Early Morning Pipe
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presentable to sing for my old friends funeral on Monday. Since he was
my guitarist I will have to sing acapalla. I couldn't spell that if my
life depended up on it! Tim D. come to my rescue. Yesterday in the
late afternoon my son built an outdoor campfire and I went to sleep
beside it. The smell was so wonderful outside. It reminded me of the
many years of outdoor fires that we built in the Rocky Mountains. The
temperature was about 50 degrees and the leaves have all turned now so
we will have the long fall that is so typical of Oklahoma. That is one
of the things that I love about this place. It usually doesn't get
cold here until late December and we don't see snow until February.
That period of snow and ice usually only lasts about two weeks.
My 4 year old grand son was by my side at the campfire and he is
so delightful to be around, I love the child's curiosity at his age
now it is my duty to keep it going. I have seen so many children lose
that curiosity because they were told directly or indirectly that
what they were discovering about life was unimportant. Such a shame.
As a former teacher I regret that I could only help so many overcome
this attitude. If I could reach immortality it would be only to teach
others to keep their curiosity. As I contemplate these things I am
smoking Frog Morton in a 1954 Dunhill Canadian Billard.
John in the Indian Nations
Charles
Well said John. The thing I try to nuture in my students is
being able to think and creativity.It disturbs me to hear people say
someone is born with
a gift for music or painting or dancing or whatever.
Everyone. has the ability to create at any age if it is nutured & one
works at it.
That creativity is born out of curiosity IMHO
You have reached immortality John if you have taught just one to keep
that curious nature.
We as teachers have a habit of having what i call the Jesus complex,we
want to save them all, whether they want to be saved or not. We are
all teachers.
Thanx John for starting my day in an uplifting manner.
Amazing what smoking a pipe does for one's philosophical thought
process.
Off the soap-box.
Filled a smooth canadian w/Cognac last night to dry. Enjoying it
now w/hot green on the side, Charles Laughton on the tube as
Rembrandt.
Funn
Tim D
Morning John and Gentlefolk. It's Bullseye in an Ardor Giove Nindea:
http://www.pacificapipe.com/mypipes/agn/index.html. The spelling is
Acappella, or A Cappella, John. I'm sorry you lost your friend. When I
taught Lit. at U., I cherished creativity, but concentrated on getting
my students to rediscover their wonder about life and the cosmos
again--to break out of their conceptions (fostered by their
upbringing) that they, or me, already had the answers. May your
pipes be ever sweet. Tim in Pacifica.