You're great at #community building, Joan! My condolences (I didn't know!) to @fionasfavourite ("Tom passed away early June 2023") and Lizelle ("Arthur would pass in July a month later.")

Wow, that stings! Do the new hires have masters degrees now? My author friend, age 60+, says all the editing jobs go to 20- and 30-somethings. And not because they work for lower wages. They get paid MORE

Millions of us pay $$ for video games, phones, movies, tech - but ask someone to pay for a song on Spotify or bandcamp, and they slink away. Ask them to tip a blogger. Or subscribe to a news source.

Your family probably is far less crazy than you think. Doesn't everyone think their family is crazy? Aren't we all crazy? If you were born and raised in Florida, you may have a bit more "claim to

A bible in one hand and a shotgun in the other That's the line that caught my eye, too. And of course the Pentecostals, slain by the Spirit, speaking in tongues... And the whole story: Dad gets custody

Ohhhhh to witness that tragedy. Historic. Cannot unsee....

Thanks for asking. I'm mostly ok. :) We had someone at Steemit/Hive with Lyme in her user name. Can't find it now... I had sent you a book on how difficult it is to diagnose Lyme, wondering, at the time,

Two months - it took me that long to find this post!! (Where has my mind gone??) Great prompt - sorry I missed it! But like you, I don’t like to think about my father very much. That's all the farther

This book is one @owasco would love. (Have I sent you links already?) Both of you are already doing the things that heal us. The Connection Cure The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service,

Wow! I had no idea they grew so fast, so tall, so thick, they screen out the neighbors. What is the Midwest equivalent... How enterprising of you to grow and sell these! And you mention weighing only 96

What a concept! (Caulking gun). Wharton's jelly - inject! inject! inject! Quack doctors book hotel conference rooms for free seminars aimed at senior citizens, pitching their injections of stem cells into

You're transferring more than 380 plants to bigger pots? Do you sell these as house plants? (Yes, I could search your blog for previous posts on areca palms!) Sounds like this plant offers many health

Yes, you will be back on the river! Maybe the surgery really isn't the answer - maybe the hand pain would be alleviated some other way. I've lost faith in surgeons. Somewhere else today I read of a woman

You highlighted the same passage that caught my eye - offering it up can "unleash an expansive love upon the world. It cannot be otherwise." You wrote so eloquently of your mom - and your brothers!

I'm sorry for all the frustrations and complications to get simple medical care! T waves are spiking, surgery is delayed, you're still in pain, and I pray you get good medical (or herbalist) care sooon.

Oops, the quote indents got lost up there. Well, you could probably guess whatever is under the hyperlink is a block quote. :)

Your mom, and the flowers.... God picks the flowers (our young ones, lost too soon)... Did she say something about stars as souls, too? "Maybe hell is where we are now" - it makes sense to me!

Thanks @honeydue. Yes, he is right, but @owasco is also right. We are all a work in progress. Some of us achieve phenomenal things. Some of us just put one foot in front of the other each day, get up,

I love you @owasco!!!! You call it like you see it - and you see it the way I do. Thank you Thank you THANK YOU Yes - we are ok! This young man whose hell would be meeting the person he COULD have been

Wait, he pays their dowry, and he intends to marry all 100 girls himself...? This is not a joke? This too is no joke: “I say to every young man looking to get married — marry into a family of five or more