Accentuating the Positive....

Okay. Just a few words about what occurred yesterday and then I have something to tell you about that will hopefully be encouraging and positive.

From now on, I make a commitment here. I will not use any comment for post fodder without permission from the commenter.

Claudia and I discussed a lot of this privately and everything is fine. I was mindless about the possible consequences and issued a private apology to her which she accepted.

In the process of all of this, Snoskred left a comment about more emphasis on positive news. I liked the idea and wrote her a note offlist, asking her if she might consider sponsoring a monthly blog carnival which would be dedicated to writing one post a month talking about some good news ~ internationally, nationally, in your community or even just something you heard about that someone did that brought some good feelings to you. As it happens, she can not do it right now but gave me permission to do it. The primary objective is to offset a lot of the negative stuff we have to deal with and hear in our everyday lives, especially when it comes to the news. There are no political or spiritual limitations on this. I don't care about anyone's politics or religion. I will link all posts; conservative, liberal or any religious persuasion, culture or lifestyle.

This is not for some merit you did though .. but something someone else did. All that would happen is that you send me a link to your post or someone else's and I will gather them here. I'm thinking the first of each month would be good but that's negotiable.

This is all negotiable and I'd like to hear from you about how you would like to see it happen ~ or if you would not like to see it happen.

So let me know your thoughts. Is this something you would find pleasant? Is it something you would like to participate in? I will respond to questions or concerns in the comments forum.

Let it rip! :)
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