Past my bedtime -which is sad in and of itself, as it's 9pm.

It's been a long and busy day.
Seriously...my email inbox saw more action today than it usually sees in a month! The Beckoning of Lovely cabinet was emailing back and forth all over the place, and then my department members were sending out introduction emails (all completely wonderful, by the way), and then lots of them responded to my responses...and...you get the idea. I don't have an exact count of the emails, but at a guess there were 30. It was AWESOME. I am excited :-)

Oh, and I don't remember if I mentioned this (which is sad, as I posted YESTERDAY), but The Beckoning of Lovely project is still taking submissions. Go here for project background and submission details -the submission info is about 2/3 of the way down the page...look for the brown font.

Some other web.sights that tickled my fancy today:

Help Others (dot) org -a site dedicated to acts of kindness. I especially like their smile card game!

Thing-a-Day 2009 -a collection of people committed to making a thing a day in February. I love this idea, and it's fun to see what people are making!

Neil Gaiman's Twitter -I don't know a lot about Twitter, so I can't keep up with the Tweet-ese...but I get a kick out of Mr. Neil's comments, and it's cool to be able to follow him in real time. In a completely non-creepy-stalker kind of way :-P

OK...bed.

Oof...tired. But determined to post!

I'm completely exhausted and way too keyed up to sleep. Things are finally moving on the Beckoning of Lovely front, and the email is flying like...something that...flies a lot? You know what I mean.

Today I had a conference call with some of the key cabinet members to share ideas, get a sense of the larger goals and How to Proceed. It was a good meeting, very exciting stuff was discussed, but I have to say...conference calls? Not my favourite medium of communication. Very effective, and it was cool to be on there...but I have a lot of trouble speaking up in a group when I can sense body language, let alone when I can't see anyone! Ah well -it was nice to see things get underway, and the issues I had were totally to do with me and my extreme shyness around strangers, even super-awesome-friendly ones.

Anyway, in other news I have successfully managed to break myself of the parenting-board habit...by going back to the SARK message board:-P And let me demonstrate why I love this place so much:

Here were the first few threads I read:

1. Someone asking for prayers/good vibes for a doctor's visit
2. A meeting of "joy rebel warriors"
3. A collection of beautiful poetry and photos
4. A thread of support for a woman who filed for divorce today
5. A collection of haikus to celebrate the upcoming marriage of a board member

That's it. No debates. No judgment. Just immense outpourings of love and support and creativity. I felt like I was going back home.

Now, I know it's not for everyone -Papa Bear, for one, is far too cynical to enjoy something like this- but it is the perfect place for someone like me. And it makes me very happy to be back!

Anyway, this is a disjointed entry, but it's an hour past my bedtime, so it'll have to do!

Nighty night!

Thank you, universe

*does a happy dance*
Just heard from the wonderful Amy-Beckoning-of-Lovely! She says:

Hello Meg,

Thank you for your desire to be part of the "Beckoning of Lovely". . . so glad that you want to join this expanding project of all things lovely.( . . .) I would like to officially offer you the top position in what will be called our "Department of Immense" as the Secretary of Immense.

*does another happy dance*

She doesn't know what my department will be doing, and that terrifies me, but it's good for me to leap into the unknown now and then. So I did. I couldn't not do it.

The other day I wrote a submission to The Beckoning of Lovely, which I was going to submit tomorrow (the deadline) if I didn't hear back about my application. I don't feel right submitting and being on the team, so I will post it here. Enjoy!

Someday
we'll look back
on this brief
Eternity
and wonder
how we missed
the Magic
right in front of us.

*****

TO DO LIST:
Dream vibrantly
Dance wildly
Sing loudly
Eat indulgently
Nap luxuriously
Laugh uproariously
Write courageously
Speak confidently
Love intensely
Live joyfully.