odds are before you finish the first bowl full you will be completely hooked again. Care to go thru quitting again?
Patrick Moore <bertin...@gmail.com> wrote: >"Pipe". This sort? > >[image: Inline image 1] > >15 years after quitting a 25 year cigarette habit I was very tempted to >take up a pipe (again) when a friend gave me a very nice briar and a >can of >top unscented Virginia. I didn't, though. > >Tell me why I shouldn't take it up again. > >I have to say that the art (for art it is) of pipe smoking, with good >briar >and good Virginia, must be one of the most pleasant sensory pleasures >granted to man. (Well, perhaps after *that* and *that*). > >I stoutly maintain that pipe smoking (good briar, no damned scented >tobacco) is very Rivendellian. (Expensive and arcane. Juuuuuust >kidding.) > > > > >On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Deacon Patrick <lamontg...@mac.com> >wrote: > >> 8 miles on the Quickbeam on a route I often do. Down to Holy Rosary >and >> back. Recovering from a number of things that hit last week, I wasn’t >sure >> if I would be able to get out today. I did my push-ups and squats, >and that >> helped get things flowing to the point I was on the edge, so I >decided to >> give the ride a go. Met the family after Mass (I can’t go because of >the >> scents and other stimulation), and they joined me at a nearby park, >where I >> sat on the periphery with a pipe and watched three families of kids >play >> Capture the Flag. One of the dads came over and we chatted a while. >Then I >> rode home. WHt amazing, simple joy! >> >> I’m struck once again at the wondrous gift the bike is and what it >helps >> make possible! Rides like this are less about the bike or ride and >more >> about what they make possible. >> >> With abandon, >> Patrick >> >> *www.MindYourHeadCoop.org <http://www.MindYourHeadCoop.org>* >> *www.OurHolyConception.org <http://www.OurHolyConception.org>* >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, >send an >> email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to >rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > >-- >Resumes, LinkedIn profiles, and letters that get interviews. >By-the-hour resume and LinkedIn coaching. >Other professional writing services. >http://www.resumespecialties.com/ >Patrick Moore >Albuquerque, Nouvelle Mexique, Vereinigte Staaten > >************************************* >* "Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to >never >was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from >it. >Where is there a place for you to be? No place.* >* "Nothing outside you can give you any place," he said. "You needn't >to >look at the sky because it's not going to open up and show no place >behind >it. You needn't to search for any hole in the ground to look through >into >somewhere else. You can't go neither forwards nor backwards into your >daddy's time nor your children's if you have them. In yourself right >now is >all the place you've got. If there was any Fall, look there, if there >was >any Redemption, look there, and if you expect any Judgment, look there, >because they all three will have to be in your time and your body and >where >in your time and your body can they be?* >* "Where in your time and your body has Jesus redeemed you?" he cried. >"Show me where because I don't see the place. If there was a place >where >Jesus had redeemed you that would be the place for you to be, but which >of >you can find it?” -- *Flannery O'Connor,* Wise Blood * > >-- >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. >Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
