Wanted to tie up a few loose ends, and thought no better place to do so than in what may be my final post on the Steem blockchain. There are a couple of reasons I have for coming to this decision, and will share them before tying up the other loose end. First, let me say I appreciate so many of you I have had the blessing to encounter here. I have witnessed many acts of kindness and generosity, not only towards myself but to so many others. The work that 
The major reason I will be pulling back is my schedule. Life circumstances being the cumulative effect of my choices has led me into reentering the work force some 10 months ago. Having lost my vehicle, it further reduced my options in the employment world, leading me to take a very physically demanding job close by that leaves me exhausted by the time I stumble home from work. It has been a chore spending hours nightly researching, writing and then reading more here to curate. I find this has become almost a full time job around the paying one, and my desire to secure a possible better future based on accruing these Steem tokens has led me to sacrificing the time I can enjoy now with my loved ones. I don't know how many more years I have left here, and it occurs to me that spending so much time writing here in the hopes of payoff at some undetermined time in the future is a trade off that ensures I miss out on what it is I have been working towards.
I will still be coming around daily to curate, although I probably won't be commenting much, if at all. I am at a point where my curating rewards me 4-5 Steem per week ( I have read it would double if I set up an autovoter, but I do everythign manually), so I will grow slow and steady. And it will afford me the opportunity to support some here that are targets without sticking a target on my own back. No post, no comment, no target. Having said that, a message to those who have been sucked into becoming what it is they fight. It has saddened me to watch many of you whom I have grown to love and admire fall into using the same tactics and language as those who have outraged you. Not only is the battle one that is taking place on a battleground skewed to leave you decimated, but worse, your hearts have become infected with the very nature you found an abomination. It is my hope that at some point a reflection will take place for you and you will understand a few tokens is not worth the entry price for allowing that evil to live and fester in your hearts. The world needs your hearts in their pure form, what a beautiful thing it has been to see them shine out to us. And for your own health, YOU need them to be pure and shine. Watching some of you become what it is you fight is the other reason I want a break from this. It's a dis-ease and as we all can witness, it can be communicable.
I believe in the coming months the push for the 50/50 author/curator split will become the new rule. As has become evident to me since joining, human nature suggests that those with the power to decide usually will vote in the best outcome for themselves. This, in my opinion, will be yet further testament on why Steem will continue to stagnate until such a time as apps servicing other visions come aboard. The argument that it will draw more investment in for passive income is not logical, as there is already a nice payoff for those buying in and delegating to vote bots. Large money typically will not wish to spend all day reading and watching videos to vote on, so I can't see where it would serve as an enticement to stop that behavior either. I began a series on programmers building apps for businesses that would help them keep more cash flow or grow cash flow. I alluded to the next one I was to write, but no longer feel the drive to finish researching it. I do feel obligated to give it a mention here in my final post however since I promised it and it has such huge potential.
Targeting Churches For Your Box Program
Churches have one of the largest cash flows as an industry. And it has evolved past the collection plate us older folks knew.
From money flowing across borders into corrupt regions that are known to stealing aid, to local programs in the communities and those within their own church, velocity is huge as well as the methods used to deliver it. Steem would be a perfect fit for security in sending funds across those borders. So many ways Steem could aid the church structure. Just a fraction of the velocity flowing through the Steem blockchain would make the programmer(s) responsible very wealthy, it would send the Steem token to the moon. They could literally buy all the liquid Steem for a fraction of the flow through the hands in one single year. The possibilities here for a programmer of vision is astounding. Helping others is not a difficult process, nor is understanding and discovering what problems others have to help them solve them.
The tactics in the above video couldbe used by any programmer with vision to structure apps that would be in demand.
Thank You
Many of you have been such a huge blessing in my life travel. I appreciate the times I have been helped in shedding some of my ignorance, appreciate watching love manifest among those who understand we are brothers and sisters. I look forward to quietly voting for your energy from a place of quiet now. Blessings to you and yours.