I’m just writing to say thanks

August 19, 2007 · by Joanna Paterson · in

Dear Liz

I’m just writing to say thanks.  Thanks for linking your writing challenge back to my name.  I’m blushing each time I see it, but I know better than to protest your decisions:-)  I also know you don’t want paid back for gifts you give freely – because it’s just in your nature to give.

But that doesn’t mean I can’t say thanks.

Thanks for teaching us to write in a compelling, conversational style.  But more than that thanks for modelling that conversation, that engagement, that friendliness in action in a place where you’re only a stranger once.

Thanks for answering every single person who leaves a comment on your blog.  Oh and not just answering but answering with our names, with some reflection on what we’ve said, maybe what’s been happening at our own sites, with friendship, and humour and style.

Thanks for making us smile even when the smilies get turned off :-)

Thanks for going out like a bloodhound to find the blogs that are extending the conversation.  Not for  your own benefit but so you can encourage, highlight, showcase those who you think deserve it.

Thanks for being open about your own doubts, challenging us (quietly) to question our own integrity too.

Thanks for making the conversations in your comment box the highlight of your links post.

Just thanks.  Really, sincerely.

Thanks.

Joanna