OCD's support is expanding!

Hello everyone! This is the 986th compilation post of OCD's latest curation efforts. It has been known that OCD has been supporting leading niche communities under its Community Incubation Program. However, there are still a lot of other niche communities not supported by OCD. This curation initiative will help in supporting those communities.

This newest curation effort aims to encourage authors to post in appropriate communities even if those communities are not under the incubation program. This will also encourage users to explore more into the different communities in Hive.

OCD curators and community leaders will find posts from other niche communities and recommend them for an upvote. Unlike those communities in the incubation program where curation is focused, this curation initiative is spread out. This will help find undervalued posts from smaller communities that deserve support.

This will highlight both the author and the community where the post is located. This way, smaller niche communities can focus on growing their subscribers and increasing the engagements within their respective communities. A small boost goes a long way.

Speaking of boost, here are the curated posts for this batch:

If you suddenly feel like something sweet and you have nothing at home, here I bring you a simple and delicious recipe for a mango pudding with chia, it is so delicious to prepare that you can prepare it at any time; in addition, its ingredients are easily available in the market.

Hello Hive family, in today's post, I will give a recipe for Black cabbage soup, a traditional dish of Ordu, my hometown, as we call it, borscht. The word beetroot is more commonly used there than black cabbage. When you go to other provinces of the Black Sea, you will hear more black cabbage than beetroot. Let's say this is the difference of my hometown :)

if I were to agree with the perspective of the fifties (that we can't seem to move on from already) that a woman my age should want to (and be) married well (or have a partner at the very least), have a home, wear respectable clothing in order to be respectable (which wouldn't include holes, of course), have an established and profitable social circle (because, let's face it, too often a social circle is entirely based on this) and have savings to fall back on in an emergency and for retirement both.

I think it can be a tricky question for most people to answer, of course off the bat most would say well home is home, after all you would know best where home is for you, wont you?

Manginhas - in our Visayan language, it is our term for "gathering sea shells" during low tides, either in the morning or in the afternoon. It's when the stones and corals are exposed and it's the time when we can get some sea shells, clams, and other sea foods freshly off the seawater. We just need to have keen eyes in searching for them because they are usually camouflaged with stones.

December months always seem to be filled with tragedy for our family. This year was no exception to that. Though for a change, it was not with an unhappy ending. My mother spent December in the hospital, state-owned hospital. (If you know, then you know.) But she is thankfully now at home.

The breeze blows through the sunflowers and, in the dance of the stems and yellow flowers, I hear the laughter we once shared while playing baseball. We didn't have a bat or a ball, but we improvised with a couple of soda caps and a sweeping broom. The afternoons passed without our noticing and when night fell we would sit on the dry land that is now a garden. We were children so happy that neither the scrapes on our knees nor the scolding of our mother could take away our smile. How long has it been since then? I don't know, my memory can only reflect your round face and your ruby hair. I breathe nostalgic for the incomplete lineage and I wonder: "How was it that you vanished so soon?"

Now let me continue what I did on Sunday, I left my friends on the 8th of January 2023 and made my way from Café Warung to Forum Almada by bus.

Actually since the end of November my Skincare products have been running out, but imagine that they lasted me almost a year, I think I was asking for too much and among those products was my micellar water and cleansing gel nothing more and nothing less than the most important when it comes to make-up removal.

It has been raining since Monday due to Low Pressure Area. It's cold, it's dark and I am feeling sluggish. I was thinking of ways to energize and warm myself. How about a bowl of chocolate porridge or champorado? That would be perfect for the cold, rainy day.

This concludes this batch's curation report. We would like to congratulate those who are featured and supported. Keep up the good work and continue to explore Hive Communities.