Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

I've been told my tobacco reviews are good.  Okay, as an English blend just by itself, I really ebjoy Haunted Bookshop by Cornell and Diehl.  virginia tobaccos are naturally sweet and while it might have a touch of Perique, there might be more there than I like.  The flavor is spot on.  But the Nicotine in it is just too much.  I'm not ordering any more Gambler tobacco, but I had some in the humidor container that is over a year old.  I had to check it out to make sure the Gambler wasn't moldy or stale.  The humidor isn't airtight, but close to it and I figured there was about six ounces I had left. I have a scale I use for weighing tobacco, but my thinking was that I had about six ounces of Haunted Bookshop just by itself.  I'm currently searching for a good Aromatic much like Gambler I can use as a blending tobacco once this is gone.  But to the twelve ounces of the blended tobacco, I blended in about two ounces of a rich black Cavendish....

 I thought about this the other day as I thought about turning 73 in a week or so.  My Spirit Guides have done a pretty good job of caring for my body.  I still get around pretty well and some man bagging at the grocery store called me "son" the other day as we were checking out.  And I almost told him how old I was, but bit my tongue when I began to realize he wasn't all there.  Each encounter I've had with him hasn't been pleasant.  But I came to the conclusion he had mental issues.  But he's the wrong person for customer relations and decided the store wasn't sure where to put him. But all that aside, I decided that for being 73, I'm not in too bad of shape, both mentally and physically, for my age.  I tire easily if I do too much.  This is why I want to get back to the gym.  I need to build my stamina.  And the heat can get to me.  But overall there is nothing I can't do if something needs to be done.  I'm just a littl...

I've asked the question whether my thoughts are just thoughts or whether they are actually prayers.  And what is the difference?  I've found there is no difference.  At least for me there isn't.  My wife has had pneumonia for over a week and she gets more of my attention, but do I just think about her and her illness, or am I spending time in prayer for her?  It's both.  I've learned that thoughts are very powerful. I wrote about this the other day, but wanted to contiiue writing about it, because I think time I spend alone gives me time to think, reflect, and ponder.  As I said the other day there is power in being positive.  So, I'm thinking there is power is positive thoughts.  But when I take time to connect with my Spirit Guides, I'm thinking there is nothing they can't do.   Being around people more gives me less time for quiet meditatiion.  So, I'm thinking God wants me to have my quiet time not so much for myself but fo...

I'm a baby Boomer and I know with some things I say and do that the younger generations might say, "Okay Boomer" rather sarcastically.  I'm not far from being 73.  And I know for some of you that is getting up there.  Because I smoke at all, the Death Clock says I should have died in 2016.  I almost did in 2015, but not from tobacco.  So technically, my life should have ended then.  I was in the hospital for nearly three weeks recovering from a ruptured appendix.  But when there are so many reasons to live, death takes a holiday.  Which is a title of a 1924 Italian play.  I won't get into that, but in my case, it applies.  My Spirit Guides say I'll help prepare the way for the Divine Intervention to come.  Only time will tell whether they are correct.  I've told my wife rather jokingly that it's my fault it hasn't happened yet.  But then I may have already done the work.  All I have to do is live and they'll do the re...

I think of my Spirit Guides as Stress Managers.  In 30 years my Spirit Guides have removed a lot of stress from me.  I don't worry about death and dying.  I can worry about pain, both physical and psychological.  I should have no worries and little stress.  But I'm not totally cut off from people.  For a long time I wanted too be, but more recently I find I need more people in my life and not fewer.  But I want to add more slowly.  And only a few know the secrets between myself and my Guides and I'd like to keep it that way. But I realize in today's world it's important more know me without my revealing those secrets.  What's important is that I don't cause MORE stress for others.  But people in general can be cause for stress.  Situations can be stressful.  And I don't live a stress-free life.  It might seem I sit around smoking my pipe.  I'm doing a lot more than just sitting around.   I'm doing the  ...

 The whole world could just go to hell.  But for some reason I'm some kind of crazy old man with a smile on my face.  I don't believe for one moment it will.  I inherited my mom's optimism about life.  She was the most upbeat person I have ever known.  One of the things my Spirit Guides left me with was mental health.   I don't smoke a pipe and sit around and ruminate.  Been there done that.  I don't look at my past and wish.  I have lived my life so far as my Spirit Guides wanted me to live it.  But most of all and maybe most importantly, I am not anxious about the future.  I have no anxiety about my own future.  I smoke a pipe to focus on the now.  I'm not sure I can say a lot more in the blog I haven't said, but I write to keep my mind sharp.  And I explore many things and ideas throughput the day to think of things I want to say. But back in the 50's futurists were optimistic mostly about nuclear energy....

I 've been working on this one for about a week and think I have it now.  Instead of my writing about two different lives, I now say the first 42 years of my life prepared me for the next 30 years.  This is how I see it.  I have had two lives.  Anything prior to my experience with my Spirit Guides were just preparation for what was to come.  Before I lived with belief and after I had limited knowledge.  So, whenever I reminisce about the past, especially going back to the 50's and 60's, all that was preparation for what was to come. I wanted to write about my two lives, but really I've said a lot about them.  It was Thanksgiving night in 1993 when everything changed.  And I simply cannot forget.  I don't mind re-visiting the past, and as I said in my post the other day, I listen to a lot of music from about the mid-60's to the mid-70's.  That whole decade brought the world the best in pop culture.  There was just so much good music ...