Dear khackett! Allow me to disturb you once again. (Don't know an other way but a post here. And I guess this is off-topic. Sorry for that.) Steemit get's much more interesting to me, thanks to your goodness! Thank you again for your kindness and your pardon! I have learned something from you. Other people would not be as kind as you are.
Had a long day, too much coffee, hectic. Somebody had told me, that I should flag spam at Steemit, if I see one. Me stupid did not even see your upvote first. How bad can I get ... strange ...
(btw: am not an english native speaker. excuse my bad English)
Main thing I learned from you is, that there are ways to help people, that I do not even know and that I will have to learn. I will have to read in detail how Steemit works. I will need much more steempower to help people like the hickorymack family via this interesting channel. I will have to buy much more STEEM. I don't even know how to send Steempower to people, who I want to support. Don't mind, I will learn that! And I will buy more STEEM instead of downpowering or so.
Hickorymack is a very talented writer. It is a very sad thing, that millions of families in USA have to live under very bad conditions. To be honest, I think that the Obama-regime was one of the badest things, that could happen to the once free American people. More and more people of a once great nation turned into supplicants of the socialist state. Everything for the money-makers of the FED and their gangs, nothing for the poor and those with bad preconditions. I guess, the US-Dollar will fail during few years. One should prepare for this. Maybe with silver and gold, maybe with Bitcoin.
Your very kind reply means much too much. Thank you again. I will follow your channel, to learn more about your social work for homeless American families and to support them. I still don't understand this Steemit and thought of some bad aspects earlier. But if it is possible to support talented families like hickorymacks, it is a great thing! It sure is better to use STEEM than US-Dollars. A wire transfer to USA would be good for the banks. This way I learn to appreciate STEEM. Could not think of any real world use earlier.
I understand, that I behaved like an elephant in the china shop and have to learn the principles of Steemit first.
For you, I have searched my photo archive for a very nice flower. I hope you like it. I have photographed it on the island of La Palma, at the beach in Los Cancachos.
I appreciate your genuine and thoughtful comment. This is what I love about Steemit, and you'll see as you're here for a while, that people can disagree, but ultimately work out their differences and help each other learn. I can see how the treeplanter comment looked kind of spammy, it has a graphic that's a little too large for a comment, but the concept of the bot is very cool. You can only upvote others with it, and every $1 pays for planting a tree! It's an easy mistake to make thinking it to be spam.
Your other comments didn't sit well with me and I probably should have voiced my opinion rather than flag you, but honestly I had a shit morning and was cranky. Your comment about Obama and Trump rubbed me the wrong way and here's why..
Americans have never been free. None of us truly have. We appear to be spoiled mindless consumerists and many believe that it's the fault of the government. It's not. We let ourselves be brainwashed into thinking this way. Steemit community proves that to me. When we the people of the world control the creation and distrubution of money, it changes our focus from trying to grab the most money for ourselves and encourages us to help others. Maybe not all of us have quite come that realization yet, there are certainly some here on steemit that only want the most money. But with time that may change.
There are certainly some "steemit etiquette" things that nobody really talks about when you sign up. One of those is telling someone how or what to vote for. Your other comment about how she should vote more was I believe well intended, but it might have been better left unsaid. She is a busy mom transitioning to a new home after a tough time in her life. She makes time to write and her posts are always top notch, but that may be all she has time for in a day on steemit. I spend roughly 8 hours a day on steemit. Either writing my own posts, responding to comments, upvoting good content, curating, etc. But I have that luxury. She doesn't. So that's why I flagged those comments.
I felt I owed you an explanation after your sincere apologies, which I of course accept and I hope there's no hard feelings. I do offer a fun contest on my blog everyday that I encourage you to participate in. It's a random challenge everyday, sometimes easy like today is share your favorite song and tell what it means to you. Sometimes they're harder, but it might be a good way for you to practice english more. Even though your english is actually very good, I understood you fine. 😀
And smoke on my friend! I love both the pictures you posted, but the ganja flower is my favorite. So pretty. 😍