en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/295722 Comments by crossmage http://reinventingerica.com/?p=1366#IDComment56197397 Congratulations on discovering some of that human and positive discontent as you consider your writing. I always promise my internal editor a chance to comment on my writing, but only after I get it finished. In the meantime, I keep reminding myself that the part of me that thinks i can do better is why anything I write this year is probably better than what I wrote last year. First, though, is to finish the project's first draft..... Keep on plugging away and do not worry about how hard it is - Heinlein once speculated hat only 25% of the people who are motivated to write a book will finish the first draft. Keep going. You can do this. Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:58:49 +0000 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=1366#IDComment56197397 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=1259#IDComment52437164 What fun.... My favorite part was watching the hand gestures that were out of frame in the camera but visible in your background reflection. Thanks for the grin and keep having fun. As a certain cat once said, "It's fun to have fun, but you have to know how." Thanks for showing that you do know. Sun, 17 Jan 2010 17:16:35 +0000 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=1259#IDComment52437164 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21359239 Thank you so much! Keep following your passion - it's the secret of how to avoid working for a living. When you do what you love it can become playing for a living instead! Will you be at the tweetup at @CoffeeGroundz on the 23rd? Wed, 13 May 2009 04:03:37 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21359239 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21359136 One of the twitter events of Hurricane Ike that i really remember was when we all started using our zi codes as hastags so we could tell were the power outages and restorations were, as well as store openings and generators. Someone with family in my neighborhood found my zip code through my hastag and asked me to check on their family so they could reach out and connect with their loved ones. Later I searched for my zip code to see who else had gone through Ike in my neighborhood and followed them on twitter - getting to know my neighbors that much more closely! I'd have to say the same to you, Christine, about how getting to know you. I'm so glad we get to know each other through these new mediums! Wed, 13 May 2009 04:00:25 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21359136 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358614 So let me take a moment to welcome the NPR listeners and readers out there that have been linking in. Welcome to mere wisdom! And thank you Elaine for passing the word along. You are one of the people with whom I connect through social media - and one of the people that makes my life richer as a result. Thanks! How long have you been a NPR listener and reader o the site? Wed, 13 May 2009 03:47:00 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358614 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358491 Considering that it was your invitation in '07 to join twitter that finally convinced me to join myself, I think you are right. I'm not sure if it's the number of followers that changes one experience of twitter as much as it is the social circle that one knows on twitter. That's where your Flickr group serving as a already-known social circle let me experience twiotter and the tweets of people that i already cared about... And i can't help but wonder if that wasn't why I stuck. What made you stick as a twitter user? Wed, 13 May 2009 03:43:35 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358491 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358331 Thank you so much for the kind words and for the share on facebook! That really means a lot to me that you thought (think) so highly of it. Wed, 13 May 2009 03:39:33 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment21358331 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=586#IDComment20887231 I thought some of us became libertarians to get away mediocrity. But I'd be interested in joining Massed Libertarians of Microblogging. ;-) Wed, 6 May 2009 15:09:34 +0000 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=586#IDComment20887231 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=586#IDComment20887135 There's the name, and then there's the groundswell.... Just because you influence one, does not mean you influence the other. Wed, 6 May 2009 15:07:20 +0000 http://reinventingerica.com/?p=586#IDComment20887135 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment20716121 Hi Angela! Seeing your comment really made my day. None of us are alone, we all are connected to one another in a beautiful web - or so I believe. Thank you for all the ways the connection with you enriches my life, my friend. Tue, 5 May 2009 03:10:55 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/04/twitter-improves-lives/#IDComment20716121 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/self-injury/#IDComment20176039 I will tell her for you. :-) Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:03:15 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/self-injury/#IDComment20176039 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/self-injury/#IDComment20176005 Thank you for the kind words. I wrote this post - and the other one on 10 Tips for Parenting through self Injury - just for parents such as yourself. It is a frightening thing to go through, and if my story and Victoria's can help in any way to get you through this more easily, then I feel I was successful in reaching out. May you be gentle with yourself and with others as you help your daughter get through this. Wed, 29 Apr 2009 19:02:20 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/self-injury/#IDComment20176005 http://frogforpeace.com/childlike-wonder/ #IDComment18060290 I'd leave a longer comment, but I need to first go fly a kite.... Fri, 3 Apr 2009 04:19:41 +0000 http://frogforpeace.com/childlike-wonder/ #IDComment18060290 http://frogforpeace.com/be-still/ #IDComment17121721 Cat's in the Cradle has been around long enough for me to have started listening to it when I could identify with the youngest child - as i would listen to the song while my father was out working all night again. And in time, I got to be the man with the kids having the flu and unable to visit my father. Now my father is gone and my kids are near grown.... So when do we sit with God and try to have some quality time with him instead of vague, half-mumbled words as we fall asleep or are about to chow down? I was inspired by this enough to just take a few minutes to close my eyes and become still and try to sit in the presense of God - not talking, just chilling, and letting who he is cane who I am. And of course I promptly started falling asleep. The mental muscles or capabilities for that sort of ability seem atrophied from lack of use. I feel like I will have to work and build up endurance to accomplish this. Tue, 17 Mar 2009 05:17:30 +0000 http://frogforpeace.com/be-still/ #IDComment17121721 http://www.frogstr.com/intensedebate-lets-comment#IDComment16177921 I run IntenseDebate on one blog, but my new one doesn't have it - and it's likely to stay that way. I really like IntenseDebate, but tweetbacks are more important to me than pingbacks, and there are no solutions for displaying tweetbacks (that I have found) for IntenseDebate. Very nice product and some great capabilities, but I'm now waiting on their development and creativity instead of getting to flex my own. Hopefully, they will resolve this quickly. I do enjoy the conversation it facilitates.... Wed, 4 Mar 2009 20:02:43 +0000 http://www.frogstr.com/intensedebate-lets-comment#IDComment16177921 http://merewisdom.org/2009/02/love-and-the-vulnerable-heart/#IDComment16093924 Your description of slowly opening and becoming more vulnerable makes me think of a rose blooming. That's cool, because I wasn't sure my rose photo fit the post or not. Tue, 3 Mar 2009 04:22:48 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/02/love-and-the-vulnerable-heart/#IDComment16093924 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/build-a-nonprofits-technology-assets-from-the-ground-up-part-1-of-4#IDComment14801452 What a great article and something all technologists should remember - tech selection is not where the thinking should start. I volunteer at the local Net2 events in getting my fellow technogeeks to help out nonprofits, and see in here a great tool for both camps. I would like to use this in an upcoming presentation on how we volunteer technogeeks and better meet the needs of the nonprofits that need our help in changing the world. Will you address the blog-as-website approach for meeting the foundational level above networking with an architecture that can extend to the top - or are you separating the blog/basecamp from the outposts like flickr and twitter at the top? (Such loose definitions of social media, you know) Fri, 6 Feb 2009 16:08:55 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/build-a-nonprofits-technology-assets-from-the-ground-up-part-1-of-4#IDComment14801452 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903898 Grateful for work? I can see that - the need to feel like i am being useful towards some goal or direction. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:19:31 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903898 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903885 Beautiful. Thank you. It's a world of light and shadow, and we get to choose which aspec we will focus on. Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:18:35 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903885 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903870 Thank you so much for sharing your gratitude blog link. Don't worry at the pace of entries - i am a firm believer in the slow blogging manifesto. :-0 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 04:16:57 +0000 http://merewisdom.org/2009/01/when-gratitude-flows/#IDComment13903870