Thanks to all who read and tried to post yesterday. I'm still working on the issue (in-house tech support was very helpful and adorable!) but I have a couple things you might try if you'd like to post responses:
I logged in as someone else and was able to post....so I'm hoping these ideas work for a few of you. Otherwise, until we can fix it for all people, please do feel free to msg me or dialog on FB.
When you look at my post, near the bottom, by
there should be a pencil icon or a phrase that says '1 comment'. I was able to click on those
and a box popped up in which to compose. I wrote the word 'test' . Directly beneath that box it says, "comment as" with a drop down menu. I'm hoping one of those options works for your world. I chose Google and was directed to log into my Google account. Then, I hit the Publish button below it. Hoping that works for you. Though I have never blogged before, I think one of the most important pieces is the sharing of information/emotions/ideas/creativity. So I do need to hear from people!
Today I prepared a piece about the importance of messiness. But I decided to table that topic once I began watching the inauguration coverage. I feel passionately about being an American, about living here, about our political process. Yeah, of course it all makes me crazy sometimes. But we live here where we can shout about how crazy it makes us without fear of reprisal. That's a lovely thing.
There were two quotes I heard today which I wanted to share because they moved me so deeply. Senator Lamar Alexander of TN quoted author Alex Haley: "Find the good; embrace it." And one I saw on FB today attributed to Dr Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?"
As many people in the nation come together for a Day of Service, I'm thinking about finding good, embracing it, and turning those thoughts and feelings inside me into doing for others. Many of us feel stretched too thin; that life is just rushing by and we barely have time to do for ourselves and our families, let alone others. But perhaps we're just setting the bar too high. Next time you're in the store, maybe just pick up an extra pack of tissues or pencils for your child's or grandchild's or friend's child's classroom, bring your neighbor's paper from the driveway to their door, or - one of my fav things to do - pay for the person behind you in line for coffee at the drive through ( definitely stole that from somewhere/someone! Just say, "I want to pay for the drink order of the car behind me"). In our district, teachers have to purchase their own copy paper. Seriously. So I noticed the Office Depot ad for 10 reams of paper being on sale and picked one up for our school. But the kind of good we can put out in the world doesn't have to cost money - the free kind is amazing. Maybe thinking of BEING a Dr King overwhelms us and we end up doing nothing for too long. Maybe we can just be a deeper, more meaningful us and that will be more than enough.
Thinking of posting once or twice a week.
Thanks for reading y'all!
