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ericvancewalton (80)in #music • 2 days ago
A Fun Ending to a Completely Unexpected Experience
My wife and I went to see a show the other night at one of our favorite Twin Cities’ venues, The Dakota Jazz Club . I have sort of a love/hate relationship with this place…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 6 days ago
We Were Part of Something So Freaking Amazing
It’s been an interesting past few days in the crypto-world. The BitMex and BitMart exchanges have both recently announced they’re winding down. There are now reports of frozen…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 8 days ago
Midsummer Reflections
If we’re paying attention, life begins to reveal little (and sometimes LARGE) lessons to us as we’re traveling down our individual paths. Within the past few years I’ve learned…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 9 days ago
A Hundred Small Weathers
Sequestered in a corner that keeps folding into other corners, I lose myself in thoughts that no longer belong to me. They have surrendered to the wallpaper and to the…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 12 days ago
Too Much Past and Not Enough Presence
The raging wildfires and the air quality fiasco that’s followed in this part of the world got me thinking about how bad the quality of the air was for us every single day in the…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 13 days ago
The Bag, The Boots, The Whole Damn Philosophy
Look, I've spent enough of my life hauling gear through customs lines and stumbling, jet-lagged, down narrow foreign streets to know a few things. One of them is this: most of…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 14 days ago
How Much Are 1.8 Million Reads Worth?
Morale has been at an all time low here on Hive lately and I realize when token prices and engagement are low it’s sometimes tough to muster enthusiasm. But recently I had a wake…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 16 days ago
And Now, We Wait
The manuscript for my upcoming book, Walking With The Muse has officially been handed off to the book designer today! These past few weeks have been wonderfully tiring. It’s…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 19 days ago
Book Progress, The Heat Dome, and Our Complicated Relationship with Mother Nature
I couldn't be more happy with the progress I'm making on my new book, Walking with the Muse . This week has felt a little like time-traveling. As I've been combing through…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 21 days ago
Irrational and Quirky
I was thinking the other day about how irrational and quirky us humans can be sometimes. This can be both endearing and/or frustrating, depending on the specific situation.…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #travel • 24 days ago
Precrastination
During a recent roadtrip it dawned on me that my passport was set to expire next year. Considering the reports of long backlogs for US passport renewals there was no way I was…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 27 days ago
It’s Strange…
It’s strange how quickly certain aspects of life fall into place once you make up your mind and state your intention. Here I am just about a week-and-a-half after deciding to…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 29 days ago
Another Road Trip and Saying Yes to Opportunities
How can it have been eleven days since my last post? We have a lot to catch up on since I last wrote. First of all, over the last week-and-a-half we took the Model Y on another…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • last month
A Decade on Hive
Prior to 2016, if you would have told me a relatively niche, decentralized social media platform that paid in cryptocurrency would have been the key to making my dreams come true…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • last month
One of the Two Most Important Jobs on Earth
I wanted to wish a happy Heavenly Father's Day to one of the toughest, most kind-hearted, and funniest people ever to walk the planet. He could fix anything, was always ready to…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • last month
The Last Reasonable Man
The algorithms had already perfected the metaphorical herding of humanity a decade ago. By 2032 the machines knew everything there was to know. By this time we were left with two…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • last month
The Best Birthday Present I Didn't Ask For
For me, the week of my birthday has always been a time of contemplation. About life, my place in the world. The time serves as an annual check-in, a tallying up of wins and…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #poem • 2 months ago
The Age of Just Enough
There once was a time when enough was enough, the world was like a cat, curiously content claws in, purring softly it was the simple wants we carried in the way children…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 2 months ago
The Dependable Soldier: One Leatherman’s 30-Year Journey
I can remember buying it like it was yesterday. It was 1991 and I was just a kid in my early 20s. The story of my life was yet to be written and I carried the full weight of all…
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ericvancewalton (80)in #story • 2 months ago
3,000 Miles on Tesla's FSD: The Incredible Upgrades, One Terrifying Glitch, and the Cult Mentality That Endangers Progress
For the handful of you still reading my posts (kidding, engagement these days is what it is) you already know that I just drove my Tesla Model Y over 3,000 miles from the upper…
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