Swan Song 2012
It seems it is time for me to disappear from the polls on The Real LJ Idol. Votes for me in this coming poll won’t matter as I am bowing out. Hopefully it will help someone else move on to next week.
I have enjoyed this season and wish you all the best. Thanks especially to Gary for all the time and energy he puts into LJ Idol.
I want to close with some quotations that express, better than I could, what I feel the LJ Idol community is all about:
“Fortunately art is a community effort - a small but select community living in a spiritualized world endeavoring to interpret the wars and the solitudes of the flesh.”
Allen Ginsberg
(Thank you, Gary, for giving us this place for our interpretations. Thank you, community members, for sharing your interpretations with me. I always learn so much from LJ Idol.)
“In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.”
Marianne Williamson
(Thank you, everyone in LJ Idol, for showing me what the power of community truly is.)
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
Rollo May
“There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.”
M. Scott Peck
Thank you, each of you, for sharing your lives and hearts, through fiction and all the non-fiction genres, with me.