Sharing with me:

I learned about the power of participation from Mean Laura. Social media is only an effective tool when there is give and take. On twitter, she recently asked “In ONE word, what do you expect from 2012?”  I chose the word SHARE because I expect and hope to participate (both give and take) with others.

My good friend, the doctor of musicology, taught me that entertainment isn’t all bad and is, perhaps, as important as education.  Am I obsessed with meaning?  Must everything be significant and educational?  Go to thesaurus.com and check the synonyms for educate (edify, coach, enlighten) and entertain (delight, inspire, gratify). Words are just words but we decide the personal links to our lives.  The doctor is all about entertainment and inspiration through music.  He has introduced me to genres of great music that would have been outside my comfort zone and now has his own Internet radio show on xstream radio. What does he do with his love of music?  He shares.

And then there’s my artist friend, Zinnia, who taught me that we are all unique.  Technology is only a tool, like a fork.  You don’t need a fork to eat, but it does make it easier and more polite.  You do, however, need to eat.  Zinnia uses technology to create unique expression and to share that with others.  She helped me learn to take a risk with my own unique expression.  She does that much better than I do.  Yesterday, Zinnia let me pick a button from her bag of lovely colorful words…I chose the word share.