Apples And Pies And Barbara Oh My!

photo credit: Capt­Piper

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant.” ~ Dr. Seuss

Apples!!

Pies!!

Bar­bara Swafford!!

I have an apple with me today.  (yum!)  I want some apple pie. (dou­ble yum!)  And I am hon­ored to know Bar­bara Swaf­ford and have been touched by her pres­ence!! (triple YUM!!)

Let me set the apple aside and stop dream­ing of that apple pie (grudgingly…it tastes soooo good in this dream of mine!) for a moment…

Bar­bara!!

Thank you!  (it hardly seems enough…)

As I think back to when I started down this jour­ney with the Jun­gle of Life, I recall those early days when I was a bit unsure of myself out here in this new world online.  And then, mag­i­cally, I found Bar­bara and her won­der­ful site — Blog­ging With­out A Blog.  What a amaz­ing and wise woman…sharing so many ideas!

It didn’t stop there, though.

There was this thing — the New Blog of The Week (NBOTW) that she was doing back then…featuring new blog­gers and help­ing to give them a start, a boost, a con­nec­tion with others.

I knew so few out there in this big and unknown online world.  And then Barbara…well…she opened her heart…and con­nected me with her car­ing and amaz­ing followers!!

Barbara…thank YOU!!!  Thank you for ALL of this!!

It’s been over two years since that time…and what you gave me was truly a boost in con­fi­dence, an appre­ci­a­tion for car­ing souls, a deeper belief in my own abil­i­ties, and an online class­room in which to learn and grow!

Barbara…may your life be filled with mag­i­cal moments…moments like you have given me and so many others!!

And for every­one read­ing this…know that each of you offer amaz­ing gifts to this world! 

…and…

Enjoy some sweet apple pie!!!!  (…or an apple…) (…or what­ever it is that warms your belly!!)

Barbara…you are a STAR!!  (…shin­ing so brightly into so many lives!!!)

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Lance writes sto­ries from his heart, aim­ing to inspire and moti­vate, as you align more fully with YOUR true peak. When he’s not here, you can find him hang­ing out with his fam­ily, rid­ing a bike, or just gen­er­ally act­ing goofy.   Sign up for the Thoughts from the Tree­house newslet­ter and get addi­tional inspi­ra­tion in your email inbox!

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