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Darmok N Jalad said:
When I was young, I never thought I wanted kids. Now I have three and couldn’t imagine life without them.
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I was adopted, and then they had some 'naturals', and they couldn't deal with it. I was 'the outsider', and it was weird. People that say 'adoption is the answer', do not understand the question, I feel. I joined a huge group to try to find my parents, and the stories that people told were heartbreaking. They weren't all bad by any means, but wow, so many were. And the stories people told about finding their real parents were heart breaking, and occasionally horrific.

But I'm here. People have to deal with it, or not. (Reading steve job' experience being adopted really resonated with me. I do find myself being 'a steve' at times. It's hard to make friends, etc) My adopted parents, I think, realized what they did to me. It felt even weirder then. *shrug* We all have stories... I said that 'I survived my childhood', and everyone at the table totally agreed. No one said it was supposed to be perfect, but so many totally mess it up. Being a parent IS hard work, and if it isn't, you might be doing it wrong. At least that's my opinion... Again: *shrug*
 
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Apple fanboy said:
We had one. Then we lost her. Life without her is tough.
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I worked with someone who had a child die. He was talking about it after a year or so. He said it's really hard to contextualize what happens. He had been divorced, and said that losing a child is far worse. He said he felt gutted. It gouged a hole in their lives, and it took a lot to stay together, and get through it. Wow... Thanks for getting through that and being here.
 
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Goblin State Park, Utah. October 2021

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PinkyMacGodess said:
I was adopted, and then they had some 'naturals', and they couldn't deal with it. I was 'the outsider', and it was weird. People that say 'adoption is the answer', do not understand the question, I feel. I joined a huge group to try to find my parents, and the stories that people told were heartbreaking. They weren't all bad by any means, but wow, so many were. And the stories people told about finding their real parents were heart breaking, and occasionally horrific.

But I'm here. People have to deal with it, or not. (Reading steve job' experience being adopted really resonated with me. I do find myself being 'a steve' at times. It's hard to make friends, etc) My adopted parents, I think, realized what they did to me. It felt even weirder then. *shrug* We all have stories... I said that 'I survived my childhood', and everyone at the table totally agreed. No one said it was supposed to be perfect, but so many totally mess it up. Being a parent IS hard work, and if it isn't, you might be doing it wrong. At least that's my opinion... Again: *shrug*
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It sounds like you have come through it a stronger person. If it helps, there aren’t any outsiders here. We are small outsiders out there but in here, we are insiders.
 
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kenoh said:
It sounds like you have come through it a stronger person. If it helps, there aren’t any outsiders here. We are small outsiders out there but in here, we are insiders.
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I think many kids grow up in spite of their parents. Mine did everything they could to ruin me. But they had their issues, and probably didn't see it that way. I had it hard, but I know people who had it worse. But this is getting way off the subject of this forum. Have a happy Wednesday!

Love the pictures.

I'm not expert, but after reading a few articles about 'undiscovered works of art', have never deleted a picture I've taken for the past 10 years or so. Some of those 'bad pictures' are really amazing signposts for those times in my life. Some make me laugh, and some are more somber.

Anyone else feel the same way? One article was the photographer justifying the expense of large camera memory chips. They had 'more storage than they could ever use', and took to buying multiple chips and not deleting anything off of them until they were uploaded. Some of the images were really striking, and I can see the urge to delete, but saving them was worth it.

One other reason for my No Delete pledge, was I drove up the eastern coast, and took several pictures of New York City from the west as I trekked by, and deleted many of them, which showed the WTC. Not that I'm overly weird about that time in recent history, I just wish I had saved them, just because I was there. I love NYC, and Manhattan, and should have saved them, and thought them 'to cluttered' when I was 'cleaning'...

Save all your shots, or cull? Hmm...
 
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BasilFawlty said:
Remake of "The Blob" only this time the monster is made out of liquid Mercury!
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Don't joke about mercury. Some numb skull stole a carboy of mercury at the college I went to, and was dropping ounces of it into toilets around campus. The campus fuzz freaked out and searched the entire campus until they found the carboy in a dorm stairwell. I, at the time tried to figure out why someone would do something that 'stupid'. The carboy weighed close to 40 pounds, and they had to have struggled a bt with it, and it's a huge contamination risk, and exposure to it isn't a great idea. I just couldn't understand the impulse to do that. I ended up finding some in a toilet in the sciences building, and used a pipette to draw it out. Just like the idiots that vandalized that work of art, the idiot that stole the mercury, the drive to do it just evades me... It made no sense, and was very reckless... Weird...

Mercury poisoning created the character 'the mad hater', and mercury was used in the hat industry.
 
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OldMacs4Me said:
The dramatic lighting on this wilting Thanksgiving flower caught my eye. At the time I did not realize that the macro zoom on the new Lumix was entirely digital, but it still did OK with only a few jpeg artifacts. Thankfully the ISO was a quite slow 160.

I had to use a loupe to see it, but the petals really are textured like that.
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I just pitched a dozen wilted yellow roses. They were actually really rather interesting looking. I should have taken some pictures. DOH!
 
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PinkyMacGodess said:
Don't joke about mercury. Some numb skull stole a carboy of mercury at the college I went to, and was dropping ounces of it into toilets around campus. The campus fuzz freaked out and searched the entire campus until they found the carboy in a dorm stairwell. I, at the time tried to figure out why someone would do something that 'stupid'. The carboy weighed close to 40 pounds, and they had to have struggled a bt with it, and it's a huge contamination risk, and exposure to it isn't a great idea. I just couldn't understand the impulse to do that. I ended up finding some in a toilet in the sciences building, and used a pipette to draw it out. Just like the idiots that vandalized that work of art, the idiot that stole the mercury, the drive to do it just evades me... It made no sense, and was very reckless... Weird...

Mercury poisoning created the character 'the mad hater', and mercury was used in the hat industry.
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Did they ever catch the idiot?
 
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