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@hereandthere

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Urban homesteader, old hippie, writing my memoirs

steemit.com/@hereandthere
VOTING POWER100.00%
DOWNVOTE POWER100.00%
RESOURCE CREDITS100.00%
REPUTATION PROGRESS31.28%
Net Worth
8.958USD
STEEM
0.000STEEM
SBD
16.284SBD
Own SP
17.179SP

Detailed Balance

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Account Info

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2020/05/08 10:10:42
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2019/08/04 17:25:03
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2018/08/04 17:55:27
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bodyCongratulations @hereandthere! You have received a personal award! [![](https://steemitimages.com/70x70/http://steemitboard.com/@hereandthere/birthday1.png)](http://steemitboard.com/@hereandthere) 1 Year on Steemit <sub>_Click on the badge to view your Board of Honor._</sub> > Do you like [SteemitBoard's project](https://steemit.com/@steemitboard)? Then **[Vote for its witness](https://v2.steemconnect.com/sign/account-witness-vote?witness=steemitboard&approve=1)** and **get one more award**!
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2018/05/16 20:20:21
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2018/02/07 22:03:54
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2018/02/07 22:02:57
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bodyLoved this! Made my day!
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2018/02/07 03:11:15
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2018/01/09 06:39:15
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2017/11/10 16:52:54
authorhereandthere
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2017/11/03 18:08:15
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2017/11/03 16:52:54
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bodyWell, an update: I have been reading Teeka T and based loosely on his ideas, I am putting a small amount (my first crypto investments) into Bitcoin, Litecoin, and Ether.
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2017/10/17 23:39:00
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2017/10/13 01:54:45
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2017/10/12 02:33:36
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2017/10/11 05:48:33
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bodyThank you very much for your kind message! Yes, it has been a hard test but one that we, as a community, have endured with solidarity. I feel inspired by all the wonderful sceenes of solidarity I have witnessed in the previous weeks. I am following your account already. Thank you again for your comment!
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2017/10/11 00:43:15
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2017/10/11 00:40:09
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2017/10/10 23:39:00
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2017/10/09 17:11:57
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2017/10/09 17:09:33
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2017/10/09 16:52:18
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2017/10/09 16:50:39
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2017/10/09 16:49:54
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2017/10/09 16:49:03
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2017/10/08 15:59:03
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bodyThanks for your helpful comments! Will keep monitoring Litecoin for a while before buying in.
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2017/10/08 00:21:30
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2017/10/08 00:07:18
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bodyWhen I go to the Bitcoin machine it buys/sells only 2 cryptos, Bitcoin and Litecoin. I actually get litecoins and buy things online with them. I actually use it, unlike some of these small coins that no one anywhere actually use. My only concern is the big drop it did like a month or two ago when it was around 80, it has never recovered, or it has not yet. I would think people who got in on Litecoin when it was high probably don't have nice things to say about it. But yeah the low fees make it even competition to Paypal, and it's fast. I think it has potential other coins do not as a practical coin people actually use.
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2017/10/07 23:59:12
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2017/10/07 23:59:12
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2017/08/17 06:04:45
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2017/08/16 23:15:27
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Freetown gets an average of about 20 inches of rain in August but this year has been a whole lot wetter. Freetown is set in hills, and the roads and houses are often built inadequately to handle even their ordinary rains, let alone what hit them this week.</p> <p>I haven't heard back from my friend in Freetown yet, and I pray that she survived. Knowing her, she is probably out working like a maniac to help those in need. Isa Johnston and I became buddies back in 1963, when we were both members of an Operation Crossroads Africa work camp in Moyamba, a small town. We stayed in touch by letters (computers, let alone email, didn't exist back then, nor did cellphones) and we managed to see each other once when we were both in Europe at the same time. Then we lost touch. Only a few weeks ago, while doing research for this book, did we get back in connection.&nbsp;</p> <p>She had been head of Habitat for Humanity in Uganda for some years. 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body<html> <p><img src="https://s20.postimg.org/fxdo3vezh/19905428_10154721696166127_2269028142730840495_n.jpg" width="240" height="320"/></p> <p>Yesterday morning I woke up eager to get to my laptop and work on the short book I've almost finished. <em><strong>African Summer: A Crossroader in Sierra Leone</strong></em> is Book 2 in my memoirs, which have the series title <em><strong>Moved by Curiosity</strong></em>. (Book 1 hasn't been started yet but it's about my trip around the world when I was 19.)</p> <p>But before I settled down yesterday to work, I discovered that once again the people of Sierra Leone were having a hard time. After a devastating civil war that lasted about a decade, and then the Ebola outbreak which killed thousands more recently, this small country (about the size of West Virginia, I think) was suffering again. Floods and massive mudslides in the capital city of Freetown had been killing hundreds of people overnight. 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Freetown gets an average of about 20 inches of rain in August but this year has been a whole lot wetter. Freetown is set in hills, and the roads and houses are often built inadequately to handle even their ordinary rains, let alone what hit them this week.</p> <p>I haven't heard back from my friend in Freetown yet, and I pray that she survived. Knowing her, she is probably out working like a maniac to help those in need. Isa Johnston and I became buddies back in 1963, when we were both members of an Operation Crossroads Africa work camp in Moyamba, a small town. We stayed in touch by letters (computers, let alone email, didn't exist back then, nor did cellphones) and we managed to see each other once when we were both in Europe at the same time. Then we lost touch. Only a few weeks ago, while doing research for this book, did we get back in connection.&nbsp;</p> <p>She had been head of Habitat for Humanity in Uganda for some years. 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STM7udFDb4RqwpvSypriyEDLPYX6H1Vm2C4jvtU9Y5qhNjoSSGprT1/1
Posting
Single Signature
Public Keys
STM6hqd59VDCpCny1EhFWwKYdJa5hA9ceZJcdgaaxfJo3vXcyQNwW1/1
Memo
STM7ZRkrXYZ2WrDCc2tWpyYztuaFDx9QTB8nwC9Ksr6iRPiLHHJjo
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        1
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}

Witness Votes

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[
  "jesta"
]