Thanks for the encouragement!

Indeed. I need to do better with the Hive post thumbnails.

Thank you Nancy! I have SO many poems to choose from since I published Ephemera. It’s going to be challenging to pick the right ones for the book. AI was struggling with adding my face to the image. I

To have access to Grok 3 you have to pay the basic annual fee on X for a “verified account” but the $50 is worth it for the access to Grok alone. It’s growing more capable every day and was very impressive

Thank you! I encourage you to publish your poems if you’d like to. It’s a great journey to publish, it allows you to see your work in a whole different way. Cheers my friend!

Thank you my friend! I was shocked by how close the Grok image was to my original idea. The picture I shared was only the third attempt. The book designer is already hard at work. 😊 I feel so much better

I guess I hadn't noticed it much before the pandemic, for my inner circle anyway. We're all mostly in our fifties so we're probably a bit older than most. Same here, most of the friends who've drifted

I appreciate it!

Thank you Christy!

I am definitely lonesome. I've probably lost close to 80% of my friends since the pandemic years. I guess it's not so much a loss a it is a drifting. The fissure those few of years of isolation created

Thank you! That suggestion you made a few weeks ago has stayed lodged in my brain since then and the concept just all kind of came together. It feels timely. Good point about the AI. There's still a need

Thank you @irvinc! From your description, the image conveyed exactly what I had hoped it would. It has sort of a dual-meaning—how each of us can free ourselves from the pitfalls of extremism and how I'm

Exactly, ROTC. They enter active duty as mid-ranking officers.

I just tried Crumbl a few months ago for the first time and really enjoyed it. They are sweet though! I think they got their start on Shark Tank didn't they?

Very true!

Me too. Except for a few cases I much preferred to work with and train people who had worked their way up. Most employees had degrees but management services employees were all from very elite colleges.

You can say that again. College can, in no way, prepare you for the level of corporate f*ckery experienced in the real world. ; )

Thanks wonderful Lizelle! I'm so happy to hear that. I always dreaded when one of them were assigned to our department. A few ended up making some good contributions but a majority of them used up vital

I was working the job I referenced above during the peak years of college degree-mania. Lol From what I hear from others still in the trenches corporations are beginning to soften a bit and value real-world

The power of propaganda is extremely powerful. Half the country has turned against what should be one the nation's greatest sources of pride. It's only a matter of time before people get hurt. Some of