APOLOGY

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Today’s post required a bit of research and I goofed part of it. I must make one very important apology.

I said: SAPPY AS A TREE posted an article entitled Dear Miss Alcott. I feel connected to that writer. Forgive the bad grammar, but she is me. Do you ever feel that way about some stranger you meet online? She is a much younger lady than I, but her interests and her ideas mirror many of mine.  She has another blog called WRITE OUT OF DARKNESS. Be sure to read that one too.  I would elaborate, but why should I steal your joy in discovering her?

This evening I found out that Sandi has the blog WHAT OFT WAS THOUGHT and not the WRITE OUT OF DARKNESS as I stated. That lovely blog is authored by Terri.  I cannot imagine why or how I mixed up those two, but it happened.

My apologies to both ladies.

BLOGGING 101: Commenting Boldly

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I am not politically motivated in any way.  I do love my homeland and often worry about the turn our government is taking, but I generally keep my opinions to myself.  My head is not in the sand. The nearest I have ever come to making a public statement about my political preferences was on MULIEBRAL VIEWPOINT last year and the only two comments were sage.

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BLOGGING 101: Facts versus Personal Interpretations

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Nobody questions the fact that 2 + 2 is 4.  One may argue about the grammar of the way it is stated, but we all know that “this combination” equals “this sum.”

Pure science is not made up of theories; it is a body of facts we can count on.  Even the grammar of English is made up of rules embedded in cement.  However, literature, writing and poetry are more ephemeral, more open to interpretation.  Writers love to play with language because they can make it say whatever they want it to say.

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MORE LESSONS LEARNED (by a slow learner)

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One post I read, (http://disperser.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/blogger-awards-2/) which talked about the blogging awards, made a lot of sense to me.  See if it clicks with you.

If I nominate 15 blogs, and each of those nominate 15 more, and so on, here is the progression:

15 . . . . . . 225 . . . . . . 3,375 . . . . . . 50,625 . . . . . . 759,375 (!) . . . . . . 11,390,625 (!!)

Plus, you have to divulge seven (7) things about yourself.  FaceBook has those same kind of things, and I always thought it’s just another way for people trying to break your password to get useful information from you.  Basically, you are willingly giving away your identity.

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WHY BLOG?

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In more recent years, I have been working with women who want to break out of the mold–do more than they have done before and be more valuable to their families and their community.  Most of the ones I worked with were shy for good reason.  They lacked the ability to do things others valued.  Since this project began, quite a few have managed to move forward on their own.

Initially my work focused on women who wanted to gain a skill that they could use to bring in income.  A few who needed something more basic than job training wanted to learn to read and write.  Later I set up after school tutoring sessions for children and some women who needed specific training in English as a second language.  I usually handled all the English classes while others taught different classes.

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