leaving today till early Wednesday. short trip.

thanks tng.

Every post on this is fascinating -- but I don't have a chance to comment. I'm packing for a motor trip to Baltimore. Who knows, I might run across blackbootz but I think he's in Europe. I'm not thrilled about having to leave home for this trip, but I'm going because: loyalty (or something). Meanwhile, at least it's 29 degrees there. It's 10-15 degrees colder here and enough already. It's June.

Condolences to you for the loss of your granny. Feel free to do some initial existential life/death journalling here on hubski and please give me a shout out if you do @-@. The loss of close family members is difficult.

Happy to see people revisiting old posts!!

For god's sake, 21 shares, 41 responses, and a few badges.

Hell yeah, This is what hubski's like.

I'll post a new writing prompt ... one must be lurking.

About six months later I made an account, 2000 days ago.

We live in a universe of infinite awe and wonder, all of it accessible if you only take a look around you. Push back against the dark. Somewhere out there something amazing is waiting to be discovered.

One of my pet ideas on why so many kids are depressed is that there are no grand challenges and hardships to plough through anymore.

Thanks so much for writing these thoughts. We live in a universe of infinite awe and wonder.

What do you think it is? Do you have some ideas?

It sounds serious and it doesn't sound like it's caused by anxiety.

Your note reminds me a little of what Richard Feynman, Noble-winning physicist, said about art:

I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It’s difficult to describe because it’s an emotion. It’s analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the universe: there’s a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run ‘behind the scenes’ by the same organization, the same physical laws. It’s an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It’s a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had that emotion. I could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe.

There's something inspiring and charmingly readable about subheadings.

What's it like to arrested by the IDF in the Hebron Hills? Here's an interview with my now released bf about his arrest.

kleinbl00 Did you have a chance to listen to some of it ? I noticed you liked it on my fb. Thanks for that! I rarely post anything, but this seemed informative.

Thanks Steve.

When he was demonstrating against pipelines in British Columbia, I wasn't so worried. He might have got arrested, but by Canadians who are mostly civilized. But the Israeli Defense Force is known for doing whatever they like (at least to Palestinians) and not always being held responsible. As it was, his arm got pulled and twisted pretty bad, but he's okay. From the videos on the links, I can see the IDF being pretty forceful.

Anyway, I knew what I signed up for.

By the way -- those who are following the count on this (and think I'm disingenuous), I tried today to make a donation, but the "donate to hubski" bar didn't accept my donation. mk is still working on this and steve and I are still good for it. When the time comes, perhaps someone with time can see what the final count of check-ins is.