It’s the time of year for gatherings, isn’t it?
As I was gathering photos for today’s blog, I snapped this photo while people were gathering in a supermarket gathering items to buy.
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These day, I’m dealing with the gathering storm in the USA by focusing on gatherings with buddies and other like-minded people — in real life and on social media.
Here are the other images I’ve been gathering for today’s post:
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I’ve been gathering more verses of my poem “There’s No One I Like Better Than My Cat” and sharing them with people gathering on TikTok. Here’s the latest one, which has been gathering many more views (613) than the previous one (16), which I shared in yesterday’s blog post.
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No matter how much information I’m gathering about social media, I’m usually stumped about how to increase my gatherings there.
For those who are gathering their thoughts and feelings about this “gathering” blog post, feel free to share them in the comments- gathering section, below.
Now I’m gathering my gratitude to thank all who are gathering here, now, including YOU!
I consider a gathering an event with more than one person. my letter would say, ‘it will work out, and not as you expect.’
Great message, beth, and you improve any gathering.
We are still here, Ann!
So wonderful to gather with friends like you, Mark!
After Jerry Garcia died, a group of us online joined one other who proposed a gathering of like-minded folks both to mourn Jerry and to keep the Dead vibe going. About 60 of us from all across the country did so. We called it the “Together List.” And when we eventually began to meet each other, we called those meetings “Togatherings.”l We are still going. In that spirit, I think of those of us who “follow” Ann as another Together List of sorts. Ann and Maureen recently had a “Togathering” of their own. And maybe there are others. All I know is that I feel just as much at home here as I do with my other Togs (as we call ourselves). I like to think that all over the country there are people getting together, in one way or another, in preparation for the next four years. And none of us are buying guns,
All together I love this comment, Barbara.
One of my goals for the new year is to find more in-person events. The local library asks for volunteers sometimes and I’d like to help out there, and I hope to find some ukulele events. But I’m also grateful to you for providing fun and safe spaces for people to gather online.
I’m grateful to you for the same, Chris.