The Final Touch

A blessed Thanks­giv­ing to all from Heidi at Final Touch Proof­read­ing & Editing!

10,000 Cou­ples, a newly-launched web-zine cel­e­brat­ing healthy, lov­ing, same-gender rela­tion­ships, is attract­ing fol­low­ers, fans, and par­tic­i­pants world­wide. Every­one comes to the mat­ter of homo­sex­u­al­ity, bisex­u­al­ity, and trans­gen­der with dif­fer­ent beliefs and under­stand­ings. Yet it’s hard to per­sist in emo­tions as strong as hatred and con­dem­na­tion when you read a love story such as this one about two women who have shared mutual love and com­mit­ment for 70 years! Yes! — SEVENTY! Not many peo­ple of what­ever sex­ual self-understanding can claim that! A very spe­cial and inspir­ing love story.

I just dis­cov­ered the Writer’s Digest Com­mu­nity http://​ping​.fm/​Z​JpCT and am excited to link up in yet another way with fellow/sister writ­ers and editors!

It astounds me how much I’ve heard and read in just the past week regard­ing con­nect­ing with oth­ers via social-networking sites! I know all these arti­cles and ideas didn’t just come about this week, so I gather it’s because my mind has sud­denly been opened to the con­cept, thanks to a sis­ter busi­ness­woman who has quickly become some­one I count as a friend (shout-out to Tanya Mor­ri­son: www​.360de​gree​woman​.org !) and who led me, in turn, to link up with Sab­rina Gib­son (www​.Social​Net​work​ingRock​Star​.com) under whose tute­lage I will begin a Social Net­work Max­i­miza­tion men­tor­ing pro­gram in just a cou­ple of weeks.

Social-networking sites have grown by leaps and bounds over the past few years, and they’re not just for swap­ping gos­sip or quips about one’s day any­more! Not that there’s any­thing wrong with that casual social­iz­ing, but I find myself intrigued and fas­ci­nated by the (still rel­a­tively) new oppor­tu­nity for broad­en­ing our com­mu­ni­ties, our busi­ness net­works, the knowl­edge base from which we may ben­e­fit, and — if we are will­ing — our world­views in such a rel­a­tively easy and inex­pen­sive way. Even those of us who are self-employed and fairly “solitarily-employed” are by no means “out here on our own” any­more! In the words of the beloved Mis­ter Rogers, “It’s such a good feel­ing…!” and “It’s a beau­ti­ful day in the [cyber-]neighborhood!… Won’t you be my neighbor?”