My Prospective Of Blogville

 

 

I was going to throw my hat into the ring for the Official Logo of Blogville to be used on a flag and all documents that Murphy & Stanley are hosting.  

My design has the earth in the center for us bloggers live all around the globe. 

It has a circle representing unity.  Unity in our love for animals.

I drew a very silly spotty dog (perhaps it could be Roxy) and a cat with white paws.

The animals tails start and end the word Blogville like a thread that holds us together.

It has the paw prints and the words Power of the Paw.

We can have much power together.

Power in numbers to speak out against animal cruelty.

Power in numbers to help our friends in need with veterinarian bills.

Power in number to pray with our friends when their animals are sick.

And someone to listen when their animals time has come to an end and they have to say goodbye.

But this past week I received an e-mail by mistake.  The e-mail was written by someone I considered a friend.  It had harsh comments about Lee.  "I had minor indirect interaction w Lee March 2012 when there was an effort to set up a blogville mall. It was a very unusual experience.  She is rather intense and a nitpicker."

I want to speak to this Mall for one minute.

My job was to go over all legal.  We had to compare E-Bay and Itsy to the Rules and Regulations of our Mall to come.  Then we had to start the paperwork to register it out of Florida where Roo lives.

It was a time consuming task  and as legal goes every word had to be correct.

When Roo and I finished, Lee elected to quit the project.  One reason being Lee had went into Waldenstrom and was very sick.  Lee closed us down for five months.

 We were six weeks into the project and no consensus was made to a name for the Mall yet.
There were no conciliatory moves or decisions.

Subsequently one person quit the following week.

Then four people quit the following month.
Then two bloggers left our community.

NOW IN THIS E-MAIL THE STATEMENT HIGHLIGHTED ABOVE COMES.

If she feels the effort was not given its just dues then perhaps she should not have quit the Mall project herself or spoken up at the time, not now in June 2014.  And spoken to me directly not in gossip to someone else.  When I e-mailed the person back she had mistakenly sent it to me,  her quote was "I am sorry you got the e-mail".  Not that she was sorry for her hurtful words. 
Lee was never given a reason as to why she 
was "very unusual" or what Lee was nitpicking about. 

 

So in concluding Lee says we no longer feel our design was an appropriate representation of what Blogville is about.
When negative comments are made behind our backs it diminishes what Blogville should be about? 
It hurts the person being talked about.  And if one stops to think I believe the one doing the gossiping has diminished themselves.

 

I think this poem is appropriate

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)

 

So true ~  Lets speak out when you see injustice. 

That old saying about sticks and stones, well it no longer applies. 
It is now called bullying! 

Blogville and the Globe will become a much nicer place to live.
Lets make Blogville the bestest town on the globe.

 

Sweet William The Scot

PSSS ~ I was the one who coined bestest which many of you use.
 For those of you who think I am intense well read this post http://sweetwilliamthescot.blogspot.com/2013/05/look-out.html
or any of Rockin Wills, The Music Professor Posts or the William Pip and Puddles Post.
Oh and when I heard I was such a nitpicker ~~~~~~~~~~
Well all I could think was KNIT ONE PEARL TWO! 

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