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I’m struggling with a feeling of helplessness about Ukraine & Russia. 🇺🇦🇷🇺 I suspect you are, too. 😨 Two years after the covid mask mandates were put into place, 😷 they are being lifted here in a few minutes🕛. It’s a moment that many are happy to see😊. It’s a visible move toward life as we knew it, but the war in Ukraine ⚔️weighs heavily on all of us🗺️. Creative solutions & organizations have surfaced that are giving us ways to help🎁💵. I’ve contributed to several efforts that will provide supplies & shelter, 🧤🏘️ but I feel like I’m pasting a band aid🤕 over a catastrophic condition that really needs open-heart surgery😵. The daily news is filled with images of bombed out buildings, wounded people, & soldiers, & reports of deaths, including children. 💻📱📰 It paints pictures that conjures up loathing for the Russian president🚫. I’m seeing goodbye posts from Russian friends who fear they will soon lose the ability to stay in touch with their Instagram friends & family. 👋 It’s heartbreaking💔. Some of us have known each other for many years👭👬🧑‍🤝‍🧑. Instagram has bridged divides & enabled us to exchange our good feelings for one another – often without words🤗. What needs to happen? 🤔 How are you dealing with your feelings about what is going on? 😢 . . PHOTOS: Peaceful views on March 9, 2022, from #LewisCounty #theHorsfallHouse #haybarns #barnsofinstagram #cowshed #pasture #sunsets #sunsetloversgram #cloudporn #sunsetporn #cloudscapes #cloudscapesphotography . . #ukraine #russia #againstwar #istandwithukraine . . (at Gifford Pinchot National Forest) https://www.instagram.com/p/Ca_wRsau9yX/?utm_medium=tumblr

This week @JeffKeniPulver invited me to  the #VON3 Summit 🌐 (Voice|Video on the Net). Speakers discussed NFTs (non-fungible tokens) & Web 3.0 (Worldwide Web based on blockchain). Most of the discussions were waaay over my head, but it got me thinking. 🧠 I bet most of us have heard of NFTs but don’t understand what they are. I’ve associated them with crazy art, like the Nyan Cat 🌈🐈 that, in Feb. 2021, sold for 300 ETH (Ether crypto currency), or about $690,000. 💰 It’s enough to make me feel like running & screaming😱 as I cover my ears to block out the noise of the future. 🙉 But is it inevitable? 🤔 WHAT IS NFT? A non-fungible token is unique & can’t be swapped for something of equal value. Like, a $10 bill = ten $1 bills, 🧮 but the Mona Lisa can’t be traded for another Mona Lisa. 🎨 HOW DOES IT WORK? It’s verified via blockchain, which IBM defines as a shared, immutable ledger that eases the process of recording transactions and tracking assets. ▪️▫️◾◽◼️◻️⬛ I came across @jchris on Twitter 🐦& liked his explanations 9:24 AM–Jan 24, 2022: “[NFT] is more like a link than an asset. You’re buying your name at the top of the list of holders. 📋 The value comes from the previous holders (& the link to the creator), more than the image. 🖼️ NFTs are not about scarcity; they’re a new type of link🔗—one that memorializes how it moves through a community📍 & becomes valuable because of its history. 💲 [It’s] a link that gains its uniqueness from human interactions. 🧑‍🤝‍🧑👫👫 This is old & new. Objects that gain value from their history become heirlooms. 📜 NFTs do that & it can feel uncanny.” People can see & even download NFT images, but they can’t own or be verified on the blockchain. 🔐 Chris Torres, creator of Nyan Cat, says many popular & expensive NFTs tend to be closely linked with internet & meme culture, that appeal to the Web3 crowd. 🕸️ I’m not quite there. Are you? What do artists think of NFTs? If you like & collect art? Do you want to “own” something ethereal like an NFT? PHOTOS: Our #Airbnb in Randle, WA; Grass #patterns & #hoarfrost #LewisCounty #washingtonstate #MtRainier in the #settingsun #nfts #nftstories #nyancat #blockchain (at The Horsfall House) https://www.instagram.com/p/CZTnePJrbqn/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope yours was great! 💌⁣ ⁣ Do you have time to read for fun? If so, what is the best book you’ve read lately? 📖⁣ ⁣ Up til 2014 when we started @alkisurfshop, 🏖️ 🌊 I used to scan the New York Times bestseller list to check how many of the books I’d read ✅⁣ ⁣ Then after Alki, I had a corporate job and was insanely busy. 😱 I remember reading “Thank You for Being Late,” by Thomas Friedman, and “So You Want to Talk About Race,” by Ijeoma Oluo — gifts from my boss👤...sort of required reading. ⁣ ⁣ As a full-time student, I have to read textbooks that are often very dry and technical. 💤 I can feel my eyeballs wandering off the pages. 👀⁣ ⁣ Most of my textbooks have been, well, textbooks. But recently I enjoyed, “The Power of Moments,*” ⚡written by Chip Heath and Dan Heath. ⁣ ⁣ They talk about how most of us go through our lives acknowledging peak moments like graduation, marriage, 🎂 birthdays, etc. 🎉 And they ask why must there be so much time between rewarding moments when many small triumphs 👑 can be acknowledged each day? 🎖️⁣ ⁣ We can consciously  guide our lives to include more fulfilling moments.💝⁣ ⁣ It's easy to see why it made it onto the NYT bestseller list. It inspires us to understand how we can transform ordinary tasks into extraordinarily rewarding ones. 🏆And it makes me wonder how I might incorporate this thinking into my own life, or even my career someday.❓⁣ ⁣ @subegardie is reading the terrific author Ken Follett. 📘 I’m curious to know if you have any “must-read” suggestions? 📣⁣ ⁣ Wishing you all great weekends filled with moments of “elevation, insight, pride, and connection.*” 🗻💝⁣ ⁣ Photos: flooding created a "lake view" near our #home #MtRainier; #lewiscounty #washington #explorewashington #flood #water #views #airbnb #flowers from Claudia, #cat card from Suzanne #catsofinstagram #caturday #flowersofinstagram #flowerstagram #valentinesday⁣ (at The Horsfall House) https://www.instagram.com/p/B8lQLbtA4Ev/?igshid=ixkjorftoyaf

#Weston #LewisCounty #WV #Appalachia #photos #architecture (at Weston, West Virginia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3iH6upHjUujWeUkpND-FqaGdMGPxx3116BE4Y0/?igshid=1lwhv7pm94i3r