A Place for You

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 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 as it was with this particular book.  What bothered me when I was younger no longer bothers me as I am older.  Our perspective on life changes as we get older.  

But I have smoked a pipe for more than fifty years and each time I light a pipe I am carrying on a tradition that goes back literally thousands of years.  But my thoughts as I smoke a pipe are different today than they were fifty years ago.  I’m still meditating as I smoke my pipe, but my thoughts are different now.  I didn’t come of age until I was 42.  

Now I smoke a pipe with the wisdom and maturity of a 74 year old.  And my thoughts are different now.  All I want in life is a place to smoke a pipe.  I feel a pipe and time for personal meditation are important for me.  Today I am smoking my Peterson Irish Harp pipe and my tobacco is Cordial.  Thank you for your time and Peace and Love to each one of you.

Papa Chasteen

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