powers to others.  This is my role in life these days.  I listen and I am alive.  In a way I am at one with the universe.   I may have done what my Angels said I would do.  There isn’t much more that has to be done before the Messiah comes.  But I do my task rather quietly.  We may think there is power in strong voices but real power is being quiet.  There is a sense of purpose i...

 People come into our lives for a lot of reasons.  I’m pretty selective about whom I choose to be in my life.  This includes those who are my friends on FB.  I keep a lot of my life private on FB for a reason.  I just don’t let anyone in on my life.  It keeps the numbers low but that is because I don’t want a lot of distractions from what I do for my Angels. I’m very selective about whom I wish to share my life with.  And my wife keeps me informed of those things that is important enough for me to know.  But my numbers are small on purpose.  Everyone serves a divine purpose in some form or another.  But too many diverts my focus.  It may seem I smoke a pipe a lot.  But when I am smoking my pipe, I’m either writing, meditating, or in some cases I am reading.   I just don’t want to lose my focus if there are too many people in my life.  As I have stated, I purposely keep the numbers low on purpose.  I am not an inf...

 Life is always about balance.  We work but not too much.  We play, but not too much.  We can love too little, but then we can love too much.  I could post on FB too much, but then I took some time off and learned I can post too little.  I could smoke my pipe too much, but I’m not sure I could smoke a pipe too little.   I meditate while smoking a pipe and I’ve learned I CAN meditate too little.  Everything about life is about balance.  I can get into college football too much, but I’ve learned to save Saturday’s for watching college football.  I know I can smoke my pipe too much.  And life is balanced so that I don’t meditate too much but just enough.   I’ve had to learn how to balance life.  I can think about my Angels too much that they become an obsession.  In fact I can obsess about anything too much.  And I have to be careful that even posting on FB isn’t too much.  I can think too much.  And I hav...

 There are many things involved with smoking pipes.  The care of a pipe needs many things.  One can’t just buy a pipe and smoke it.  First and foremost are pipe cleaners.  After every bowl a pipe cleaner is needed to clean out the summer and make sure the passage way is clear.  Sometimes alcohol is needed along with the pipe cleaner to make sure the passage way is clear.   Cake will build up inside the bowl so a reamer is necessary to make sure there is not too much of a build up inside the bowl.  Some pipe smokers only light their pipes with matches, but I use a Zippo pipe lighter.  I need flints, wicks, and lighter fluid for my lighter.   I also have a pipe ashtray that doubles as a pipe rest and ashtray with a cork knocker.  I also have storage humidors for my various tobaccos.  A cloth isn’t necessary, but I always have one handy.  And maybe last by not least is a tamper tool for tamping down the bowl as it is smoked. ...

 Every place we have lived has had a place where I could smoke my pipe and the very occasional cigar.  I have to admit that cigars aren’t the best smelling in the world except maybe to a cigar smoker.  I just want a place where I can smoke a pipe.  A famous Christian Swiss psychiatrist, Paul Tounier, wrote a book with the same title as this post.  A perfect place for me allows for my smoking a pipe.   I read that book and I read something he said in his book that made me so angry I threw his book against the book case.  My wife would come in and straighten my office but I told her to leave that book where it fell after I threw it.  What’s so funny now years later I re-read that book and for the life of me I couldn’t find what he said that me so angry at the time. I could go back and re-read many books I’ve read and get a different meaning today than I did back in my younger days.  Age gives us a different perspective on life.  And such a...

 Both Savinelli and Peterson come out with Christmas pipes every year.  I have one and it’s a Savinelli I smoke year round.  It is now part of my rotation.  It has a green stem with a white and gold band.  It is one of my favorite smoking pipes.  The style is called Oom Paul named for the designer of this particular pipe.   What is special about an Ion Paul pipe is that the smoke from the bowl wafts upward toward the nose of the pipe smoker.  This is the only Oom Paul style of pipe I have.  It might be a little early to write about Christmas pipes, but they are special pipes and once they are gone one has to wait for the next season to buy one.   These pipes are not sold year round but come out about mid October and once they are gone that is it for the season.  Obviously they celebrate Santa’s pipe he smokes as he does his rounds Christmas Eve.  Santa has smoked a pipe since Clement Moore wrote The Night Before Christmas. ...

 I’m going to smoke certain pipes less now.  It’s Sunday and for several years I have smoked my Nording Angel pipe every Sunday.  And my Dunhill won’t be smoked as much any longer.  I’ve received a lot of enjoyment from my Dunhill.  But both these pipes, while not retired, are going to be smoked a lot less now.  I have many older pipes I have not smoked as much and a few newer pipes that need to be smoked more often.   I just have some pipes I smoked on a regular basis for a few years and decided to change up my rotation after a couple of favorites broke.  I have a few pipes I have retired completely.  I’ve found through the years of pipe smoking I no longer need pipes costing much over $50.   I have. Dr. Grabow freehand style pipe in my wish list on Amazon costing $70. But I told my wife I can get good pipes from Smoking Pipes for $50.  I just don’t need any more expensive pipes costing over a hundred.  I still have plenty of ...