hi.
i think i need to look at the camera and say a word about comments.
i'd been having a hard time knowing what to do. i read and think about every single comment that comes in. and frankly, it's not like there are so many...but enough.
but then there were some that i wasn't so sure about. not so sure that i needed to give voice to in this, my own very personal space. so i would post most of the wonderful caring kind thoughtful ones. and leave those other ones out.
and then i thought i'd maybe just stop writing here at all.
but you know,
i can't really help myself.
and i do get so much encouragement and warmth from all the good words that come back to me here.
and so.
i decided what i'd do is leave comments open, but stop posting them.
and so that's what i've been doing. but maybe, since i didn't put anything on the sidebar, or something like that, it's not clear that i read them. or why i don't publish them.
i sort of feel that it's like you're writing to me. having a conversation with me. and yes, one of the BEST things about blogs sometimes is the community and sharing that comes from and within the comments. but maybe not here? i'm not really sharing much information, after all. it's all pretty personal.
so i read them all. and it makes me feel like i've heard from a friend. someone who heard what i had to say and had something to say about it. and that's good.
so there it is.
also, one very important piece to this all:
blogger-oh, blogger, blogger, blogger...-does not give me your e-mail!!! maybe you don't realize this? or it's some setting i don't have enabled or something? but unless i know your e-mail already, if you send me a comment and i would like to respond, i can't.
well, with some of you, i could follow your profile to your web page and hunt down your e-mail or comment on a post of yours.
but i have to be honest. i just don't have it in me. (and now i'm editing to say-oh!? does that sound awful? but you know what i mean, yes? i'm just trying to fit it all in. and i just have to make choices as we all do about how much time i can give to anything other than the essential... and on and on. i mean this all nicely.)
so please! please. if you send me a comment with your e-mail instead of your blogger profile? (and i really don't even know if it's a different sign in or whatever...)then there is an almost 100% better chance that i could, you know, send you a line and say:
hi.
thanks so much for being here. for your kind words. for taking the time to read what i have to say, to look at what i have to show you. for making me feel that i'm doing something worthwhile. not just for me, but for maybe just one somebody else. thanks.
or something like that. because that's what i feel.
so, hi.
thanks so much for being here.
more soon.
xo,
tt
