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Excuse me,
but from now on I'd like to be refferred to as "Your one-hundred and thirty-fifth-ness".
posted by
majroj
on August 15, 2005 at 12:26 PM
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Hiya, May
catching up on reading. Not much to say on this one.
posted by
Joe_Love
on August 14, 2005 at 6:15 PM
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kindness does repay itself
posted by
Vanidad
on August 12, 2005 at 5:50 PM
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Do you realize that you are the #8 top blogger????
Yea for you!
posted by
buttsup
on August 12, 2005 at 1:06 PM
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MayB,
I am a firm believer that what goes around, comes around. Good things as well as the bad. Life becomes meaningless if we don't try to help others and whether we know it or not, we're helping ourselves when we help others.
posted by
word.smith
on August 12, 2005 at 12:07 PM
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That's great MayB!
And..I'll have to check out the one-liner idea! I'm about 2/3 through a book...I do have a notebook with one-liners but I'm dying to know what you've said about that....off to find it now...
posted by
ginnieb
on August 12, 2005 at 8:07 AM
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MayB--
kindness and being willing to help others builds good karma and attracts those same kinds of people to us via the like-attracts-like principle.
posted by
Julia.
on August 12, 2005 at 7:03 AM
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NCWriter, it's true. I think it was being among so many writers in last week which made me see it more clearly than before. And here too, there are some encouraging and inspiring colleagues.
I also had to file a complicated piece to an editor yesterday and he was kind. He polished it up and told me he could see all the work that I'd had to put in. Small acknowledgements make all the difference
posted by
Azur
on August 12, 2005 at 6:44 AM
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Do let me know if the carp are running dave cryer.
posted by
Azur
on August 12, 2005 at 6:40 AM
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And like attracts like...
You're a good person helping a good person, so a good person, will soon help you. Isn't being a writer so much better when you surround yourself with other writers like yourself? The ones who applaud their peers as opposed to being in competition with them. Great read MayB.
posted by
NCwriter
on August 12, 2005 at 6:39 AM
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O me ga-d! Surely not. That wouldn't alpha cause me trouble and make me psi. I beta start learning it.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 12, 2005 at 6:36 AM
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as always, good advice to heed
posted by
SomeoneElse
on August 12, 2005 at 6:03 AM
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Occasionally it only works in the Greek alphabet Dave Cryer
posted by
Azur
on August 12, 2005 at 6:02 AM
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Are you sure Dave Cryer? I just read about your frilly white knickers
posted by
Azur
on August 12, 2005 at 5:59 AM
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davec we could make you our honoury woman if you like .xxx
posted by
mcbreeze
on August 12, 2005 at 5:57 AM
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mayb that`s a good point yep most r lol.
posted by
mcbreeze
on August 12, 2005 at 5:56 AM
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I'm not a woman. Not last time I checked.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 12, 2005 at 5:55 AM
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I also think it goes round in a circle: you help a, a helps b, b helps c, c helps d, and then one day, someone you've never met, z helps you.
And I think it goes in spirals = same as before only z passes it onto the next generation.
Same with lifts you got when hitchhiking and lifts you paid back when you got a car.
Same as a door opened for someone, or a car let out of a junction. Small kindnesses go a long, long way. In fact, they go on for ever.
posted by
_dave_says_ack_
on August 12, 2005 at 5:54 AM
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and all are women mcbreeze.
posted by
Azur
on August 12, 2005 at 5:52 AM
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mayb
it is amazing how when you seem to be stuck amazing people seem to appear from nowhere and guide you through. xxx
posted by
mcbreeze
on August 12, 2005 at 5:48 AM
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