Attachment to Items

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What personal belongings do you hold most dear?
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I try to not get too attached to items, within reason.

We need items to live and be comfortable but they’re all temporary and should not be worshipped or held dear. Worse, we need to plan for their taxes, insurance, storage, disposal, and replacement. Cars are a good example where many people tend to overspend. I believe the car needs to be able to move people between two points, needs to work well, and needs to provide good safety features. But a car should be replaceable, should not have a name, and should not be treated as anything other than a transportation device, and should not be a reason for a person to be in debt.

The things you own end up owning you

Tyler Durden

One small exception in my life are books, where I have plenty and like watching them. But I know I can get rid of books by donating them so I’m not too attached. I celebrate the books that leave home to open space for new books.

Dragonfired by J. Zachary Pike, Book Review

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Books have a way of aging in your mind. I gave the first two Orconomics books 4 stars and enjoyed them moderately at the time. But the story and its characters lingered long after I finished reading, quietly growing on me. Eventually, I realized I was ready for book three.

I went in knowing it would be slow and long—and it was. Think of a late Terry Pratchett novel, stretched out, with a touch of romance. It was dark, funny, and packed with content. It was 800+ pages and took me more than a week to complete.

This time, our heroes must deal with the evil King Johan, all while tying up a wide web of loose ends. Gorm leads the charge – a dwarf with a berserker-like power (though it’s never called that). His band include an elf ranger, a fire mage, a necromancer/fire-mage who happens to be the son of a Liche, and some other, more mystical beings. Each of them gets a moment to shine.

I think it deserves 5*/5

PS. I misspelled the book name as Dragonfried, which I think would be at least as appropriate as Dragonfired. I read the Bulgarian edition.

Alpine Rockcress

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This wild flower can be purchased as a garden plant in Sofia. We found it at around 2000 meters altitude. It’s called something like stone-loving Arabis in Bulgarian. There were lots of rocks around it.