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Sunday, June 29, 2008 Familybits

alex the girl is the very first weblog I ever saw, although I had no idea that that was what it was called. I didn’t use the word “blog” then. I started reading about her days, and kept coming back. I couldn’t tell which was more appealing: her designs, drawings, prose, or site design.

I thought, I want one of those. I want to be…not Alex, but a girl. You know what I mean.

I just went back after many years’ absence to discover to my surprise and delight that she is still there, still crafty, still prosey, still pretty. She’s still a girl.

She keeps changing her sites around, and can’t keep it down to just one site. Sounds familiar!

Here’s an elegant thought broken down into many, bit-sized elements. I suggest you read it and do some if not all of what she describes. I’m logging off after this to do some of those things myself.

Please go out there and do. Live. Don’t be the same as yesterday. Don’t live vicariously online. Don’t use language that has no meaning or talk ideas you don’t really live. Don’t hide. Don’t copy others or live their ideas or life. Don’t fear doing your thing. Don’t fear doing. Instead of reading a decorating magazine, paint that room. Instead of thinking of baking, do up a cake. Run, walk, bike. Put that self help book down and pick up yourself.

Let go of the snark, your worries, your anger and fear and give into possibility, action, joy and life. Do. Do some more. Stop thinking about you. Stop blogging about just you and your kid and your pet. There’s a world out there to connect to, really connect to. Being of use is more important than being popular. Think about the lady down the street, the person at the drive through, the man fallen in the street, about politics, the environment, healthcare, another country and then do something about it. Never stop at thinking. read more…