It's easy to forget how lucky we are sometimes...and when I say "we" I really mean "me" I suppose because you're you and I'm me. I don't mean I am ungrateful, far from it; I have an amazing life, a sexy partner who I care about and who cares in return, all of what I need and much of what I want, a home, vehicles, health (mainly) and I live in a safe and prosperous country. I'd say that's a lot to be grateful for and I am truly grateful for all of it...and the hard work I've put in to bring it into being of course. I have a gratitude-ethos, no doubt.

Nature doesn't need people - people need nature; nature would survive the extinction of the human being and go on just fine, but human culture, human beings, cannot survive without nature.- Harrison Ford -Nature and the planet we live on is something I care about; everyone should I guess. The problem is that we tend to overuse it, ask more from it than it can possibly give, and simply don't give enough back in large enough quantities to help sustain a healthy and viable balance between our needs as humans and its needs as a planet. Having said that, it'll keep doing what it does, evolving and changing, and will one day simply cease to exist at all; that's just how it is. I think human beings will be long gone by then, like the dinosaurs are gone, destroyed by nature itself and after-effects of a Mt Everest-sized asteroid that struck the Earth some 66 million years ago.

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.Fred Astaire -Fred Astaire -I'm here to wrap up the #weekend-engagement writing concept as featured in my WEEKEND EXPERIENCES community. The topics are released each Friday, new ones in five days y'all, and content creators have all weekend to post in response to those topics I set.

Back a while I did a road trip to a place called the Northern Rivers in New South Wales, Australia and stayed in a town called Ballina for a week or so before moving on. I've shared photos from that trip before but because some of them were totally shit soa lot of them have sat around unused for a long time.

I like rewarding people who apply effort and I was thinking about how I could do that on the Hive blockchain. Hmm, what to do...thinking...thinking...thinking...I know! I'll ask people to do a post and if it meets my requirements I'll consider giving the author a fuck load of Ecency points.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.- Albert Einstein -It's week two hundred and twenty two (222) this week so I thought I'd base the topics around the number two because it's my concept and that's what I want to do - if you don't like it that's ok. I hope you've got something planned for the weekend that excites you and if you haven't you probably should because this weekend will be one more weekend closer to you being dead and time shouldn't be wasted. Right?