It is a beautiful and somewhat tragic story, and sometimes I feel like we all have these and we keep them locked away in our own little treasure boxes inside. In a way, it is an act of bravery to share

There's an old marketing truism that if you offer people "free beer and barbecue" they will come to you in search of free beer and barbecue. The point being that it's very difficult to get people

It was a good movie, and just a cool overall experience!

In that case, you'll probably be disappointed. It's not a fast paced movie; it's very true to the original Dune book which was also more about human stories within stories within backstories. Absolutely,

No spoilers! This is more a background story about the movie; backstory about Frank Herbert and a small town where he once lived.

If you look at a photo like this, it's not hard to imagine where the Isle of Avalon and the mists of Avalon were derived from...

It's an interesting and amazing place! It has been so long, but if you stand up there and look towards the nearby town of Street, you would be able to see where I went to boarding school in 1976-78...

Thanks for the warm greeting @fernanblog! I thought it would be interesting to share some things from my life, and also start creating some posts on Hive that are a little different from my normal content.

Well, I've "been around" on Hive for a very long time, but I just haven't written about collecting before, for whatever reasons. I subscribed to this community a while back... but I am finally

It must be very difficult to manage, with the NGN having lost so much value since the middle of last year.

Thank you! The stamp collecting was started when I was very young, and it always interested me because I enjoyed writing letters the old fashioned way, and had people I knew all around the world.

Thanks for the welcome @mipiano! I do really collect all sorts of things, so it was not so easy to make a post to cover everything at once. This was just a taste, but I plan to come back with more posts

I can totally empathize with that. I suppose there are people out there for whom life turns out (more or less) as they had hoped/expected, and maybe that's the proverbial "carrot" that has somehow

Yes, there were certainly aspects of life that were easier, in childhood, and perhaps our teenage years. Life now is very "complicated," as you suggest... and perhaps we fall into the trap of

Yes, I would agree that those memories at least serve to help us stay positive in the now, regardless of whether the memories are accurate, or not.

I have always felt that cheating is really an expression of selfishness," more than anything else. You have to have a mindset where your own fun is always more important than other people's feelings.

I've got a few that are purely for the metal, but I like the historical and numismatic aspects; finding the details ant mint marks that make a particular item unique and more valuable.

Growing stuff is actually fun and rewarding, when you can eat it, at the end. And the Hive Gardening community is cool and has lots of good tips. I'm with you, tomatoes are abominations of another order.

Sometimes I do wish I had a better capacity to finish what I started. But I get a little ways into things, and then I spot something else I'd like to get involved with so I start that, and from that I

Historically, I have tended to not give up on projects... I have just postponed them more or less indefinitely!