7 Simple Rules to Live By:

#SelfLove #KnowYourWorth #SettingBoundaries #SelfRespect #LetGo #PersonalGrowth #LifeRules #SelfCare #Empowerment #Mindset #LoveYourself #MovingOn #PositiveVibes #ReelChallenge #RulesToLiveBy #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

I've always wanted to be remembered in life but what they say is up to them. However, there is someone I'd like to hear eight words from.
#WritersLife #LoveMeAnyways #SayingGoodbye #CancerFight #MovingOn #Words #MerryChristmas #Christmas #NoApologies #GotLove

https://rickollie.com/2025/12/14/one-thing-i-hope-someone-says-about-me/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Finally, everyone left one by one.

#LettingGo #Solitude #MovingOn #LifeChanges #Alone #Reflection #Quotes #ShareInspireQuotes

I caught up with an old friend on their birthday. It seemed nice for a bit, then we got to talking.

I didn't like the way the conversation was going and what was being said about me, so I asked for it to stop.

They didn't stop.

I asked again, this time with a little offense.

Oh man, they did not like the offense. I had criticized their privilege, and they infantilizingly said, "take a time out," and blocked me temporarily.

Some days I wonder if some folks ever plan to outgrow these childish games.

I didn't block temporarily. I wish them well. May their final word carry them forth and aloft to whatever they desire.

I'm in grief, but at least I know I did right by me. I put down my boundary, and I answered its second violation and the defensiveness that followed with my absence.

If I am a good person, there's no greater punishment. If I'm not, there's no greater gift. So it's the best thing I can do no matter what. 💙

#Boundaries #Friendship #SelfRespect #Grief #MentalHealth #PersonalGrowth #MovingOn #SelfCare

Pendlermorgen, Wechsel zwischen Haltestellen, Bahnsteigen, Vierteln. Immer wieder mehr Nähe, als die Stunde braucht. Und immer wieder mehr Verzicht auf Gemeinsinn und Umgangsformen, als man gern akzeptieren möchte. Gerade bei jenen, die es kraft Alters und Lebenserfahrung besser wissen sollten. Viel Ratlosigkeit. Und dann schließen die Türen wieder.

#outerworld #concrete city #office hours #moving on #commuters procrastination

Its #FollowbackFriday - which seems a very apt time to announce I am unpacking at at a new instance, mastodon.world, where I am @Free2BMe.
Again I would like to thank vanlife.is and @axelrafn very much for being so supportive and friendly. Yet whilst I regret the impending closure of this site, I also know every season has an ending - forcing us not to stay put, but to go out and have of new adventures, find of fresh delights...
Now where did I put that kettle..?

#Relocation #MovingOn #Travel

Good morning, friends. 🌸🌸🌸

15 November 2025

When I was a kid, I had a Yamaha 250cc motorcycle—rode it like a dirt bike, though it wasn’t one. I’d take it up the trails of Dictionary Mountain in Spring Valley, California. I fell often, but that never stopped me. 🤔 Well, technically it did stop me—but only briefly. I’d get right back up and off I’d go again.

I rode that motorcycle until it wouldn’t ride anymore. When it broke, that was the end of it. I didn’t have the money to fix it. By then, I’d moved north to the big city of Keyes, California, where I once got a ticket for riding it fifty feet on a road.

Years later, the lessons of that motorcycle stayed with me. Just because you can afford to buy something doesn’t mean you can afford to own it. Ownership means maintenance. It means repair. It means responsibility. That’s especially true of mechanical things—and homes. They require care over time. It’s a dilemma for folks who need a car to get to work: they may afford the purchase, but can they afford the upkeep? Or will they drive it until the engine seizes—and then what?

You know, I don’t even remember what happened to that old motorcycle. I joined the Marines in 1971 and leaned into a different life. Those things just faded into the past.

The world turns.

“Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.” - Pat Summitt

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” - Confucius

“Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.” - W. Somerset Maugham

#photo #photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #ownership #accountability #maintenance #motorcycle #movingon #flower #plant

Weiter südwärts, weiter nachtwärts. Spuren roter Lichter, Pastelldämmerung, endloses Wechselspiel von dunklen und hellen Flächen, die an der Grenze der Wahrnehmung vorbeitreiben. Und dann ein langer Bogen, Wegweiser im Scheinwerferkegel. Diesselben Türme diesselben Plätze diesselben Stimmungen. Ein Hauch alter Ferne.

#outerworld #moving on #the village and the hills