Let me tell you about a blogger.
She's brilliant and funny. She makes the rest of us look like slackers. She's working on her PhD, teaching, running a freelance translating and writing business out of her home, and she's raising four children, all under the age of four. Do you know who I'm talking about? Many of you probably do. For those of you who don't, it's cdnkaro at four under 4 (plus two). On top of her workload of epic proportions, she still finds the strength to stay positive and witty, and what impresses me most is that she also still finds the time to reach out to others with incredibly thoughtful gestures: surprise flowers for another blogger going through a rough patch, a stamp book for a blogger's little brother, endless and regular sweet comments on any number of blogs, guest posts, and on and on.
Our blog friend has been a little bit overwhelmed lately and it's time for us to give her back a tiny bit of what she gives to so many. Jane in her Infinite Wisdom and I had an idea. We are going to mob her with comments. She just posted for the first time in a month yesterday with a tiny update on things. Click on over and leave her some love, then encourage others to do the same. Even if you haven't read her blog before, you don't have to know her to know what it feels like to be completely buried in life.
This is one of the wonderful things about the immediacy and far reach of blogging. Within a matter of minutes, I can sit in my home in Seattle and encourage you at your computer in __________ and you can send some goodwill to a dear heart in Canada. Pretty sweet, no?
Let's fill her post up with so many comments and well wishes that it boggles the mind.
Thank you and good days to all!
She's brilliant and funny. She makes the rest of us look like slackers. She's working on her PhD, teaching, running a freelance translating and writing business out of her home, and she's raising four children, all under the age of four. Do you know who I'm talking about? Many of you probably do. For those of you who don't, it's cdnkaro at four under 4 (plus two). On top of her workload of epic proportions, she still finds the strength to stay positive and witty, and what impresses me most is that she also still finds the time to reach out to others with incredibly thoughtful gestures: surprise flowers for another blogger going through a rough patch, a stamp book for a blogger's little brother, endless and regular sweet comments on any number of blogs, guest posts, and on and on.
Our blog friend has been a little bit overwhelmed lately and it's time for us to give her back a tiny bit of what she gives to so many. Jane in her Infinite Wisdom and I had an idea. We are going to mob her with comments. She just posted for the first time in a month yesterday with a tiny update on things. Click on over and leave her some love, then encourage others to do the same. Even if you haven't read her blog before, you don't have to know her to know what it feels like to be completely buried in life.
This is one of the wonderful things about the immediacy and far reach of blogging. Within a matter of minutes, I can sit in my home in Seattle and encourage you at your computer in __________ and you can send some goodwill to a dear heart in Canada. Pretty sweet, no?
Let's fill her post up with so many comments and well wishes that it boggles the mind.
Thank you and good days to all!
Thanks for sharing this, so glad I have discovered a new blog to follow :-D
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing it, too!
DeleteI've the same thoughts as Sleepy Joe!
ReplyDeleteWelcome! And thank you for playing along with us!
DeleteYAY! Comment Mobbing! (this is really a lot of fun)
ReplyDeleteI love your reaction categories, by the way. I hooted. Out loud.
This is so much fun!
DeleteI'm also quite pleased to make you hoot. Sometimes I tell my husband things like "Wow! That post got 2 Tooties and a Jo!"
::chanting:: Mob! Mob! Mob!
ReplyDeleteMob! Mob! Mob!
DeleteSweethearts: cdnkaro, check. Jane, check. And you, check. :O)
ReplyDeleteAnd Word Nerd: check!
DeleteDone, and forgive me that I'm borrowing your "Mission" motive to pass on the good vibes? http://kickingcorners.blogspot.com/2012/04/mission-totally-possible.html
ReplyDeletePreeety sure I meant 'motif'? What is this English language?
DeleteHa! Super! Yay for embarrassing typos and double-yay for the kindness of strangers. You're a peach.
DeleteCredit goes to Sleepy Joe -- she set a good example in her post today, so I came over to see what y'all were up to. Yay for you and Jane starting such a great thing :)
DeleteWe're always up to something.
DeleteYou are so kind to do this for a fellow blogger.
ReplyDeleteThank you. And thank you for stopping by!
DeleteThis worked out wonderfully. Thanks for gettin' somethin' started. ;)
ReplyDeleteThanks for helping out. It was such great fun.
DeleteSuper sweet idea, Lou.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I can be less prickly. It's amazing, I know.
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