Yesterday was a good day. We , that is: you , me, your friends, your colleagues, over 12,700 bloggers worldwide and the 13.4+ million readers (million!) who put their eyeballs on those articles, were responsible for the success of Blog Action Day . This literally could not have happened without you . Bravo.
From comments and e-mails I was copied on, I know many of you forwarded yesterday's post along to others. (Thanks for copying me.) That act alone, further spread the news.
In the cascade that followed in our own little part of the blogosphere, my/our hope was that a significant percentage of visitors learned something new about the issue of poverty that they didn't know the day before. We hope many were spurred to action in some form. Either by making a donation, raising funds, or committing to research the issue a little further and perhaps contribute their time locally as a volunteer.
Of course, while all of the stuff mentioned above was playing out here, it was also being repeated on at least 12,700 other sites around the world. That's a virus, but the good kind .
But, you know what? The best part for me about the whole event was what it did for me...
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You see, when I write an article--yesterday's, today's, it doesn't matter--when I write any blog article, I go inward. That is, I get annoyingly lost in an internal proces of knowledge acquisition-comprehension-analysis-synthesis. In the nook-and-crannies of all that is a recurring cycle of reflection . In there somewhere, in that cycle of reflection, is where the external stuff--the stuff that touches me through knowledge acquisition, comprehension, and so forth--becomes internalized. It becomes a part of me and changes the goggles through which I view the world.
I don't think this is all unique to me; it probably plays out with many folks who write, whether you're a blogger, a journalist, or a student. I think, to some degree, what we write--the theories we espouse and the positions we take--becomes a part of us.
At the end of the day, I suppose that's why I write. It helps me reflect on many of the things in the external world that I'm normally blind to, though they may be things I see every day.
As a closing thought, before you close this window and continue on down the road to the next web site, click here and browse the 88 Ways to DO Something About Poverty Right Now . (Be open to suggestion.)
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