I like the closeup of the doorway. Those figures help me imagine the St. Petersburg of Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy. Especially Dostoyevsky. I came across The Idiot when I was an adolescent and was wandering

When all my siblings were alive, and my nieces and nephews were young adults, they used to sit around and make fun of us. We had a great mother, so we are all productive, independent adults. But each one

My ankles hurt just from looking at that rocky root filled trail. 😄 It's funny...when I was a child I lived at the edge of a forest/mountain. Our daily activity (nearly daily) was to go up into the forest

Thank you for sharing my post with the community. I'll tell my daughter her photos were much appreciated. I'll tell the dog too. He's so smart he might actually understand.🌞

What's that saying? What doesn't kill you makes you stronger? Sorry, I'm not going to laud your parents because you ended up OK. Better than OK. Wonderful. Admirable. Strong. But what a waste of a childhood.

Thank you, @discovery-it! Your support is much appreciated🌞

Thank you very much @esther-emmanuel. Your acknowledgement is greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much, @jotakrevs and @curangel. The support and acknowledgement are greatly appreciated.

I really wish she would join a hiking group, but she likes to get in touch with nature when she hikes. People might be a distraction. I'll have to check out your post to get a report on that:)

Isn't he the most delightful dog? My daughter adopted him as a rescue about two years ago. Here he is in the kennel, asking to be adopted. Who could turn that face down? He is her travel pal now. Too big

My daughter is very generous.She always shares her trips with me by sending me photos.This area is very similar to the area I grew up in. Forested mountain terrain. When I was a child we didn't call it

Since February of 2018.

This is lovely, @jalal0410. Thank you for reading the rules and following them. It's refreshing when someone joins the community and has made the effort to be appropriate.

My granddaughter had a ticket for a trip, direct flight from NY JFK to Nashville Tn. Her morning flight was cancelled. The afternoon flight, 1118, was no longer direct. She had to connect in Boston. Flt

I just am cautious about going on about how good we had it, because that's unfair on the young folk. My nephew grimaces at that, and I get it. I don't think I ever go on about how good things were. Anyway,

One trip on an airplane should be enough to stop anyone from taking an airplane ever again We stopped flying years ago. I swore the only way I'd fly is if I could go on a private jet. And that's not happening.

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I'm always going to want to beat dog shit unpickerupperers with a piece of driftwood I think that's perfectly reasonable. I mind my own business, generally. I don't really care if my neighbor is fastidious

Is it Ok to nominate someone else? (I'm doing OK myself 😇--don't need encouragement). Someone commented intelligently on one of my posts yesterday. Brand new, seems eager and intelligent. I delegated

For me the dominant affect of this poem is mood. I think you capture a mood of being between, of going forward and remembering--vaguely. The past is always a part of us, and yet it fades, becomes at times