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waggypolly
7/1/2008 3:07 am
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10/17/2008 12:11 am
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Blogville used to be a tiny little village where everyone loved each other.
When I first came to live here it was but two months old. I felt such a newbie; everyone else knew each other and could find their way around. I worked so hard at getting myself accepted.
Soon Blogville was a small town and I felt at home. It even had its own newspaper and elected Lady Mayoress. Everybody still knew everyone. As is the way with successful settlements the town became a city and now it is a very big city indeed.
Cities have friends in them, but they have strangers too. They have separate neighbourhoods. Our city has its front page celebrities, but its real character is determined by its ordinary residents, the folks who stick to their own hoods. We live in a sprawling metropolis now. It has a CBD, suburbs, different communities. It has all sorts of institutions: ones for healthy people and ones for those who are sick. Most of us have no idea what goes on the other side of town.
Groups form according to their shared interests and concerns. Some support each other through difficult times. Some are welcoming and love having visitors from outside. Some are quiet and shy groups; they keep their blogs for friends only, quietly and tactfully. Others are different. They seem to enjoy banding together to taunt other peaceful citizens. Then they cut themselves off behind closed blogs or they disappear and come back pretending to be someone new.
Not everyone belongs in a group of friends, there are the lone bloggers who write but are seldom read, and there are ones that silently prey on the naivety of good-hearted souls. It can be hard to know who they are precisely; sometimes a citizen is wrongfully accused.
Like all metropolises, Blogville can be a confusing place to live. I挙e felt a lot of confusion lately witnessing street-corner skirmishes that nobody really understands. Some of my friends have been hurt by them and others of my friends haven«ć even noticed them. For a long time now I挙e been planning a trip away from the city. Perhaps that旧 a good thing. In a few more days I歓l be setting out on that trip. I歓l be away a few months.
I wonder what Blogville will be like when I get back. I wonder if my neighbourhood will be intact. I wonder if I歓l even recognise it. I wonder if I歓l want to stick around.
1 day to go!
► This is Polly, still Wagging 
► Bloggers are a Better Breed ◄ |
 Polly
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15665 posts 7/1/2008 4:42 am |
forget here and go have a wonderful time,
we all be here when you get back
Super rant
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:27 am:
I'm pretty confident that I will have a good time. Thanks, and hugs. 
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4960 posts 7/1/2008 4:47 am |
Thats a damn good description of this place!
Hope you got my email to you finally?
x
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waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:28 am:
Yup, got it. And am processing it.
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5184 posts 7/1/2008 6:09 am |
I am also wondering, one way or the other. I come back to this site for my friends, but sometimes there are so many reasons to leave. No matter what, let's stay in touch, ok?
And have a great trip! 
Latest links:
mine:
Taking care of business
SverigesAngel's:
Odin 2008 ... The FINALS are FINALLY here!
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:29 am:
Stay in touch - absolutely! See you back here too no doubt. 
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929 posts 7/1/2008 2:01 pm |
Polly:
That is an incredible description of the devolution of blogland...
I haven't been here long in this incarnation, may finally start blogging again..but I noticed when I came back this time how much things have changed around here, and how far it had moved from the village it once was...
Hope you do come back...I've always enjoyed reading your blog...
(and your occasional excursion into camland  )
Take good care
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:30 am:
Any hints as to who you were in previous incarnations?
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2768 posts 7/1/2008 2:33 pm |
Online communities are so transient. They always have been. People come and go when real life is more interesting. I look forward to reading about your travel adventures!
~*~ some people drink from the fountain of knowledge others just gargle and spit ~*~
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:31 am:
Thanks for following me along!
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5223 posts 7/1/2008 5:24 pm |
Have fun Polly Hope you got my last message without any difficulties
PENIS CHARMING....where are you?
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:31 am:
Yes I did, and will reply in a min.
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13590 posts 7/2/2008 12:02 am |
 will miss that while your on adventure Polly
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener”
Robert Frost
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 4:33 am:
Miss me, or ask me to contact you privately -- your choice.
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11943 posts 7/2/2008 5:01 am |
 Polly.
When I first moved into Blogville, it was friendly but with the odd troll here and there. No great consequence. Then wars broke out; one person against another, then an entire neighbourhood against another.
Key question here: Why?
Have a good time away. You have earnt it.
To quote Bill Cosby, I'm so smart, I'm smarter than me!
   
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 9:51 pm:
That'd be a good question to ask the mayor of any big city.
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43689 posts 7/2/2008 8:28 am |
Have a wonderful time Polly...
I hate it when people slam the people on "the list". Ive been on it for a year and a half and use to be hurt by this, i dont so much now. Ive got no preference to where I am on that damn list, I even tried to get off of it for awhile by holding back posts and interactions, well my friends wouldnt let me do that. So i continue to get slammed whenever someone wants to complain about us as a whole. Its annoying, and I quit reading alot of blogs over it.
Im just here to write.
Sleeping alone?
  
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 9:55 pm:
It's silly, isn't it? But it's the same in RL. Being a celebrity just isn't a bed of roses.
The funny thing is that I tend to ease off reading friends who hit the top of the list: partly because they tend to become really busy and partly because I feel I can spend my internet time exploring less read blogs and encouraging other people to write.
Just lately I've not had any time to read unfortunately. ... But I'll
come over and see you when I get back to Blogville. You can count on it. |
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6197 posts 7/2/2008 9:27 am |
I suppose I am one of those who is pretty oblivious to the rest of blogland but I too have seen it change. When there were only 50 or 60 of us blogging it did seem like a small world where you could get to know anyone. Now, I tend to stay in my own 'hood and only occasionally go for a walk into that wild, wild megapolis.
All I know for sure is that I will always be grateful that we decided to become neighbors. I will miss your blogging here in the coming weeks. That would be a greater issue were it not for our chance to meet in person in the larger real life neigborhood of Vietnam and Cambodia.
I look forward to that with great anticipation. Cyber is good but real life will always be better.
waggypolly replies on 7/2/2008 9:58 pm:
You sure do. I miss quite a lot of the controvosy, but you miss a lot more than I do.
Cyber is good but real life will always be better.
I'm pretty nervous about transforming cyber life into reality. I'm going to have to rely on your support there.
Hey! Time to start another countdown, I think.
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16103 posts 7/3/2008 4:59 am |
god, i certainly hope you do....
>>>hugs<<<
 
REVOLTING
waggypolly replies on 7/3/2008 6:20 pm:
And I certainly hope that you'll be following my travel blog.
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10983 posts 7/5/2008 11:25 pm |
Hey sweetie, you've left by now and I plan on following your "travel blog"....know this:
I'm heading up a "grass roots" effort to expand the kindness that exists with true bloggers.
It'll take time..but I think we can overcome the horrific juveniles that want to hurt others.
with lies and innuendo. You in?
We can be the change that we want to see.
love you... 
tillerbabe----->His_babygurl-------> Lucent
- evolution is constant.
waggypolly replies on 7/19/2008 7:19 pm:
You know I'm with you on that one. And a big thank you for finding me on my other place. Read along sometimes! I'll be back in October.
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13590 posts 7/6/2008 12:22 am |
feel free to contact me dear...you have that addy
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener”
Robert Frost
waggypolly replies on 7/19/2008 8:22 pm:
I did - round about July 4. Did you get it, or did it land in you spam? Let me know.
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19353 posts 7/9/2008 11:19 pm |
I have been here long enough to exactly what you mean. I am just so very grateful for all the friends I've made, and the support I've been able to give and receive.
I hope your summer is outstanding, and we'll see you when you're around...
The Healing Circle...
waggypolly replies on 7/19/2008 7:49 pm:
I'm having a great summer ... and I'll shoot you if you're not around when I get back!!!!
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13590 posts 7/21/2008 11:07 pm |
I got it dear, looking for the time to stop and enjoy
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener”
Robert Frost
waggypolly replies on 10/17/2008 12:12 am:
I'm glad you got it, so glad.
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