Self-Awareness Question: Best Advice

Folks have mentioned an interest in questions and conversations that make them think. So I've decided to offer more of those. This is the current list on self-awareness.

36. What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?

"Going through puberty makes people argue for no other reason, so we're going to drive each other nuts for the next 10 years or so.  Let's try not to take it personally and avoid saying anything unforgivable."

Poem: "The Wings of Transformation"

This poem is spillover from the May 5, 2020 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired and sponsored by Soupshue. It also fills the "Heroship" square in my 5-1-20 card for the Sumerian Me Bingo fest. This poem belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series, coming before "Building Your Wings on the Way Down."

Warning: This poem contains intense and controversial topics. Highlight to read the warnings, some of which are spoilers. It includes workplace bullying, an abusive boss, questionable infiltration of another country, reference to illegal loggers and mad scientists, questionable ethics, just following orders, canon-typical violence, unwisely designed experimental aircraft that are fairly compared to dirgecraft, parachuting out of damaged aircraft, falling out of damaged aircraft without a parachute, panic, mid-air rescue, abandonment, very messy medical details with very limited supplies, in the middle of a jungle, fear of failure, fear of job loss, officially unapproved but effective medical supplies, queasiness and dizziness, situationally forced intimacy, arguing, cape politics conflicts, past death in childbirth due to superpower complications, past slavery, medical complications, carrying, impaired consent, assisted decision-making, and other mayhem. If these are sensitive issues for you, please consider your tastes and headspace before reading onward.

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Notes for "The Wings of Transformation"

These are the notes for "The Wings of Transformation."

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Birdfeeding

Today is sunny and warm.

I fed the birds.

We cut a big pile of branches from the edges of the south lot. 

EDIT 6/25/20 -- I broke up some of the dead wood in the south lot, filled a trolley, and dumped it on the firepit.

EDIT 6/25/20 -- I broke up more of the dead wood in the south lot, filled a trolley, and dumped it on the firepit.

EDIT 6/15/20 -- We burned off the pile in the firepit.  Took a while to get it lit because rain, but this way sparks won't spread.

Fireflies everywhere tonight.  :D  Take that, insect apocalypse!  Screw, little sparkles, screw your lights out!