I enjoy and value self-reliance and actively seek it as it brings a degree of confidence that I'll be able to take care of things when I need to; but what things? Should I be lost in the wilderness I'd be more likely to survive as I have built skills and understandings around what will be required in that situation rather than being clueless and hoping someone comes along to save me. That's just a basic example of course and there's many other aspects in which I work towards being self-reliant and it makes me feel more present in my own life, helpful to myself and others, and it gives me a sense of satisfaction...but that doesn't mean I turn help away - far from it.

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself..- D. H. Lawrence -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.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.- Otto von Bismarck (Former Chancellor of Germany) -Now and then I share a book I'm reading; I could do a post on a new book every week and a half if I wanted to because I read a lot of books but I bore you enough with my posts without adding to it. Anyway, my buddy @dahpilot asked me yesterday what I was reading and because I know he's actually interested I decided to share the book I started a couple days ago.

They're not always good, most people can testify to that; that's not their fault though, as circumstances outside their control dictate such things...but on this occasion good would be an understatement...with, fucken glorious, being a more apt description.

I've not got much planned this weekend preferring to see what comes along and go with the flow of it; I'll have coffee, take a nap in my hammock, listen to music, read my book and probably a couple other things that may eventuate, but there's no fixed plans.

As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task.- Diogenes -What's fucken up rockstars? Give me a holler in the comments and let me know what you're up to this weekend and if you want to get involved with the topics concept see below.