@riverflows

I really love upcycling old furniture and giving it new life. There's so much of it, after all - it's easy to transform someone's kerbside trash into something unique and fresh. Wi…

'I washed the dishes and swept the floor', Jamie might say. And I, like the horrid wife I am, will answer: 'What do you want, a flippin' medal?' Because some things you shouldn…

<p>The other day, I went for a walk with my 8-year-old son. Maybe that will qualify this for #wednesdaywalk hosted by @tattoodjay.</p> <center><img src="https://files.peakd.com/fil…

Sometimes, I've just had this long and enthused conversation with a random stranger. It might be about travel, or surfing, or music, art, books, or more generally, *life*. I'm natt…

I’m fascinated by how trickle down can work in the real world. Not that neo-liberal mantra promoted by a kleptocratic oligarchy, but the real one. I wrote about it in my post about…

In the grounds of the school I work at as an emergency or supply teacher - infrequently, at the moment, sadly - there's a gnarled, twisted pepper tree. I'm not sure what species i…

https://img.leopedia.io/DQmeqJw2ix4uTE66yQHnQciW9864K8ntayv73AYBVRUBYhZ/image.png 8 Lines. That's all I managed to write in 4 hours....and yet it feels like a job well done. …

I love the idea of the Hand Written community on Hive. There's something deeply personal about seeing someone's written script, especially in a world where everything is typed on s…

Until the knife was against her throat, angled toward the whorl of her ear so the tip could work its way to the point that would dissemble her, he hadn’t believed he was capable.…

Nine years, huh? More than a quarter of my life, spent on the blockchain formerly known as Steem, now known as HIVE. I often reflect on my time spent on <em>chain</em> as opposed t…

A few years before COVID, I *burnt out*. It's common with high school teachers, overloaded with work and feeling pressure to get results, and the added politics (in my case, horren…

Last night I cried uncontrollably. 'Oh don't do that', Mum laughed. It was her fault - or maybe it was *everything* - the tension in my body for waiting a week and a half for an of…

My father loved nasi goreng. In Australia, we eat a lot of fusion food - Greek, Italian, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Chinese - all with an Aussie twist, where we use our fresh ingredie…

My grandson says, like many nearly three year olds that he 'wuvs' things. Elephants - he wuvs them. Edie the dog? Wuvs her. Me, I wuv my windows. I'm going to *miss* my windows o…

**I left a boyfriend**, who curled up on my front doormat to be kicked on the way out, but I left by the backdoor. I had been ready to leave for a long time, but he did not know i…

<center> .jpg)</center> It’s been a tough growing season, …

I wonder what Simone De Beauvoir would think of Andrew Tate, the manosphere and incels. I suppose she'd think it just another iteration of the division between the sexes, caused …

The older you get, the more you think about death. Or maybe, faced with the passings of loved ones, you spend a little time dwelling on mortality. Some monks meditate on death to …

*Is your Hive content AI-generated?* And what kind of tolerance do you have for AI-generated s#!t here on Hive? I was thinking about this just now, how sad it is that when we com…

### Welcome to Week 19 of the Hive Garden Question! Thanks everyone for entering last week with the theme 'free stylin'. We love all your interpretations of the prompts and encou…