The Powers That Be say we need to laugh every day ... so here's a little sumpin-sumpin' to fulfill today's quota .......... I thought this was darn funny and I thank my friend, Wendy-Lady for passing it along to me (and for that matter, thank you to whoever posted it for the world to pass on). Enjoy!
Thursday, May 7, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Blogger musings ...
I've gotten into the habit of (every once in a while) clicking on the links of people making comments on blog entries I'm following. 90% of the time the blogs I'm reading are written by people I know and love, and I get curious about the other people who know and love them too. Sometimes I know most of the commenters ... many times I don't. Occasionally (in my wanderings) I stumble across someone who either delights or inspires me.
There are a few people I've read enough times I've added them to my Internet Favorites list. I've hesitated to add them to my blog "favorites" list -- what's the protocol on that anyways? I've always wondered if I should get permission, or at least know the individual personally ...?
Anyway, today during a very late lunch hour I followed just such a lazy, hazy path ... reading a few entries written by someone I don't know personally but I follow just because she has such interesting things to say. This time I got curious about her list of "people I follow" on the sidebar and I clicked on the first link there. I found myself on the page of a man who had just lost his best friend. His words touched me deeply, and he wrote so fetchingly I added him to my Favorites list on the spot (that's a fun phrase - where did that originate?). But the reason for this musing is that as touched as I was by his expression of loss (and the beautiful way he wrote), I was even more deeply touched by the 194 comments that followed ... 2/3 of them (it seemed) from people he didn't even know. I can say that because almost every one of them made mention of the fact that they were strangers to him, but felt compelled to offer their sympathy, their support, their hugs.
It made me emotional! It reminded me that this crazy "new" feature of 21st-century life (blogging) is valuable and worthwhile on so many levels - levels we maybe don't even realize. I love the idea that there is a community of complete strangers out there who don't even know each other but yet they do, or maybe they "meet" for the first time and immediately feel such a bond to the blogger that they are drawn to offer support, or commiseration, or kinship, or offer their own story, or just delight in the moment with the blogger.
It also reminds me that even if there are only a handful of people who follow my own occasional blog, what I have to say may be worthwhile to them and sometimes that can flow into the lives of people who know them, and to others who know those others and so on and on and on and on ... and who knows what may touch, uplift, assist, teach, inspire, chastise or brighten someone we don't even know ... yet. I'm really glad I stumbled upon this interesting man's blog. I'd link him here if I knew it was okay to do so without his permission ... is it?
There are a few people I've read enough times I've added them to my Internet Favorites list. I've hesitated to add them to my blog "favorites" list -- what's the protocol on that anyways? I've always wondered if I should get permission, or at least know the individual personally ...?
Anyway, today during a very late lunch hour I followed just such a lazy, hazy path ... reading a few entries written by someone I don't know personally but I follow just because she has such interesting things to say. This time I got curious about her list of "people I follow" on the sidebar and I clicked on the first link there. I found myself on the page of a man who had just lost his best friend. His words touched me deeply, and he wrote so fetchingly I added him to my Favorites list on the spot (that's a fun phrase - where did that originate?). But the reason for this musing is that as touched as I was by his expression of loss (and the beautiful way he wrote), I was even more deeply touched by the 194 comments that followed ... 2/3 of them (it seemed) from people he didn't even know. I can say that because almost every one of them made mention of the fact that they were strangers to him, but felt compelled to offer their sympathy, their support, their hugs.
It made me emotional! It reminded me that this crazy "new" feature of 21st-century life (blogging) is valuable and worthwhile on so many levels - levels we maybe don't even realize. I love the idea that there is a community of complete strangers out there who don't even know each other but yet they do, or maybe they "meet" for the first time and immediately feel such a bond to the blogger that they are drawn to offer support, or commiseration, or kinship, or offer their own story, or just delight in the moment with the blogger.
It also reminds me that even if there are only a handful of people who follow my own occasional blog, what I have to say may be worthwhile to them and sometimes that can flow into the lives of people who know them, and to others who know those others and so on and on and on and on ... and who knows what may touch, uplift, assist, teach, inspire, chastise or brighten someone we don't even know ... yet. I'm really glad I stumbled upon this interesting man's blog. I'd link him here if I knew it was okay to do so without his permission ... is it?
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