Wednesday, June 01, 2011

My Virtual Love Letter

I could not have imagined a drift or even catching a tsunamic (yes I made a new word) wave into this community called Bloggers.  Who knew so many people wanted to put their thoughts into words and share those thoughts with strangers?  Each of my bloggers has at least one or two (if not hundreds) of lightning strokes of genius as they share deeply personal thoughts and parts of their recent days or years long ago and mold them carefully into phrases that reflect the humanity of man and in some cases true poetry.  They share their lunches, decorating efforts, cleaning processes, broken marriages, conversations with crazy folks and their unique as well as common thoughts.  While held up to the light individually, they may not have much substance, but when woven into the light of years of blogging they are the stitches of a tapestry of a unique and complicated human life.  They are the snare of the jazz piece.  They are the rare spice in the soup of mankind.  They are the laugh of that old joke told in an unusual light. 

If we had met at a wine or ice cream bar our outspoken ideas may have halted the minute we found our differences.  But with blogging we slowly learn that we are all so VERY much alike in spite of our politics, religious beliefs, sexual preferences, and taste in cooking.  My bloggers are patient with me.  They chuckle at my desire to really get their opinion on my photographs...a free lesson from the audience...and they sigh at my own efforts to try to write prose or poetry, but do not discourage me.  They cannot believe that I value honesty (with a spoonful of sugar) above all else.

That is the key.  NEVER discourage someone from trying to express their opinion but be willing to also express an opinion gently in a different light.  This world is changing at impossible speeds these days and we barely have time to sift the false from the true.  One thing I think I have learned is that truth is rarely exciting or shiny like a diamond (or winks at you).  Truth is gray and solid like a bridge to the future,  Truth always is in the distant light, and if we disagree, it is because we have not changed our rose colored glasses, quite yet.  

16 comments:

  1. AMEN. There are always more than two roads to Rome and we should be willing to attempt to see others points of view.

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  2. I couldn't have said it better myself....really, I couldn't....

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  3. Thank you and well done.

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  4. great post! it touched me so i quoted you in my blog. i hope that's okay.

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  5. I hear that! I never could've imagined how this would be for me starting out ober 6 years ago- How much it;s become part of my life I won't willingly give up! The learning about others n community you come to belong to0
    Who would've guessed it would be this nifty?

    Some allow for differences n are more tolerant than others... But all bloggers are here to interact- our common ground.

    TG for the tech age we live in- without it I'd be on my own!

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  6. I so enjoy the blogging community! And as you have said, it IS the spice in the soup! It has enriched my life, these virtual friends, and I could never imagine that this would occur when I started my blog oh so many years ago!
    The people!!!! My friends!!! They share their world and they peek into mine! I love it!!
    Great post!
    Hugs
    SueAnn

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  7. Oh yes, what would I do without my daily sharing - for family far and near. But the special prize is all the new online friends I have made.
    Tabor, you were one of the first to greet me a couple of years ago :)
    Thank you..

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  8. Years ago I wrote an essay on blogging that I read on our local Public Radio station. I can see this being developed into such a piece and I think blogging definitely needs a boost of re-interest!

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  9. Well said. Thank you for being you.
    You might find this post interesting
    http://blog.cyberquill.com/to-live-and-let-live/

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  10. What's that old saw that one makes more friends with sugar than with vinegar? I must admit that I like your presence and your opinions in my life. I already have substance, but you add richness.

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  11. You're so right, Tabor, and what a blessing it is for all of us to know we have an honest, who are often prepared to comment and challenge and help us feel better. Every Blessing

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  12. You always encourage me to write, Tabor. You just feel many of us. :)

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  13. Sorry, dear Tabor, but I don't think that truth is gray and boring. I do think truth is shiny and special.

    If I value you i speak the truth (with a spoonful of sugar), if I don't, I tell you what you want to hear and move on quickly. I like people for their strength of character, for their opinions (even if they don't coincide with mine) and for their honesty.

    Blogging is wonderful - we can say things we might not say to somebody we have to meet in real life; stupid manners might get in the way.

    I have found blogging cathartic at times and if there is somebody who can't bear that, tough tittie.
    We can choose whose waffle we read.

    I like yours.

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  14. Thanks, Tabor!! I should have thought to check the urban dictionary too.

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  15. Oh, how I love this post!!
    I am going to go and read it again.
    : )

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  16. I wonder how many years have past since I encountered with you in this broad internet world. Despite of different nationalities and although we haven't met face to face, you know and understand me a lot, and I hope I understand you as well. It is so nice to meet someone very nice by chance. That's why I keep blogging, I guess...

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