The Daily Whistle Stops, Issue #118. (4/28/18)
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A Curation Group, Revisited
@slobberchops
and change the world!!!
@crazybgadventure
Proclamation from @sultnpapper
Today is now "National Hemi Day"
@sultnpapper
Decentralized Application Platform [#2]
@daan
The Salton Sea Then and Now
@bigtom13
Issue 36
@bozz
Help yourself FIRST
@zen-art
@apanamamama
(Day 2)
@eonwarped
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Thanks for featuring one of my posts! I see you've also included some other awesome posts, really enjoyed reading the one of @crazybgadventure
Thank you so much @daan that is very kind of you to mention.
@crazybgadventures has come alive in so many amazing ways in the past couple of months. It's like he got whacked into becoming the person he was always intended to be. Quite an inspiring thing to watch. I am terribly proud and inspired by him and his example.
Thank you once again for the mention very much appreciated.
You know you're welcome, of course. It's not like you don't deserve it!
Thank you for including my post about climbing the volcano...even if I wasn't the one who climbed it. Ha! :)
I'm with you @apanamamama mamamamama. Somebody else wants to go climb a volcano, hand-over-hand in some places. Fine. Go, get 'em, Tiger. Bring me pictures. I'll sit here in the shade and have a lemonade. Or maybe a pina colada. And a nap.
That would have been delightful. I cleaned part of a room that has been a disaster recently (while keeping an eye on 7-12 kids), making lunch... You know, fun stuff like that. ;)
Thank you. Thank you. I hardly know what to say being in a group with all these people. It's an honor.
We've got some pretty good folks, all right. Great ideas. Good writing. Lots of variety. I get lost sometimes reading the posts -- the ones I'm trying to organize into TDWS. Sometimes, @catweasel does, too. He does the voting. Took him over an hour the other day to get through I think it was seven votes. We're glad you're part of the assembled throng. Cw was also saying the other day you deserve a lot more rewards than you're getting. We want to help fix that.
That one you did on the ghost town in Nevada a while back was one of the most haunting visual essays I've seen ... maybe ever. You could just feel the disappointment, despair and desolation. What sad, sad energy it much have felt like to actually be there.