Alfonzo Williams The Experience Cigar Lounge isnt just another spot to relax its a milestone for the community
"I have, come to believe," he writes, in Le Tragique Quotidien, "that an old man seated in his armchair, waiting quietly under the lamplight, listening without knowing it to all the eternal laws which reign about his house, interpreting without understanding it all that there is in the silence of doors and windows, and in the little voice of light, enduring the presence of his soul and of his destiny, bowing his head a little, without suspecting that all the powers of the earth intervene and stand on guard in the room like attentive servants, not knowing that the sun itself suspends above the abyss the little table on which he rests his elbow, and that there is not a star in the sky nor a force in the soul which is indifferent to the motion of a falling eyelid or a rising thoughtI have come to believe that this motionless old man lived really a more profound, human, and universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who gains a victory, or the husband who 'avenges his honour.'" That, it seems to me, says all there is to be said of the intention of this drama which Maeterlinck has evoked
The adult smoking rate in the United States plummeted from about 40 percent in 1970 to 20 percent by 2004, but it has leveled off since then
While saving a half-smoked cigar is acceptable, sticking it back in your humidor is a bad idea, unless youre in love with the charred, sooty smell half-smoked cigars emit (even after theyve stopped burning)
