Comments on: Reaching out http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/ Your house shall not be an anchor but a mast - Khalil Gibran Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:42:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: New Comm Biz » Give more value than you receive and measure it. http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-40556 New Comm Biz » Give more value than you receive and measure it. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:41:27 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-40556 [...] Reaching out (anchormast.com) tweetmeme_url = 'http://www.newcommbiz.com/give-more-value-than-you-receive-and-measure-it/';tweetmeme_source = 'tacanderson'; If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [...] [...] Reaching out (anchormast.com) tweetmeme_url = ‘http://www.newcommbiz.com/give-more-value-than-you-receive-and-measure-it/’;tweetmeme_source = ‘tacanderson’; If you enjoyed this post, make sure you subscribe to my RSS feed! [...]

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-24672 Tess Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:56:24 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-24672 SS, thank you so much. I often think there are bad things also about our instantaneous connections - for example I wonder whether our economical problems have been fanned by global press speculation causing panic, although I'm not knowledgeable enough to be sure. But the sort of examples you mention can strengthen our compassion for others and give us the ability to help if we can by way of donations etc. SS, thank you so much. I often think there are bad things also about our instantaneous connections – for example I wonder whether our economical problems have been fanned by global press speculation causing panic, although I’m not knowledgeable enough to be sure. But the sort of examples you mention can strengthen our compassion for others and give us the ability to help if we can by way of donations etc.

]]> By: Sunrise Sister http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-24665 Sunrise Sister Mon, 23 Feb 2009 06:51:09 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-24665 "The town square image" and quote just beautiful and so right on with your comments. The internet does bring us all together quickly whether we like it or not......I mean we can tune out if we wish. The internet I believe has brought a new depth of wonder to my spiritual life, to my daily life - which is my spiritual life....I guess I should say a new depth to the activities I engage in - wow, you've caught me all tongue-tied here. At any rate, I feel closer to my world-wide neighbors, I am saddened and troubled by news of a mine-collapse in China, a tourist bus crash, the deaths in the deadly Australian fires, the horror of my nation's fires in CA where the death toll has been low but the danger of death is imminent when young men and women are fighting the fires. The internet highlights our world's weaknesses and with some hope I believe it could strengthen the world as well. You got me goin' here - your posts are truly inspirational. Thanks Tess. xoxo “The town square image” and quote just beautiful and so right on with your comments. The internet does bring us all together quickly whether we like it or not……I mean we can tune out if we wish. The internet I believe has brought a new depth of wonder to my spiritual life, to my daily life – which is my spiritual life….I guess I should say a new depth to the activities I engage in – wow, you’ve caught me all tongue-tied here. At any rate, I feel closer to my world-wide neighbors, I am saddened and troubled by news of a mine-collapse in China, a tourist bus crash, the deaths in the deadly Australian fires, the horror of my nation’s fires in CA where the death toll has been low but the danger of death is imminent when young men and women are fighting the fires. The internet highlights our world’s weaknesses and with some hope I believe it could strengthen the world as well. You got me goin’ here – your posts are truly inspirational. Thanks Tess.

xoxo

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-24369 Tess Mon, 16 Feb 2009 15:06:20 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-24369 Thanks for your lovely comments, Barbara Anne, Christine and Molly. Thanks for your lovely comments, Barbara Anne, Christine and Molly.

]]> By: molly http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-24367 molly Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:44:08 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-24367 Great post! Great post!

]]> By: Abbey of the Arts http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-23868 Abbey of the Arts Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:44:33 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-23868 Tess, great post and such a lovely window into this virtual community. How wonderful our town square can reach so far and wide and include so many in on the powerful conversation if they so choose. Tess, great post and such a lovely window into this virtual community. How wonderful our town square can reach so far and wide and include so many in on the powerful conversation if they so choose.

]]> By: Barbara Anne http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-23865 Barbara Anne Wed, 11 Feb 2009 15:13:21 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-23865 Hi Tess, Tho geographically we are distant, heart to heart we are close! Glad to be in the square with you and these delightful others. I'm reminded of the motto of the American Field Service, an organization who brought 3 exchange students to my high school (long ago and far away). These teens from Australia, the Philippines, and Switzerland were my first friends from overseas. The AFS motto: "Walk together, talk together, o ye peoples of the world. Then, and only then, will there be peace." Maybe the internet is one important pathway to peace? I hope so! Hi Tess, Tho geographically we are distant, heart to heart we are close! Glad to be in the square with you and these delightful others.

I’m reminded of the motto of the American Field Service, an organization who brought 3 exchange students to my high school (long ago and far away). These teens from Australia, the Philippines, and Switzerland were my first friends from overseas. The AFS motto:
“Walk together, talk together, o ye peoples of the world. Then, and only then, will there be peace.”

Maybe the internet is one important pathway to peace? I hope so!

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-23668 Tess Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:19:56 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-23668 kigen, thank you so much for your comment and for introducing me to the richness of your website. This poem is beautiful. I love the rhythm of it, the way the words flow into one another. kigen, thank you so much for your comment and for introducing me to the richness of your website. This poem is beautiful. I love the rhythm of it, the way the words flow into one another.

]]> By: kigen http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-23664 kigen Mon, 09 Feb 2009 17:23:35 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-23664 Hi Tess, I have a website on Emily Dickinson which focuses on 32 of her nature-mystic poems, each on its own page -— and by far the poem that gets the most hits (via Google) is not the most "social" one, but rather her "<b><a href="http://earlywomenmasters.net/dickinson/ed_1695/" title="Emily Dickinson, There is a Solitude of Space">Solitude of Space</a></b>" -— and I think that is good, because the best way to love others and to care about the world, truly is to know Thyself: There is a solitude of space A solitude of sea A solitude of death, but these Society shall be Compared with that profounder site That polar privacy A soul admitted to itself — Finite infinity. ~ Emily Dickinson ___ kigen Hi Tess,
I have a website on Emily Dickinson which focuses on 32 of her nature-mystic poems, each on its own page -— and by far the poem that gets the most hits (via Google) is not the most “social” one, but rather her “Solitude of Space” -— and I think that is good, because the best way to love others and to care about the world, truly is to know Thyself:

There is a solitude of space
A solitude of sea
A solitude of death, but these
Society shall be
Compared with that profounder site
That polar privacy
A soul admitted to itself —
Finite infinity.

~ Emily Dickinson
___
kigen

]]> By: Tess http://www.anchormast.com/2009/02/08/reaching-out/comment-page-1/#comment-23633 Tess Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:02:10 +0000 http://www.anchormast.com/?p=1103#comment-23633 @Lucy: I'm so glad you're around on the town square. Twitter is really weird and a bit scary to start off with, but lots of people refer to it as 'hanging round the water cooler', or as we would say in Britain 'having a tea break'. Jump into the stream of conversation then jump back again, don't try to follow everything or catch up with what happened while you were away. @Sue: 1.5 hours' drive is horribly close. It must be a bit like knowing your old school or something has been demolished but still not believing it. I'm very glad you're OK. @Elaine: Thank you very much, what a great web of connections we have. @Lucy: I’m so glad you’re around on the town square. Twitter is really weird and a bit scary to start off with, but lots of people refer to it as ‘hanging round the water cooler’, or as we would say in Britain ‘having a tea break’. Jump into the stream of conversation then jump back again, don’t try to follow everything or catch up with what happened while you were away.
@Sue: 1.5 hours’ drive is horribly close. It must be a bit like knowing your old school or something has been demolished but still not believing it. I’m very glad you’re OK.
@Elaine: Thank you very much, what a great web of connections we have.

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