Warning: This curation list may cause an insatiable desire to join TheUnmentionables and improve your writing - reader beware.

The best of TheUnmentionables content (22/9/17) - curated with love.

(Huge thanks to @enchantedspirit for becoming our group curator - be sure to give her a follow and some love!)

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The world -- especially today's world -- can really get you down. It's easy to start wondering if humanity is doomed, if anything will make a difference, if it's even possible at this stage to turn the world around. But then a piece like this comes along to remind you that nothing ever changes if people just give up. You start where you are. You do what you can. You work with what you have. And the next day you get up and do it again.

At some surprising moment, such dogged fidelity will change the world. This is an absolutely guaranteed physical and metaphysical certainty. With every contribution you make, the tolerant gesture, the encouraging smile, the kind word, the token of support, you push the world closer to the next tipping point where transition is inevitable. You may be only one person, but you are one of millions -- like-minded thinkers and do-ers determined to make it so. Your combined momentum is unstoppable.

I believe this devoutly. So, apparently, does @hopehuggs .

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What one thing can any person do
to make a positive impact on humanity?
ecoTrain question of the week
@hopehuggs

This is a great companion piece to our featured article yesterday from @ethandsmith, Polishing Your Posts: Tips for Creating High-Quality, Readable, and Engaging Articles for Your Blog.

Here you'll learn from @karencarrens how to put gifs in your blog post, and reduce them down so they don't take forever to load. This saves time. It saves bandwith. It gets your reader into your content ASAP. Gifs add charm and interest to your text -- and now you don't have to worry. Make them one of your tools-of-engagement ... today!

This how-to-tutorial is the latest in @karencarrens Bookmarkable Series. Click in and follow the trail. Even veterans can learn something about how to make their blogs better.

Bookmarkable Series:
Don't lose your audience!
Learn how you can optimize your GIF files so
your blog post loads faster for your viewers.
@karencarrens

And here's another on how to be a better, wiser blogger. You can even boost your profits. Engage meaningfully with the people who stop off and leave great remarks in your comments section. It's a fine way to humanize yourself, to help your readers feel valued ... and keep them coming back for more.

(So ... clearly today's theme is Better Blogging!)

How to Utilize the Comments Section for Profit and Wisdom
@battleaxe

Well, the title pretty much speaks for itself. And it's more than an article. It's a mini-tutorial. Wouldn't it be wonderful to think you'd never have to wade through a day of the icky brown stuff again? Open the page and start reading. Maybe she's on to something!

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Spotlight Writing Contest 2:
How to Never Have a Shit Day Again
@hopehuggs

Dear @fatpandadesign -- a mighty citizen of the crypto world, shares his latest surprising find (with details and recommendations! Sssshhh!)

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The Last Crypto Wallet You'll Ever Use
Exodus:EDEN - Easy, Secure, Sexy As Hell!
@fatpandadesign

If talk of crypto-currency and the blockchain makes you go cross-eyed, this piece by a guy who really knows his stuff (and has something to say) could help you straighten out again. I won't try to put words in his mouth. He can do that for himself. Here you go. Have a look.

Ride the Revolutionary Rocket with Cryptotechnology
... Entirely Evolutionary
@selfishinvesting

@apanamamama writes a health-based post for her blog every Wednesday. This week she did a how-to piece on making your own roasted chickpeas snack. Now I've eaten my share of chips, I promise you. But as I get older, I'm more interested in snacks whose ingredients aren't unpronounceable-- ones I can season to my taste -- ones that are healthier than usual -- and ones whose components I can vouch for because I put them there.

For all these reasons, this one gets my vote. We may be trying them out ourselves this week-end.

Favorite Snack Roasted Chick Peas
Wellness Wednesday by A Panama Mama
@apanamamama

I'm not usually much of one for poetry, but this one is powerful. See for yourself.

The Voice In My Head
@lordmok

A side-step into fantasy ... in case all this serious stuff has got you down.

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Rhapsodist Writing Contest 6 - The Key
@perennial

Our pictoral essay for today -- on a flower bud.

Photography with Me
(Theme - Bud)
@arunava

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Curation With Style No. 3
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The author of this list of curated posts by members of The Unmentionables is @enchantedspirit whose mostly metaphysical writing can be found on her own blog. The opinions here are strictly hers ... but they're also very true!

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