Pipe smoking often seems to the uninitiated like a series of rituals, as though it might be an offering of sorts to some pagan god ... none of the myriad of details, including the packing of the pipe, however, it unimportant to the enjoyment one can derive from pipe smoking ... although I've been smoking a pipe for some 40+ years, I don't pretend to be an expert of any sort and will freely admit that I learn constantly from the experience of others in this forum and elsewhere.
This forum is comprised of pipe smokers at every imaginable level of experience, many of whom generously share their knowledge with the rest of us ... and every one of them has something to offer the rest, including some of the newer, less experienced smokers who sometimes have learned some very interesting things almost as if by sheer fortuitous accident ...
It's a wonderful thing, this place ... the concentration of accumulated knowledge and experience to be found here is unlike anything else to be found outside such a gathering ...
+1, jservant98