I watch most of the sailing videos on You Tube and for most part I like them all. I started thinking about all the enjoyment I was getting but was not giving back anything in return. So I started paying attention to the patrons and did a bit of research. I soon realised that I could not be a patron to each sailing group and decided that I would pick one and make a sizeable contribution each month. But how do you decide which one is best for you. My thoughts were to select a group that I felt needed me. Not a group that already had a large group of patrons and could spend their money on most anything that they wanted but I would choose a group that I felt needed my help and that I could connect to. I chose Sailing Merawether because she met the criteria that I was looking for. Two young people from two different countries coming together and enjoying each other and working together to just have fun. They had a nice boat, nothing fancy but they were able to make it work. They were aware that they had a budget and were going to live within it. They were not struggling but were frugal with what they had. Kerine seems to have a good working knowledge of the boat and he uses Isabelle in such a way that helps him and gives her the information that she needs to be a better first mate. There were their work ethics, quality of video’s and other factors I won’t go into. And not one of my requirements but Isabelle is not hard to look at. :)

When my parents were alive, I tried so hard to help them stretch their meager retirement funds through investments. I subscribed to many newsletters and even paid over $7000 to become a member of an investment newsletter club only to be pointed in 100 different contradictory directions. I was turned onto great hope but was stuck in dead end investments. They never had the experience of getting ahead and lived off of the pension my dad had and social security. I have derived more benefit and learned more through Patreon than any other source of information I’ve ever applied myself to. Words can’t express how thankful I am to the Patron team and to James for helping my wife and me to finally understand the right way to view the markets. We both have benefited in our accounts and have a way to map out a financial plan that’s based on numbers not stories. All this time I thought that I was stupid or had bad instincts but I didn’t have the tools or the perspective necessary to succeed. I literally can’t thank you enough for sharing this life changing information at the price of charity. James, my wife and I watch your tireless efforts in helping others and only hope that you are finding fulfillment and work life balance. Than you and your team for spending yourselves to change the lives of so many like us.

I have been writing different kinds of stories for a family’s writers club. One day I saw this cool show called The Iron Giant. a show about a teen boy named Hogarth be friendly a gigantic martian Robot. I loved it so much that I decided to make my own version. Called Giant fiery red eagle. a heron shapeshifter. Named Elaina Solley. I later had another character an icy blue eagle named Kiley Stella. At first Kiley was going be Elaina’s own wingsister. But it was changed into twin sisters. my dad than suggested Elaina being a phoenix. I never heard of a phoenix not knowing what exactly a phoenix is. So he show me a you tube video of a phoenix. So that’s were I got into it. at first it was Elaina being arrested by these intredimensional eagle cops. Or I.E.F. but it was changed into fantasy, man vs Nature and Turf Wars. conquering and defending a territory. I watched a guidance novel video. It was than Elaina finding her missing family. Her enemies are slave traders. she was adopted by a mother forest dragoness named Ainsley. Along with her hatchlings. They basically go into hibernation. dragonesses become pregnant while hibernating. And then laid their own eggs. She finds her missing Family, while being transfer into Slavery. The tribe’s princess is currently pregnant with an new heir. She’s about gong into labor and they needed find away to escape before she does. An ticking time bomb issue. I realize there aren’t no many stories that has an actual Phoenix in it. Mostly just Phoenix Arizona. So I planned building a infinity phoenix series.

Edit: the “membership” tab for what I want the “home” tab to do, so I have adjusted my rating to reflect that I am not forced to use the algorithmic feed. I couldn’t get the membership tab to load anything before, but it seems to be working now. Patreon frequently makes sweeping design changes, and though it can be annoying to have the enter layout suddenly change in general these changes trend toward better functionality. However, the most recent version of the home page entirely removes the ability to see posts from all of my creators in reverse-chronological order. Instead, it displays things basically randomly based on some kind of algorithm. I’m not sure how the system decides what it thinks I will want to view, but it does a terrible job of it. It frequently displays old posts I have already read from a creator rather than most most recent ones, will show me random posts from people I have never subscribed to, and seems to prioritize certain creators à la google search ads. The new layout is a nice improvement, but please stop trying to force me to see why you want me to see instead of the people I am actively paying to read. I just have a building feeling of frustration every single time I open your app now. Why would you be actively making your app a worse experience to use?