Just stepped under the gazebo, waiting for a shower to pass.
I should have kicked off my heels and danced in the rain.
ACK! I know, I know, this photo looks eerily familiar đ I was actually going to make my previous post a double-shot for Avatar Blogger Month and Single Frame Stories, but then I remembered Whiskey asked us to use a landscape format. So…I went back and did some more editing on the same raw shot to make sure my entries don’t cause her grief!
I’m getting this in a bit late – the post for this week’s prompt, “Community” has already been published, but we have a grace period, since this is part of the display for SL10B. If you want to participate in Single Frame Stories, you can get in now with any of the three selected prompts: Identity, Community, and next week’s, Creativity. Just upload them to the Single Frame Stories Flickr group by Friday of next week.
While blogging is often a solitary endeavour, there is a huge number of bloggers in Second Life. Many may never meet another SL blogger. Yet there is a true sense of community through blog comments and other social media platforms. A blogger’s words can be nothing more than a personal online journal, or it can reach hundreds of thousands of readers. But no matter where on the spectrum yours sits, it’s a bit frightening – yet empowering – to realise that once that post is published, even if you delete it, there is still a copy cached somewhere on the interwebs. It’s a connection we all share and links us together.
A gaggle of bloggers – a group of individuals who face the same hurdles with every post they write – constitutes a community where I am happy to belong.
Just as an aside, neither thesaurus.com nor synonym.com have another word for “blogger”!

Seated: Vaneesa Blaylock Left to right: Strawberry Singh, Peep Sideshow, Anarya Elderslie, Lizzie Gudkov & Ravensong Merlin
Vaneesa Blaylock set probably one of the hardest challenges possible – to try to get all 24 bloggers participating in the Avatar Blogger Month together in one place at one time! Since we’re scattered across the globe in heaven knows how many time zones, I don’t think it was possible, even for someone as energetic and positive as Vaneesa. She did, however, manage to gather six of us for a quick photo shoot to mark the completion of the first week of the challenge. For those of you who don’t know, ABC stands for Avatar Blogger Crossfit – if you missed my earlier post, you can check out our training work stations and more about this challenge here.
I was thrilled to meet these amazing ladies who share their views of Second Life with the rest of the world in their blogs. To be honest, I hadn’t read any, other than Strawberry Singh’s, prior to this challenge. It’s been a marvelous opportunity to find these new bloggers (at least to me).
Please take the time to get to know them. Their blogs are all worth a look. And reading them sure beats the hell out of herding cats!
Vaneesa Blaylock: Vaneesa Blaylock @ iRez
Strawberry Singh: Strawberry Singh Blog
Anarya Elderslie: Stuffery
Ravensong Merlin: Chaotic Virtuality
Lizzie Gudakov: Lizzie is currently publishing a 12-part story on irez.me, It Takes A Village. When she completes it, you can catch up with her on her personal blog, lizziegudakov
You can check out the full participants list here.
PS to Berry – please note, we got our gold star đ