Pipeology - The Fine Art of Pipe Smoking and Thought

 When I'm deep in my Spirituality I have a sense of everything going on around me.  It's more about what I feel as opposed to what I think.  I am to receive my Carter Hall later today and can't wait to try it.  Tobacco has a tendency to keep me settled down both about my Spirituality and about life itself.  My pipes serve a Divine purpose although most wouldn't think so, but tobacco adds to my Spirituality. It makes me more reflective and I focus on my feelings when I smoke a pipe.  I can't say how it does this, but it is a tool used to connect me to Spirit Guides.  And it's more about feelings than thoughts.  I simply feel connected to the Divine with a pipe.  Of this weren't true I might not have a reason to smoke a pipe.  My tobacco choices are a big part of it.   I wish I could say how or why, but it's more about feeling connected.  I think more about my feelings when I'm smoking a pipe.  I could go days without a...

 My wife and I joined the gym this past week and I used the treadmill yesterday for the first time.  When I finished my T-shirt was soaked with sweat.  I set it for a cardio workout and walked for a mile in twenty minutes.  I probably won't do much more than this although I coukd get into light weight lifting.  But I've learned that any exercise is good.  College football was on yesterday but I only watched one full game last evening. I will watch no pro ball today.  Instead I will focus on my Spirituality today.  As I said in an earlier post yesterday, I need to limit my football viewing.  Football could very easily take over my life and I watched no analysis this past week.  I simply decided my Spirituality comes first.  And it is way to easy for me to get distracted and I could make football my life.  I could very easily fall prey to the gym taking over my life, but feel a few times a week at the gym is plenty for me. ...

 I'll watch one game today, but won't watch very closely.  I'll check the scores at the end of the day and won't watch the pro's tomorrow.  I've found that football interferes with my Spirituality. I said I could give up my pipes, but I've found I am smoking less.  I find most anything could be a distraction and the fact is I don't like distractions.  I'm listening to light rock love songs as I write this post.   But why?  I find music relaxes me.  I write from my heart and not my head ot at least try to.  I think too much as it is, but I'd rather write from my feelings.  What I feel are my Spirit Guides telling me I need to relax more and think less.  I like to stay informed about the world, but I've found too much and I think too much.  What is it about Spirituality that makes me feel and what do I feel? I feel connected to the Spirit world.  I can feel a Spiritual connection to the dead if I allow for it.  I d...

 Okay, so I've said pipe smoking is a hobby, but I guess one could say that I'm a serious pipe smoker.  The other morning my wife and I ran some errands earlier in the day than usual because of the hurricane.  We live in Florida and we live in a place that has little impact from this storm.  But as I was watching about the hurricane from the Weather Channel, I took some time to place my next order of tobacco. I got eight ounces of Lane 1-q, which has become a favorite Aromatic.  I have plenty of my own blend and that should last me until I need to order again.  But I placed an order for a fourteen ounce can of Carter Hall tobacco.  Why?  I've never had it.  I've tried all the OTC blends and found my least favorite to be Mixtire 79.  I can see why Hef liked it, but I hated it.  I've tried them all and have had the cheapest and the most expensive.   I could be a Balkan smoker, but find most Balkan blends to be too expensive....

Dice Van Dyke hopes to make it until his 99th birthday in December.  In a way, I hope he does too.  He was in Mary Poppins and had his own TV show with Mary Tyler Moore.  But it might seem to some that maybe 99 is too long on this earth.  I have some good news for Dick Van Dyke.  He hasn't much to worry about in regard to death.  And really most don't.  There are those who have taken Human Life for whatever reason, but Dick Van Dyke doesn't have much to worry about.   I can probably say this about most anyone.  Sure murderers walk among us.  And God doesn't punish for lesser sins.  Some might think my smoking a pipe is a sin.  But it's not, even if it does shorten my life.  I'm just not worried about it.  In fact, I'm not worried about dying at all.  I worry more about pain than I do about death.  But I can find nothing in Van Dyke's life that would negate heaven for him.  And the good news for him...

 I understand the Grace of God and my goal is to be as forgiving as I say God is.  But forgiving all sins except for murder and suicide can be a tall order even for me.  And not everyone understands God's Grace as I claim to understand it.  I don't worry about salvation in regard to anyone in my circle, but I have.  But as Jesus gave His Discioles to God's care, in a way I have to, but I had to learn.   My Spirituality focuses on the needs of others and not so much for myself.  But for too long I was too inward.  I am branching out more to others.  But for a long time I had convinced no one of my experience with the Divine.  But now I have convinced a few, but not in all things I claim my Spirit Guides told me.  So, this past 30 years has been a very long learning curve.  The first ten years was the hardest.  The second ten years I had two close calls with death.  And now the third ten years has had a lot of unde...

 Maybe I watch too much football and maybe I smoke my pipe too much.  I paid attention to three college football games and four pro games between last Friday night and Sunday night.  After it was over Sunday night I mentioned to my wife that I need to give up football for awhile.  I felt it was interfering with my Spirituality.  Then while on the subject I suggested that maybe my pipes do too. She told me not to be foolish.  Football is the best diversion from life and this blog is called "Pipeology."  But maybe I could do less of each.  I told her I can feel disconnected from my Spirit Guides when I watch too much football and that maybe I smoke my pipe too much.  Maybe I can skip days, I said.  She suggested I wouldn't be able to skip days.  So, I'm not giving up football and I won't skip days smoking my pipe. But I feel good that at least I am thinking about my Spiritual needs.  Do I smoke more while watching football? ...