500 steem isn't much?!!!! I've been working my tail off for nearly a year now to get my sp up to 500 - I'm almost there!

I love this place. I don't care so much about the money or my worth, I care about the people. Many many of them have supported little ole me for no reason other than that they are good and kind.

Interacting with folks from all over the world has enriched my life tremendously. I've learned so much! I've started writing, something I told myself for decades I could not do. In addition, the need for images has gotten me taking photographs, and a pursuit that never even interested me is now an obsession, the good kind.

My strategy at the moment is to get my sp to 500, then delegate any excess to the communities I have come to love: @freewritehouse, @naturalmedicine, @bananafish, @steemitbloggers, @theluvbug, @homesteaderscoop and others. So far I have made only one tiny delegation to dustbunny because I thought that would increase the value of my upvotes on comments by OTHERS, but it has turned out to benefit only me. I'd take that back if only I could figure out how!

And I would dearly love to be able to upvote comments on my and others posts, not only the posts themselves, because I love to get into conversations about the pieces. A higher upvote value for myself would enable me to do that more lavishly

Were I to be the chosen lucky steemian, I'd probably keep enough of this to get my upvote value to .01 and delegate the rest to the folks who have not only kept me afloat, but also sometimes given me wings.

Thank you for your consideration!