In his efforts to garner more page hits several posts have arisen recently making DK appear more friendly through "ask me anything posts" from various front pagers. It was stated these efforts were in part driven by reduced revenue. (We can discuss budgeting to fit one's crop cycle in another post). Part of the reason we faced such an exodus of late, besides the mob rules moderation, is an endless series of depressing, stressful, and upsetting news cycles. Those take a toll not only on the readers but the writers as well. For example, there are still police videos I just can't bear to post because of the level of horror therein is so shocking to me I just can not.
So what did Kos forget? Tell you next page.
Fun, enjoyment, pleasure, creativity, beauty...
Yes, we do not only live from moment to moment chasing down political, news, and social issues if we want to remain healthy people. We insert joy in the form of our individual and personal time outs away from reality. It could be a myriad of things. Cooking, bike riding, photography, opera, drawing, watching TV, reading...
The assignment:
For every ten posts you should include one, or more, posts on something whimsical. What you enjoy what makes you, you.
No matter how esoteric, if you have a hobby converting wire hangars into cute tchotchkes, tell us about it.
Use your skills to show us what you like, if you relax by going to gardens and smelling flowers, do a photo post showing the flowers you like most, or write out a description of how those flowers smell you you, or show videos of those sorts of flowers, or draw pictures of flowers, or write a song about the flowers, or...
It is up to you how you merge what makes you run and how you share it with us. The important part is that you do it.
9:08 AM PT: I'm having technical issues. So if I didn't rec you I want you to know I tried.