Spending Quality Time

brightleaf · Oct 19, 2017

Understanding relationships and being able to benefit from them is always desirable. Tobacco is an ancient life form that became well known to the wider world almost as soon as the New World was discovered. Tobacco affects what many consider our Higher capacities, our ability to cogitate, to gain perspective.
When the world starts to get out of control, we just have to pull out our tobacco tin,

gently pack our favorite bowl, and reset our path to somewhere we have not been.

If your problems are more vexing, and everything seems strange.

The solution isn't perplexing, given more time all things change.

How many missteps has tobacco saved us on our journey?

cosmicfolklore · Oct 19, 2017

I tend to smoke through all of life's major changes... and minor ones... and non-changes... while eating breakfast...

heck... I tend to smoke all the time, but nice sentiment. It should be a greeting card. : puffy

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warren · Oct 19, 2017

Man! Imagine what Stalin would have been like if he hadn't smoked a pipe!
or, if Holmes was a real person, not a figment, an eccentric one, of Sir Arthur's mind. The great Mr. Holmes can also be used as a "poster boy" for drug use.
I've not found the pipe makes anyone smarter, more humane, etc. There are no magical/mystical powers to be found in pipe smoking. Certainly it may be an adjunct some use for calming down or focusing. But, that's not the pipe ... that is the person smoking the pipe. Many other tools are available which can help, wood working, painting, writing, simply sitting under a tree and watching the world go by. Meditation helps some people become "centered." Simply listening to a particular type of music can help a person clear and focus the mind.

didimauw · Oct 19, 2017

I like that picture, it's eerie yet heart warming!

brightleaf · Oct 19, 2017

I agree with your points Warren, there are many aids for mindfulness. Mr. Holmes was unique in his early portraying of plant based aids to help him focus his mind and do "work". There were some efforts made late in the last century to discover relationship/mind enhancing drugs, but the Feds put an end to that by scheduling them out of the hands of even trained therapists.

http://www.maps.org/images/pdf/1985_riedlinger_1.pdf

While smoking a pipe is not making us smarter, it can be used as an adjunct for reflection, an excuse to listen instead of talk, an opportunity to slow down, and a chance to reign in our emotions. It isn't the only way, it just happens to be the way I prefer.

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