This is going to take a while, ...
I didn't know my father well, last saw him in 1968 and didn't reconnect until 2013. He passed away 2018, but I couldn't spend a lot of time with him due to circumstances involving others. That keeps our history nice and short, I only ever got one compliment from him, but for me a meaningful one. According to many, I most resemble him, even if absent for most of my life.

The academic disciplines are too rigid to be useful for anything other than their own beliefs, they don't like to be questioned.

Thanks for the resteem, it exposes my post to your followers, and you, and I mean you, also get a curation reward for resteeming someone else's post. Most resteem high dollar posts for that reason, bigger payout, making your resteem of my low dollar post that much more meaningful. My selfie post was more directed at you than anything else, one of the struggles was the quote as I wasn't sure if you would dislike the attention it could bring, but without "the mention" I could get flagged for plplplplaa, youknowwhat, that!

Since Sina is a second language speaker, I try to keep it simple. No need to complicate things while he gets better at it through practice.

I haven't played chess since 1978, lost my teacher and never cared to play with someone else, the way it goes I suppose. He passed away one Friday evening and the rejection I got after that hit home hard. If you figured out I was 15 and alone, you're right on track.

The section on love I will read again as it covers a lot. J. Krishnamurti had his Star Camp in Ommen, where I lived many years after he had left. Just a funny coincidence my younger half brother is really into J.K. and when I showed him where I had spent 2 years, he showed me the books depicting some of the buildings still there when I went to school there.

I'm puzzled by Dec. 17th 1997, should that date have a special meaning to me? I was in MN at that time. Another question I had was "at 56", how did you know my exact age?

I once knew a Pakistani hand reader and he dug up some amazing stuff from the past, Tariq was sometimes brutal with those that challenged his abilities. He later stated something to the notion that maybe he should have left them in their disbelief.

Ok, that filled an evening, but I'm at rest and comfortable with the way things are, so I hope you get some sleep.