Total believer in Jesus, Joy and Java. Retired science teacher, doodler and aspiring cartoonist.
I've always loved good storytelling and I've read some of the world's best, stories that leave me stunned and heart-warmed...and also have some special insight into how people's hearts and minds work...and how people strove to be better and serve better. That's a lot to ask of a story, and its why bookstores are generally a disappointment for me; but its why I hang around DA searching for talented storytellers and finding continual trickles of inspired storytelling.
I give to others what I want to receive: comments that require time and focus to deliver. And if, by your comments, you reveal that you are engaged by the story you are...a-mazing support for me. I survive comfortably on modest means that allow me to produce a couple of pages of webtoons a week. However if I no longer received viewer feedback, I would dump my buffer and quit; for I am a live performer, and viewer feedback is the validation of the story.
Haha; we had our own Yellowstone Buffalo story with my junior high son with a camera, a couple of decades back. Never got closer than fifty yards, but they are big and his mother was properly alarmed. Ironically, my much older sons are now telling my to quit doing risky activities because I'm and "old man". I'm sure it's love, but I detect a mischievous twinkle in their eyes nay-the-less.