Happy Blogoversary!

It really doesn’t seem like a year I started blogging….sometimes it feels much longer and other times it seems like only a couple of months since I began, but today I actually celebrate 1 full year of blogging!

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Blogging wouldn’t be anywhere near as enjoyable, if I didn’t have the wonderful and diverse network of blog-buddies I’ve come to know over this past year, so I’d like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for making my experience of blogging so rewarding and enjoyable.

I consider my blogging to be an extension of my self expression, my personal domain, my safe-place, somewhere to express my thoughts and feelings and to share with others some of the things that I find interesting, funny or annoying.

Thanks for sharing with me your thoughts and opinions in the comment box (even if they do differ from mine) and via email/Facebook etc…. and most of all thank you for your friendship, support and encouragement. It is very much appreciated. And that’s not just words.

I especially enjoy the stuff that goes on behind the scenes of the blog, the personal contact, letters, emails etc. Much of it has been facilitated via this little blog of mine where we first *met* and for that I am especially grateful.

Thanks too for sharing yourselves with me, through personal contact, letters, emails and of course, your own beautiful blogs. It gives me a lot of pleasure to read about your own lives and experiences, and isn’t it just so much fun watching each others kids grow (albeit online!) and stuff and reading each others blogs for so long that you come to know one another in a really personal way….even though some of us are practically at opposite ends of the earth?

I find it fascinating.

It fascinates me that after 12 months, so many people still bother to visit this little corner of cyberspace and actually care about what is going on in mine and my family’s life etc, and that you are interested in my thoughts and creativity and stuff. This is what makes blogging so rewarding to me.

The bottom line is that strangers come to care about one another in this thing called cyberspace…and that through frequent and sometimes even intermittent contact, the seeds of friendship are well and truly sown.

I believe social interaction has been totally redefined by blogging.

Mine certainly has.

It’s real and tangible.

You’re real.

I’m real.

The words I write.

The words you read.

The words you write.

The words I read.

We connect

on some level or other.

And I dare to call that friendship.

Over the year we have shared one anothers personal dilemmas and agonies, joys and blessings, we’ve shared about marriages, births, marriage breakdowns, spousal deaths, miscarriages, stillbirths, single parenting struggles, endeavours to live continent and chaste lives etc…all of this is intimately personal stuff we share.

Deeply personal stuff. Real Rap.

And we share it yes as a form of self expression and of trying to make some sense of things, but also because we actually do care about one another and because we choose to reach out to one another both in our times of need, and in our desire to befriend and express compassion to our fellow bloggers.

I think that is pretty fantastic.

So thank you for being there for this past year and I pray that I can be half as encouraging, supportive, understanding and appreciative of all of you, as you have been and continue to be, to me.

Here’s to another year!