Pipe smokers

Let me just say that I'm not a pipe smoker and I never will be. I gave up smoking along time ago.

But on the last day in Budapest, these pictures were taken in a novelty shop near Vaci utca, a touristy part of Budapest. Andre, Noel and I were drawn in by their crafty display from the street of things including colorful clocks that were made in the form of firetrucks and unique, hand-crafted boxes and trinkets. In the back corner was a section full of pipes. Noel and I were posers on this one but it was a moment. :D


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One of my favorite authors was a pipe smoker. Here's a few quotes from C.S.Lewis

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way."

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

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So as you contemplate life this weekend, smoking a pipe and reading a good book, here's to your goals and dreams. May they not be "pipe" dreams! :D