Today, I was at the Ogden Museum for Southern Art and we were there particularly to see the Prospect 3 exhibit and while in one of the galleries a woman approached and said my name and told me she reads my blog. She introduced me to her S.O. and we all shook hands. <\/p>\n
I’ve met a few people who have followed my blog over the years – strangers not friends, well that is until we met in cyberspace and became friends. One is Alice<\/a> in Salt Lake City, who has been a supporter of mine. Another is Mudd<\/a> in Canada who has been a kindred spirit as well. I’ve spoken with few people who read my blog. But every now and then I meet someone in real life flesh and blood who I’ve never met before and it has been remarkable. <\/p>\n I was at a friend’s party once and a woman came up who lives in New Orleans and said she knew me from my blog. A few years later, I was at another party and was speaking to that same woman and another woman I had just met and the first turned and said, “You need to read her blog, it’s worth it.” Twice this person – Leslie – paid me a compliment that she didn’t even begin to know the ramifications of – at both junctures I was ready to give up, and both times I ran into her and she told me this and it gave me faith. <\/p>\n I met another woman who is married to a college friend of mine – she told me that after the 2005 Federal Flood she was at home with a newborn and PTSD like all of us had and her husband told her to read my blog and she did and she said it was helpful. She didn’t know – Megan – that her words encouraged me to keep writing. <\/p>\n At the museum, when this woman approached while I was gazing at works by artists I admire, and told me she, a woman who lives in Santa Fe via New York, follows my writing, well, I have to say I was flattered – I don’t get paid for my writing with a million commentators like some have on their sites, I don’t get paid with posts going viral, my currency is that someone, somewhere found value in what I wrote. <\/p>\n Thank you, woman I will not name from Santa Fe – you made my day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, I was at the Ogden Museum for Southern Art and we were there particularly to see the Prospect 3 exhibit and while in one of the galleries a woman approached and said my name and told me she reads my blog. She introduced me to her S.O. and we all shook hands. I’ve met a few people who have followed my blog over the years – strangers not friends, well that is until we… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-5cD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20003"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20013,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20003\/revisions\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}