Not Just for Me

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 I have watched all the YouTube vids on pipe smoking I’m going to watch.  I’m not going to buy many more pipes.  I have my favorite pipe tobaccos.  I have been posting vids of myself almost every morning for a reason.  It’s to show close friends and family I made it through the night and that I am okay.  I’ve made a post in the evening the past couple of nights.  I write for my wife first and then anyone else who wants to read them.  

I’m getting up in years and in a way my writings are diagnostic tools for my wife so she can tell how well I am doing mentally.  I don’t say a whole lot except in writing and this way she can tell where my head is at.  I told her that I need to do something different and she suggested a new hobby.  I thought to myself that I smoke a pipe for good reason.

Besides which I need my time for meditation and my pipes are tools for that.  I do watch a lot of YouTube vids and try to think of a different topic every day.  I think I have seen every pipe smoking vid YouTube has.  But I try to come up with fresh topics and like to see what YouTube has for me each day.  

I got into Columbo recently after watching his shows back in the 70’s.  And there for a while I was watching The Chosen until about the middle of the series and knew it ended.  I loved that Jesus in the series!  But I like the quiet of meditating.  And for me, I don’t have the attention span to binge watch something.  It’s hard for me to sit through a movie without dozing off.  

No, I’ll keep my pipes and pipe tobacco as my hobby and smoke my pipes while meditating and watching YouTube on the lanai.  I just have a short attention span for anything but YouTube these days.  And I can always find something of interest.  Most vids are no longer than a half hour and if they don’t hold my interest I’ll just find something else.  After my wife reads this she always lets me know with an emoji text as to whether she liked it.  And it lets her know exactly how I am doing.  I thought about a vid at the end of the day to let everyone know I’m not in jail, or the psych ward, or worse.  But once a day is plenty!  So, when you see my vids just know I am okay.  Actually, I’m not doing too bad for being almost 75.  But in fifteen years I have nearly died twice.

My pipe this morning is my Rosedale pipe from the Tinder Box at the Rosedale Mall in St. Paul, MN back in 1976.  My coffee this morning is Blue Bottle coffee.  Thank you for your time and Peace and Love to each one of you’

Dave

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