Congratulations everyone and thank you for all of your contributions!

The glasses fit you well! You're lucky that you didn't have to wear them until almost the half-century mark. I tell you, this market is the strangest I've ever seen in my nine years in crypto. My best

One of my favorite musical artists!

You list so many great ones! I was nodding my head in agreement as I was reading that entire list. One especially caught my attention...I love to be quiet. I've always enjoyed peaceful solitude too. Thanks

Thank you!

To me New York is more like this immense concentration of villages than it is a metropolis because each neighborhood has such a unique vibe and identity. I can remember when I was staying there for weeks

Thank you @jlufer! I'm glad you're enjoying the poetry. I've been churning them out since we moved into our new house. It makes a difference to have a quiet room to write in. I hope you're having a wonderful

Yes, I think the entire financial district (Wall Street) is built on trash...there's a metaphor in there somewhere. Lol. Central Park used to be a self-sufficient minority community I think. It was on

True. It's not about the number of years we've lived but more about our mindset and wether or not we learn our lessons. This is really what I was aiming for with how I structured this ending, that it would

Great, I'll check it out. Thanks.

I'm sorry the community is devolving. This is so often the case with these kinds of alternative communities. Do you have any ideas for other places to go?

It would be very interesting to go back with the knowledge acquired from almost an entire lifetime wouldn't it?

Yes! I posted this story years ago but have reworked it to improve dialogue and readability. DMT is producing some excellent results for people suffering from PTSD in the real world. The research is pretty

That's true, it's a maze of the utmost complexity. There are still good people working in the medical field but they're captured in highly corrupt system. Thank you!

It certainly is. I guess I wasn’t 100% accurate, they aren’t flat out refusing but just not responding. I’ve contacted them on three separate occasions over almost three months about our address change

Thanks Jay, that's awesome! The bones of this story are exactly the same as before. I just brushed up the dialogue and flow of it based on what I've learned in the past few years.

Yep, this is the end. Timmy does know about his adult self and, through DMT, the alien encounter and/or the magic in the woods, his soul somehow found a way to travel back to his childhood and have a

Lol!

SO glad to hear that! It's been so much fun revisiting this story.

Over the last year my wife and I have had lots of exposure to the US healthcare system. I can honestly say that it seems to be set up for one purpose...to extract the maximum amount of money it can from