The Dash Poem (By Linda Ellis)
I read of a man who stood to speak
At the funeral of a friend
He referred to the dates on the tombstone
From the beginning...to the end

He noted that first came the date of birth
And spoke the following date with tears,
But he said what mattered most of all
Was the dash between those years

For that dash represents all the time
That they spent alive on earth.
And now only those who loved them
Know what that little line is worth

For it matters not, how much we own,
The cars...the house...the cash.
What matters is how we live and love
And how we spend our dash.

So, think about this long and hard.
Are there things you'd like to change?
For you never know how much time is left
That can still be rearranged.

If we could just slow down enough
To consider what's true and real
And always try to understand
The way other people feel.

And be less quick to anger
And show appreciation more
And love the people in our lives
Like we've never loved before.

If we treat each other with respect
And more often wear a smile,
Remembering this special dash
Might only last a little while

So, when your eulogy is being read
With your life's actions to rehash...
Would you be proud of the things they say
About how you spent YOUR dash?

I see that I am not the only one familiar with that poem.

Around here even tracking information is not a guarantee that it will arrive when it is supposed to or even that it will arrive where it is addressed to.
This week I have had two back to back days when a package was being delivered via USPS and I was watching the tracking all the way to the final point of it being delivered.
Both times it was delivered to the wrong place.
We live in a mobile home community and the mail is generally directed to the boxes but if it is a package that is supposed to be delivered the same carrier on consecutive days dropped it on the wrong porch.
The first time my wife called the post office who sent the driver back to retrieve it and get it to us. After that you would figure she would remember the next day which unit is mine.
But nope it was delivered to the wrong place again.

How long did it take Bill Clinton or Barry o

Similar to the way I do except that one of my backup drives is kept at my daughter's house in the event my house is destroyed either by a fire or more likely a tornado.

Yup nuclear is totally clean plenty of people living in three mile island and Chernobyl can verify that oh and Fukushima can attest to this.
Personally I live in middle TN where they closed down the nuclear plant due to it leaking but the hydroelectric dams are still functional and provide the majority of the electric power used in this region.

The Colorado river drainage is more due to the lack of significant snowfall for several years in a row.
The largest supply of water to the Colorado river is spring thaw in the Rockies which ultimately feeds into the Colo river.

I have always tried to tell people that when it comes to digital photos always have more than one backup.
Usually suggest at
Least three copies of the photos with one being off the premises.
I back up my hard drive regularly to my home nas which is a raid configuration for the redundant storage which gives me a dual copy of the hard drive as a guard against hard drive failure
I also have the computer as well as my phone configured to automatically make a backup for all my photos to my Amazon pictures account.
I have prime so unlimited photo storage is free.
Also once a month I will take another backup for my hard drive and swap it out for the previous one in the safe at my daughter's house.
This seems like excessive but you have to consider that our family pictures were lost in a house fire some years ago and that's why I emphasize to have an off premises backup.
Hard drive circuitry will not withstand a fire so your pictures would still be lost if only an on premises backup.

In the case of many of them a lot longer than that.

I love the swirly bokeh

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I'm of the opinion that should apply to the White house as well

I have a good friend who shoots portraits at event venues.
He use Darkroom for the ease of operation as well as the fact that it also tracks payment as well as the printing.
Using this he is able to set everything up and just hire almost anyone to run the operation in each location.

I forced my not compatible computer to update and I have not really had any issues with it all my apps are still working just fine and the system has not crashed yet.

Just arm them with a simple club

However the fact that you have to remove the ring makes them different from a practical standpoint.