Hello my friend @gabmr, You are so kind! I had cake for breakfast :)) Birthdays are not the time for self control. I hope you are having a wonderful weekend. No matter our age, each day is precious. Life

Thank you @coinjoe. I do feel blessed. I wake up every day and am grateful that I have another chance to share the day with those I love. The greatest gift. I hope you take that walk with your family,

Thank you for the happy birthday. I hope your mother is well and you tell her often that you love her. One day those little expressions will mean a great deal to you, when she is not here anymore. Your

Thank you! It was heaven. I had one more gift, which was harder for them to give: no negative talk for the rest of the week. I like peace, and sometimes people disagree with each other, or they complain

Of course I get money :)) If my marriage works, it may be because each of us has our private money. Not much, but enough so that the other party has no right to ask where that money has gone. It's sort

Hi, I think I might not have been clear enough. I was responding to this statement: If the S&P 500 goes down much more I think I’ll be buying into some index funds myself. Of course I do not have

Chicken Ranch: A notorious house of ill repute in Pahrump. I don't know if it exists anymore.

I think if people understand how companies are valued and what the stock market is based on, it creates a lot of opportunity for retail investors to make money off the stock market while Trump is president

Great blog. Necessary blog. I would like to suggest a bit of a change in the analysis of uncertainty. I would suggest that uncertainty really began on January 20, 2025. It is a geopolitical fact that

What does he mean? Mercy always, for the sinner, no matter the sin. But retribution, protection of the innocent, admission of guilt, punishment. Pastoral attention to be sure, if that means guidance to

That may be the best thing I read today: a child with a happy childhood.🌷

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I relate to so much in your poem. These thoughts especially, So I keep this story alive inside me...I tend to the soil, prune the branches ...the maps still have white spaces and the compass, it only points

So sorry!! My fault. All fixed :)

What a lovely family...especially the three of them together--though, I think the one with grandfather and granddaughter walking away is my favorite. A beautiful environment for your daughter to grow in.

Wow! The Thurber Prize!! Congratulations. A great honor to be remembered for family and for yourself.

Of course cats belong in a scene that involves incantations :) Very nicely done, @argeh. Thank you for this great collage and for participating in the round. I am gifting you 2 HSBI tokens in appreciation

Congratulations to everyone who entered this round, and congratulations especially to the winners. This was a complex template I think, and our collagists did such a grand job. See you all next round.

I just can't do it...can't turn myself over to a machine. At the beginning of the automobile age maybe I'd have been the last person in a horse and buggy, but this is different. This is turning our will,