This Community Is Our Community
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Covering for Joe Haukes, this is Carolyn Manning:
Today it feels like I’m at an old-fashioned barn raising; as if I’m giving part of me to my neighbor.
When Joe asked me to do a guest post here, my first thought was “Wow!†Well, it was the first such request and it’s very special.
We talked about different topics, his favorite being our community. Why not? It’s as wonderful and as unique a community as we could ever hope to envelope us.
What we all have is an unusual bond; it’s more unusual because, contrary to traditional neighborhood or work alliances, we’ve managed to build something that revels in human feeling. It’s not superficial. Don’t tell me you don’t have that “wow!†feeling whenever a fellow blogger emails you or calls you or links to you. (Disclaimer: maybe my experience with offline communities hasn’t been good; maybe I’m prejudiced toward the blogging community, without giving full chance to others. No offence intended.)
Somewhere, in a comment, I wrote something to the effect that we, as bloggers, as the reporters of our time, are an historic group. We live together, no matter the miles apart Rosa Say, Talking Story (the distance between Pennsylvania and Hawaii); we understand each other, no matter the cultural or language barriers Klearchos Kapoutsis, Klearchos Guide to the Galaxy (the difference between Engish and Greek); we respect and love each other simply because we want to respect and love each other SOBCon07 (no difference at all).
Last week, Sharon Sarmiento Nomadic web workers follow in Hemingway’s footsteps at 901am, where she talked about the early 20th century days in Paris when Hemmingway, Fitzgerald, et al, were known as the ‘Lost Generation’. In reply, Robert Bruce, Knife Gun Pen, made mention that those of us working with words on blogs today are known as the ‘Mediocre Generation’.
Nothing against Robert Bruce (or the source of his comment), but the care and affection, the love and positive interaction we have with each other is anything but mediocre. We are the equivalent to the farmers helping to build the barns of their neighbors. The only difference is that our neighborhood has been expanded and we’re building internet careers.
My feeling about this community parallels that of most of you. And, you just wait. In a hundred years, they’ll call us historic.
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