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Sailing with "Kirkness"

October 24, 2007 by Liz

Happy Successful-Blog Birthday!

from Kirk M.

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Sail On…

(written with “Kirkness”)

Happy Two Years and many more!

A ship sails through the sea, the wind fills her sails, she heels to starboard just a bit, her bow strongly cutting through the sea, dolphins leaping and playing aside both forward quarters and riding in her bow wave. The weather is fair this day with a following wind and gently rolling seas, the fates treat this small entity plying the waters in such a vast ocean with kindness and compassion as if acknowledging a kindred spirit.

Not all days have been as such on her journey. There have been storms where the she was tossed and turned about, all her sails but a very few reefed in tight in hopes of maintaining a semblance of control, she learned how to weather these storms to sail on and out into the clear warm skies once again. And then there were times when the winds and the waves were full of mischief and pushed her off course into unknown waters where she had to learn to find her way back. And she learned how to trust her instincts when the clouds took the sun and the stars away from her sight. And she sailed on.

Over the years she learned how to work as one with the sea and the winds, learning the ways of the vast world around her through which she sails and to sincerely appreciate the times when seas and the skies turned a fair face upon her ongoing journey. And she sails on because she has learned and is learning still. And through all her experiences good and bad she welcomes all aboard her decks with joy, kindness and compassion to share for a moment in the journey that’s carried her so far and so long. Appreciating each individual for who they are and taking them to all the wonderful places she encounters on her travels and telling tales of the places she’s been. And when these visitors leave it is almost sure that they will come aboard once again to share in the journey with her.

May the weather be warm and fair and may the winds fill her sails as she makes her way to her next experience and beyond. May she sail a following sea for all her days as she continues to take us with her on her most Successful and Outstanding journey.

Sail on…

–Kirk M., Just-Thinkin’

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Thank you, Kirk! We’ll keep sailing, even when we list just a little. 🙂
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Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, Just-Thinkin, Kirk-M, Successful-Blog-Birthday

A Challenge, An Answer, and Everyone Gets Nicer

September 12, 2007 by Liz

What I First Said . . .

That brilliant idea guy, Kirk M, over at Just Thinkin’ has a brilliant idea. Go on over and read about it. Click this title to find the information.

Republish Your First Post a Friendly Challenge

I know I spent hours thinking about what my first post might say and cropping the photo.

Without further conversation, here are my first words to the blogosphere.

Image of Liz Strauss’ first post ever with link to orginal

Gosh, they still seem appropriate.

What did you first say when you got here?

–ME “Liz” Strauss

Filed Under: Motivation, Successful Blog Tagged With: bc, first-post, Just-Thinkin, Kirk-M, Liz-Strauss

Kirk M and Kent Newsome Are B.A.D. Bloggers!

July 22, 2007 by Liz

Hello, Hello! I’d Like You to Meet . . .

BAD Blogger Button

It’s a fine way to spend a Sunday visiting some B. A. D. Bloggers I know. Without hesitation, these are folks who are worth getting to know. I can say that because I did.

Have you met Kirk M?

I got a B.A.D. Blogger email from Kirk M.
He said, “If you’re still doing this, I would like to offer myself as a victim…er…I mean interviewee if you would be willing to risk your mental health by talking to me.” You should have seen me smile. The prospect was lovely. This fella who came around my blog with always a thoughtful remark, wanted to spend time talking to me.

It was a gracious man, Kirk M., who took a phone call from me. We talked about submarines, wheelchairs, dreams, blogging, the sort of people we are, the sort of people we meet, how our minds ramble from subject to subject. I told stories. He told some. We talked about claustrophobia, fear of heights, and that crack between the floor and the door in an elevator. It was a fun and relaxing conversation.

Kirk was in the room he once described in a comment.

Currently my back room is located in a corner of our library (we live in an old house so we set it up in an old fashioned way), with a rocker to my right with a forest of plants behind it in the window. Behind me is a old table made out of rock maple and a grandfather clock on the other side ticking away ready to tell me I need to get started for work (and more plants).

He was the guy I knew who typed those words. Authentic Kirk.

Kirk original email had also said, “Just think…then I could put a ‘I survived a call from Liz Strauss’ thingy in my sidebar!” He did. At least, I think he did.

Oh and, do you know Kent Newsome?

I met Kent for the first time when he suggested we might meet virtually. So on went out head phones and up went the conversation level. From his first words, I started thinking about and calling forward my memories of Texas just from hearing his voice. It was lovely.

I had recently discovered Kent’s blog. He had recently emptied his feeds and asked his readers to recommend new ones. Somehow my blog got in the mix. Somehow we ended up on a voice call.

Kent and I spent time discussing what made a great blog post. It was a conversation about conversation and blogging — how to leave the blog post open and unfinished, the way conversation happens. That led into writing and interacting with people. We talked about how long we’d been blogging. That led into a glance at our philosophies of life and our histories . . . isn’t that always the case?

We compared notes on everything from the web to songwriting to lawyering.

Kent told me a bit about his background in law. He’s songwriting lawyer who blogs — well not all at once, but it’s fun to say. Kent wove all three into the coversation about his blog and his blogging. He’s an integrated guy. He brings his skills out when he needs them.

Kent said he started blogging to see whether a guy who didn’t live in the Bay area or work in the tech industry could make his way into the conversation.

The answer is a resounding “yes.”

Kirk and Kent, you are B.A.D. Bloggers!

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Want to be a B.A.D. Blogger see the. . . a B.A.D. Blogger? page in the sidebar.

Filed Under: SOB Business, Successful Blog Tagged With: B.A.D. Blogger, bc, Just-Thinkin, Kent-Newsome, Kirk-M, Newsome.org

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