Do you have a unique talent?

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Welcome to another week here on Planet Earth. It is Monday the 24th of November, which is, of course, Celebrate Your Unique Talent Day! 🧶⛸✨

Indeed! A day to celebrate of the curious quirks, glorious gifts, and peculiar party tricks that make you utterly irreplaceable. Whether you can pirouette like a caffeinated swan, juggle three satsumas whilst humming Gershwin, or instantly know which Tupperware lid matches which container. Big, small, bizarre, or breath-taking, I think your talents deserve a little theatrical fanfare 🥳 Toot!

Have you a unique talent you'd like to share?
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I grew up in a large family that always had pets but have not since as an adult. Living about a core urban retail and residential district I often street walk exercise. Dog walkers seem to really like me because upon meeting, I can just look at dog faces in a way they seem to know I'm a dog person. Also use a kind voice, so they want to move towards me that opens up making possible fun comments. Because I'm a small kid sized male, dogs probably initially associate me with as non-threatening. Yeah, so a unique talent, haha.
 

I am a better horse handler and trainer than most trainers I know. Grandad was the Pegasus Wings under my feet, when it came to my own foundation training. Under his guidance, I started babies and trained for trail, not for the show ring.

In my life I have re-schooled several horses that were ruined by stupid people and found them homes with good trail riders. At one point, people were calling me.

Between going after horses most Linemen wouldn’t go near, and riding my snowmobile like it was the general Lee on the Dukes of Hazzard, I have done a stellar job of making a mess out of my spine. It is why I walk with a cane these days, but I wouldn’t trade any of it.

I am 78 and I would still be riding if it were at all possible. The difference is I would be sticking to my own trustworthy horses🤠🤠
 
I found out during a metaphysical course I took with my BFF and her good friend that I can do psychometry readings, pretty accurately. Before the course, I didn't even know what psychometry was. It is when one holds someone's personal object in hand and receives impressions, scenes and pertinent locations from it. Before you scoff, know that the government has (or had) a program that uses people for remote viewing puposes. Remote viewing was a key element in some of my readings. More about those readings here;
I Held Their Jewelry In My Hands And Did Psychometry Readings

Also don't think these are necessarily unique, but I am a composer-arranger-producer who has released original music and am (was) a sketch artist.
 
I used to write and record my own songs, and I still enjoy writing poetry. I also used to write very rude stories to put up on the internet, and I've written two full length sci fi novels, although neither of them is worth publishing.

I've also invented a left-hand support for the flute, and I tried to get it patented, but the idiot who had to assess the patent obviously knew nothing about musical instruments because he said that a clarinet support could be modified to do the same job (!!???!!!)

I play the guitar left-handed, and I've restrung a violin so that I can play it left-handed as well, although the tone isn't as good due to the position of the bass bar and sound post, and I can get a tune out of the flute, the clarinet, and my alto saxophone, although with the wind instruments I have to play them right handed.

Apart from that, because I fly a microlight (ultralight) I also was involved in the creation of a DVD about microlighting, where I was the front man who had to do all the talking and interviewing. I also had to find royalty free music for the video, and do all the mixing because the other bloke involved couldn't be bothered.

None of these are unique to me, apart from the flute support, but I've got disconnected interests across several different activities, oh. and I used to ride motorbikes for a living, until my prostate put a stop that. So then I retrained to program computers, and later on trained people on how to use not only some of the software I'd written, but also on a database reporting tool that I became something of an expert in using.

Lastly, I also can rebore and hone engine cylinders, and when I retired from programming I started up a business reboring and honing engine cylinders. Unfortunately, Covid put paid to that, so now I just sit here and try to remember the glory days, as I sink slowly into old age.
 
Yes, I can play the spoons. I've never met anyone else who does, so it must be fairly rare. I don't consider this any great gift to the world though.
More popular perhaps, I make jewelry. It relaxes me a lot and this is desirable. I get a lot of compliments on my stuff because I wear everything I make. I don't take orders when people find out I make my stuff because that might take the fun out of it and I'd like to keep it a leisure activity at least for a while longer.
 
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