I belong to quite a lot of learned societies. We collect firearms and discuss them at dinners and clubs and things.
The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realiz