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Aloha! Welcome to BYC. It was fun reading through your thread -I see you have made friends already ;) as it should be- Love your new hobbies. Wish it was under better circumstances for you but actually it is probably a miracle you survived and came out of it so well... you are making lemonade (sweetened with honey!) out of that big fat lemon you got handed. True grace :D and very impressive.
Love your little fuzzy/feathered family and look forward to seeing your perspectives around the ever evolving site. I love the photos and post many myself when I have something I think worthy, but will be sure to do thumbnails more often. Till then- aloooha!
 
:welcome :frow Glad you joined us. I'm one of the people that @drumstick diva
is talking about. I love taking pictures and posting them. Sometimes it's easier to visualize with pictures (at least for me). I can relate to your wife. For many years I worked the graveyard shift. I retired 10 years ago. Good luck with you flock and have fun...
 
TropicalBabies said:
Aloha! Welcome to BYC. It was fun reading through your thread -I see you have made friends already ;) as it should be- Love your new hobbies. Wish it was under better circumstances for you but actually it is probably a miracle you survived and came out of it so well... you are making lemonade (sweetened with honey!) out of that big fat lemon you got handed. True grace :D and very impressive.
Love your little fuzzy/feathered family and look forward to seeing your perspectives around the ever evolving site. I love the photos and post many myself when I have something I think worthy, but will be sure to do thumbnails more often. Till then- aloooha!
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Aloha TropicalBabies, Ha, I am making something. Not so sure my wife would call it lemonade though. Honestly it was a miracle and then some for sure.

I have always loved photos especially since I use to do amature photography. Since the blindness I have not picked up either of my cameras. They just sit in the bag now with all the lenses. I have always been an "Eye candy" kind of guy but a photo to me is so much more. Reason being is, it is not just a picture of what that person is seeing but, it is the one true time you can see through another persons eyes and I do not mean just what they are looking at at that particular time. It is how they see the world, what they like, what they don't like etc. It is an extension of the photographer. A person's perception is their reality and everyone perceives things differently. When I see I photo I get to see that person's reality and to my knowledge a photograph is the only thing that can do that so well. Heck, even with words we can not describe our own reality to one another but with a photo you can. So yeah if YOU like a photo you have taken then it is worthy.

Sorry, the photographer in me came out lol. Just my $0.02
 
drumstick diva said:
Ewok you are an incredible human being, I hope the future brings you rewards you never imagined coming.:hugs
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lol Thank You drumstick diva but I have to be totally honest. I was not like this until after my stroke. I use to be the guy that thought the world owed him something. I was a very closed minded kind of person, I took a great deal of things for granted that mattered, I use to think only my opinion counted etc. As my wife would say "A real Asshole" lol So I do see my stroke as a blessing in more ways than not. I do wish I could gain back what all I could do and keep the changes I have now but it does not work that way and that is ok. I would rather have the changes in myself. Things are a great deal more hard for me when it comes to doing things but life in general is so much better for me. It was an eye opener so to speak.
 
cmom said:
:welcome :frow Glad you joined us. I'm one of the people that @drumstick diva
is talking about. I love taking pictures and posting them. Sometimes it's easier to visualize with pictures (at least for me). I can relate to your wife. For many years I worked the graveyard shift. I retired 10 years ago. Good luck with you flock and have fun...
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I know what you mean all to well! The thing I like about seeing others photos is it gives me some insight on that person.

I had over 14 years on night shift then once I got into the medical field it went to day shift and night shift for emergency surgeries. For the longest time I was at times pulling some 24 hour shifts. It was not fun having to sleep at the hospital in an empty room or in the floor of the surgeons office but that was what was required to do what I did. lol
 
drumstick diva said:
I do know the overuse of photos has been gumming up the works. Some clips of photos do 3-4 repeats ,times being put up on several threads. I have seen so many of the same photos so often, I wish I could just turn them off!

I almost never post any photos. I don't know how to do it myself, and rarely get son to help me (lives many states away).

It would be nice if photos would be posted once(and duplicates photos deleted) and on other postings just offer a link to them.
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LOL, Well I can say this, I will only post a photo once. Life is to short for me to be going from forum topic to forum topic posting the same picture.

With that said granted 99.9% of the time I always post it in the wrong place.
Example, Forum Topic: " Post photos of your sons or daughters wedding here"
Me: "Hey look at this photo of where I cut my finger off on the table saw"

The story of my life!:he
 
ewok126 said:
lol Thank You drumstick diva but I have to be totally honest. I was not like this until after my stroke. I use to be the guy that thought the world owed him something. I was a very closed minded kind of person, I took a great deal of things for granted that mattered, I use to think only my opinion counted etc. As my wife would say "A real Asshole" lol So I do see my stroke as a blessing in more ways than not. I do wish I could gain back what all I could do and keep the changes I have now but it does not work that way and that is ok. I would rather have the changes in myself. Things are a great deal more hard for me when it comes to doing things but life in general is so much better for me. It was an eye opener so to speak.
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Wow. That is amazing. Not too many people can drum up that kind of honesty. I'm sure you have had time to think, scream, yell and ponder. I know a few people who did not change their snarky ways after big life scares. Unfortunate really. Don't know what i would do but I do hope it would be a change for the better on the inside too. Stay well friend.
 
TropicalBabies said:
Wow. That is amazing. Not too many people can drum up that kind of honesty. I'm sure you have had time to think, scream, yell and ponder. I know a few people who did not change their snarky ways after big life scares. Unfortunate really. Don't know what i would do but I do hope it would be a change for the better on the inside too. Stay well friend.
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Hi TropicalBabies, I have met many that are exactly as you say and yes it is very unfortunate and sad really because I feel like I know what they are missing out on. For me it goes so much more deeper than just behavior and attitude. It was as if the emotional weight of the world was lifted off of my shoulders. I never realised just how one simple emotion can bring a person down every minute of every day. For myself Ego and anger was huge ones. I just wish that I could share the freedom that I had gained with people like that. The thing is now, my empathy kicks in for those people which I think is a good thing but it is also a real downer for me. I tend to wear my heart on my sleeve but, it gives me understanding on why a person might be that way. Yes, I have had more than enough time to think, scream, and ponder but I use that now. I look forward to when I get the time to do just that. I use it to my advantage so to speak. Before, I did not look forward to those times at all. Now, it is the best part of my day. I just wished there was a way I could share that but I don't know how to. It is truly one of those things that I can not put into words. Speaking of words, my apologies for the long response. I tend to ramble a great deal especially when I get to talking about things such as this. I thank you for the comment. It has done my heart well.
 

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