The fall colors have been less than spectacular, so far... it has been warm with no sudden cold snaps. Still, the Japanese maples seldom let us down. I don't envy you living in snow country!

Thanks! It was just a particularly beautiful moment, with the red leaves, rain and then sudden sunshine.

Thank you...

Sorry to hear about your hubby's woes... that has to be awful! This thing just seems to drag on, and on, and ON... and people just end up feeling frustrated and helpless. I hope you two get some answers,

Thanks for the support @brumest, I appreciate it!

I do believe that striving to be present and mindful is often the best thing we can do... for ourselves, and for others. All in all, I am pretty content with the life I have. I suppose I am less content

Sometimes all you can do is just don't add more to the mess. That pretty much sums up my approach to life, right there. As a wise person once said to me: "I can't change the world, but maybe I can

The thing about eBay is that it was a super cool idea at one time. A true peer-to=peer marketplace that was like a cross between an online garage sale and a collectibles expo marketplace. Sadly, most of

Thanks for the suggestion re: LibreOffice. For the moment, she has managed to get access keys from someone at Microsoft, but I sent her the information, anyway. I like that there's an online version, as

It would be nice if someone were to develop and implement a peer-to-peer marketplace as part of the Hive ecosystem so we could all trade goods and services with each other without ever having to "exit

The thing about eBay is that they have succeeded in creating themselves as a "pseudo-monopoly" in their particular business space. So they can get away with it because people don't really have

Well, I grew up in Denmark which is a social democracy, and there are definite rules and limitations on what is permissible in business to get sales. Some of the practices we see here in the US go way

Thanks for the support @steemflow, I appreciate it!

That thing about your mom cracks me up... reminds me of years back when some of the "cool kids" who were early adopters started leaving MySpace because "Eeeew, my mom's on MySpace!"

I think it will only be a matter of time before we see it... whether they will have any real value remains to be seen...

Mindfulness matters! The YouTube story is funny... and a poignant reminder that people derive authentic benefit from things in a myriad different ways.

Thank you for supporting my work; I appreciate it!

Thanks for the support; I appreciate it!

It's ironic that when people are actually being direct, others try to "read between the lines" when there are actually no hidden messages between those lines! All in all, human communication

I remember having a conversation with someone 3-4 years back about "crypto being made illegal." I submitted that it will never happen; instead crypto will be usurped by traditional business.