I'd like to say goodbye to 2017. It was an amazing year.
Things I'm grateful for:
1.) Always first is family, friends and love.
2.) Bitcoin and its never boring journey. But also this year, I really started to explore other cryptocurrencies, including not only Steemit (yay!) and all the 'free' fork coins but also Dash; which I had first covered on the Keiser Report when it was Darkcoin and then in 2017, the Dash treasury ended up financing part of our road journey, Great American Pilgrimage. On that journey, we got to spread the Dash around and gave thousands of dollars worth away. The value of those coins is up more than four-fold since we gave them away, so hopefully the recipients managed to HODL!
3.) Journeys to new destinations. I've managed to visit 25 of our 50 states this year. Having lived in Europe for so long, there was so much I had neglected to see in my own home country. There is so much beauty, so many stories and just way more there than can be captured in a tweet or a 2 minute headline news story. We also got to see our beloved, Mexico City, before the devastating earthquake. I saw friends, sat in awe of the beauty and art everywhere and even ate ant eggs! Eeek.
Lunch with friends at Bitso!
Ant eggs this way . . .
4.) Finally, I am also grateful for the trials and tribulations, the unexpectedly nasty political and cultural backlash and viciousness happening at the moment, sometimes failing to achieve what I thought I had set out to do and also encountering some of the wrong people or even friends who failed to be as good as they could be. All of these bad experiences have also taught me a lot. Patience, fortitude and never forgetting to be gracious and strong no matter what.
And love. Always love. (See point one above).
P.S. - speaking of LOVE! I had meant to put this at point 3.5 . . . I married Charlie & Courtney Shrem this year! I will write about it more later but it was really such an honor and so surprising how cool it was to get a ministers license and marry two great friends. Here's a photo Max snapped of me performing the ceremony, I don't think I was ever so nervous in my whole life:
[Signed, Stacy]