I think I'm more annoyed about it because it feels like manipulation and exploitation, than I'm annoyed by the actual cost. I'd likely be willing to pay for hosting services if the fees were out in the

I can't really afford such things, either, which is why I have none left and I refuse to sign up for anything that's a "free trial" that will start charging me money later. If I can't clearly

It seems fairly consistent that as we age, we also years to simplify our surroundings and environment. Even though I was never one driven by an obsession for "filling" my life with everything,

Thanks for stopping by!

Yeah, I have multiple accounts. Like you, I have a "main" account (this one), which is used for most of my content. However, I also have a separate "alt" account for my artwork, because

Sometimes I think it's a true miracle that we can all communicate as well as we do. And, to be honest? I was still sort of hoping for pictures of 1950's pompadour-ish hair...

Indeed, that's often what is at the heart of the matter: People are unable or unwilling to step outside their own paradigm to entertain the possibility that someone else's paradigm is no more or less

Hi Denise! Yes, perception is pretty much all we have. And our perceptions tend to center on our beliefs. As author Arthur C. Clarke once observed: "We surmise, but we do not KNOW. That's why it's

We humans do seem to have taken the very process of living life and have turned it into something far excessive to what we actually need to just live a peaceful and contented life.

Yeah, we're kind of in the woods, too, although there is a fairly large community around us (about 800 homes). Yes, I am not fond of those whole-house generators... I walk outside and can hear the three

We're about five miles outside town; the lines run through heavily wooded areas and there's a lot of wind here because we're basically at the tip of a peninsula. The rest is pretty self-explanatory. Cooking

Ah, so you know the area well! The infrastructure in Andalucia was pretty "thin" towards the end of the Franco era (I was there 1972-80). I returned many years later; my parents lived as retired

Good one! And yes, I really relate to that!

You make a good point! I ended up at "psychological typologies" as a result of a growing dis-ease with my surrounding environment... so I delved deeper into understanding the "why's"

I have a feeling that much of the time the whole "finding yourself" is simply a label we put on the gradual realization that whatever "consensus norms and reality" of the moment might

It's interesting to see how different things cost in different places; thanks for sharing it like this. Here in the USA, in a local market, The tomatoes would be about the same; the cherries about $3,

The US is a particularly strange cesspool of mixed messages. And it's pretty toxic. The machinery in this country is driven by eternal marketing of the idea that we much eternally seek more of everything,

That sounds like a wise way to approach it. We can certainly learn from the past... but life happens NOW.

In retrospect, I went through many years of discovering that when it seems like something is "missing" from my life, the answer to finding it isn't very often "out there," it is inside

Thanks for your kind words! For the most part, I'd say the path to living a reasonably happy life is to be aware that the bad parts are there and exist, while directing our energy at whatever it is we