"I would rather appreciate what I cannot have, than have what I am not able to appreciate". Orison Swett Marden Life since I was a child has led me to appreciate even the smallest things, simply because I didn't have them and they were hard to acquire or because I always valued people and time with them and still do today. I think this is one of the issues that I had to reflect on the most to find those things that I have taken for granted, either in the past or today. I asked myself for a long time: what things have I not appreciated to the fullest and should have done or now do, having learned

After work today I got back home and finished organising the lego into colour co odinated bags. It was a task and a half, but I got it done. The next step of the journey was to start building some of the sets I have identified in this random assortment. I had all of these odd coloured ones together, blue, white, and a few other colours divided into bags, but upon finding out what this one was I put all of those separate bags out together

Image credit: KarinaYana by @cryptoshots. nft I liked the Ladies of Hive question for this week, and wanted to take a moment to answer it. The question is: If you had the opportunity to offer guidance and wisdom to your younger self, what insights or recommendations would you share? I'm going to stick to things that you don't generally find in advice columns or online articles, because why cover the same stuff everyone else does?

I haven't written poetry for an awful long time. Perhaps I should. I feel like I should, but maybe the well is dry for now. That's okay

The idea of robots having skin has been around for ages but is, of course, only seen in movies. These days, however, we see it as a real thing. Now these robots may even be given living skin, but there's a slight issue and yet a possible solution to it. Humanoid robots—robots with the human form factor—have advanced over the years, especially in the last few months

Its time to gather all the lucky little things in my life and say a prayer to the universe cause there sure is a lot to worry about but there is just as much to be excited about. Whether you have a particular faith or not, I find this practice helps a lot to keep the fire burning when I get tired or when things get rough. Let me try to recall all the things that have me excited recently 1 We ran into a friend from out of the country BY CHANCE a day after talking about him for the first time in year! Talk about synchronicity

Sometimes when we get hazy days in spring it gives a strange feeling to the day. Not necessarily a bad feeling, but it can make us feel a little bit more isolated and push our thoughts in certain directions. Such was the case for Kitō on a spring long ago. He wrote: 夕霧おもへばへだつ昔かな yūgasumi omoeba hedatsu mukashi kana this evening haze

We all pray to live long and we also pray for our parents to live long so that they can enjoy the fruit of their labour but most people are not mentally or emotionally prepared to see their parents age and by most people, I mean yours truly. Most of us can’t bear to look at our aging parents without feeling sorry for them and most of us can’t come to terms with the fact that our parents are aging every day and one day we will have to bid them goodbye. After two years of being apart from my father and siblings, I finally saw my family again as we all had a little reunion where everyone came back home and it was crystal clear that my father was growing old. He wasn’t the only one aging as my Aunties, Uncles, neighbors, and every elderly person I knew was growing old and the signs were visible