Just out of curiosity... have you ever watched any of the three Cyber City OEDO oavs?

Nice!

I will light a proper Yule Log fire one day

Personal suggestion: start keeping a dream journal so you can track what outside events are triggering the internal dreams. I started one in my 30's when I was having recurrent death dreams and it helped (YMMV)

And I thought the current (dangerous) idiots in Washington DC were bad...

Malfunctioning, maybe... and even that is only temporary (believe it or not)

in contrast, this morning I was part of a group teaching seniors about organizations designed to help with "aging solo". Create hope when they try to take it away.

You're welcome! If things go the way I hope by Halloween I will celebrate with a Patreon subscription - even if it's only Tier 2

In rebuttal: I have been a fan of Collar 6 for years and the only reason I don't subscribe is fixed income. That doesn't change the fact that your work has made smile, laugh, and cry at different times.

True - I give you that from that perspective. I just worry about anybody whose skills/talent I admire getting so busy with earning a living that they forget to have a life. And yes, I'm speaking from experience.

Do you truly consider the time spent on other projects - all of which, in some way or other, large or small, have improved you and your artist's skills and taught you something about yourself - to be "wasted time" because of a lack of public acclaim?

"Let no man say
And say it to your shame
That all was loveliness
Until *you* came."
- Conservation Corps, Boy Scouts of America (now Scouting USA)

PREACH!

Um, I don't know if you follow women's college basketball at all, but a league that emphasizes academic scholarship as much as (if not more than) athletic ability is sending three teams to the NCAAs for the first time in its history. As an alumni of one and an employee of another, I am PROUD AF!#Ivy

I have REALLY got to learn the meanings on all the traditional Japanese patterns in my cross stitch book...