It takes a lot of double checking and backtracking to confirm that something actually is what it claims to be... and it's frustratingly time consuming.

Perhaps that is what I find to be the single most frustrating part of "the system;" this sensation what if you are thinking, you're outnumbered and irrelevant. Which invariably leads me down

I'm glad you enjoyed the photos... all from my own time in nature...

These are such beautiful and "quiet" images; remind me a lot of the woods near where I grew up in Denmark.

It's just not a very friendly or fun platform anymore... which is a shame, because it did used to be cool!

It used to be my go-to place for a lot of different things you could find nowhere else, especially in the area of collectibles.

That's interesting... I hope they do that here in the States, as well. It's ironic that there would not be an eBay, we're it not for the small private sellers who built it!

There was a time when I had hope that someone would build a decentralized peer-to-peer marketplace here on Hive... but sadly it seems that people here are more interested in "playing with crypto"

It went away after a couple of hours... or maybe I just tuned it out! It came back during the day today for about 30 minutes, and stopped. I think it's a septic pump alarm on a house that's currently not

Sometimes it almost feels like there's s contest to see WHO CAN SHOUT THE LOUDEST and be the most obnoxious and disagreeable while generally ignoring reality. I'd rather be here...

But of course! I will Master Jacob, I will! Shades of junior high: I can't be friends with you because you're friends with Bob, and Bob is friends with Sally whose brother is my mortal enemy!"

Indeed! Interestingly enough, my wife remarked — many years ago — that Ferdinand was the embodiment of Christ Consciousness. Of course, she also doesn't care about officially "canned" prescriptions

Fist bump back to you! For clarification, the 7-foot thing was just used as a metaphor by my friend... although I am 6'4", but I fit outside the norm in so many other ways, most of them psychological

Thoughtful comment, thanks! As a piece of background, I am a Danish national, but while I was born there I didn't always live there. Of my first 20 years, about 12 were spent in Denmark, five in the south

Sometimes it's difficult to find that balance, to be sure. I discovered — at least for me — that when idling and feeling like I "had to" get up and do something, it was not ME speaking, it was

Thanks Joan! In the end, all we really can do is our version of our best, but the difficult thing — for most people, at least — is perhaos making peace with the notion that sometimes our best simply won't

It started by going to outdoor arts and crafts fairs in the area and discovering that that there were quite a few jewelers and artists who used "found objects" in their work. Turned out the more

Sea glass, old pottery, driftwood, oyster shells, hag stones and pretty much anything interesting I would come across. It was fun while it lasted.

I guess it's what happens when you don't really relate to mainstream likes and preferences.

Cool beans!