Weekly Round Up: The Why Blog Edition
My “weekly” round up has become quite sporadic lately but I couldn’t let another week go by without attempting to put this one together. I am sure I have missed out on some great blogs in this selective collection, so please do correct my oversight in the comments below.
How do you choose an oncologist? I have read over the years several blogs on the relationship between oncologist and patient – some good, some not so good – this time it’s the turn of Knot Telling to share her experience. Eileen also picks up the theme of the doctor-patient relationship in her blog too.
This week Nancy has been asking a question that really interests me. Why do we keep on blogging? She shares her reasons in her post and would love to hear from you what your motivation is too. It seems to me that without a burning passion to change things, many of the blogs I love to read would have grown stale and fizzled out a long time ago. Not so with Anne Marie whose passionate advocacy burns bright:
Hell hath no fury like just one type A woman pissed off at anyone who is deliberately and purposefully thwarting any and all attempts at effective advocacy.
Our blogs can be a great space to vent our emotions and find support, as Beth and Philippa’s blog has shown recently. They are also a safe place to express our fears, share our joys and our heartaches as Catherine has been doing. Please visit her blog and show your support as she has received some unsettling news this week. Catherine, my thoughts, prayers and love are with you.
Yet perhaps the more usual way of things, is that we blog for a while and then move on..or hit a wall, as both Renn and The Pink Underbelly have confessed to recently. Or perhaps our focus changes and we start afresh as Terri has done.
Finally this week, never doubt, to quote Margaret Mead, that “a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world” – and perhaps we can apply this to our blogs too. Mead’s quote is perfectly illustrated in Scorchy’s success in effecting a change in Facebook’s policy regarding images of mastectomy. So a big shout-out to the fabulous Scorchy.
Until next week.
Yours with love
Marie xxx
Thank you for this wonderful round-up. It just goes to show that bloggers really can make a difference in our world. Everyone, keep up the great writing! xo
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It’s like the quote I put on here recently about the ripple effect. Our small gestures as well as our big ones cause a ripple throughout the world.
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I really appreciate your round-ups, Marie. Thank you for putting this together. I always find something new in it! (And thank you very much for your thoughts, I appreciate it very much.) ~Catherine
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Thinking of you Catherine xxxsx
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as always, dear marie, you’ve done such a good job gathering wonderful bloggers together and touching on what’s happening in their world; their thoughts, feelings. opinions and questions keep us intrigued and in awe of how they do it. I feel so lucky to be able to find new things to think about every time you do your round-ups. thank you!
much love and the light of gratitude,
Karen XOXO
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Dearest karen, thank you for your kind words. Thinking of you xxx
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Lots to catch up on here, thanks for putting it all togehter
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Thanks for the round-up, Marie! We certainly understand that you don’t always have time to put them together, but of course, we do miss them when you don’t none-the-less! Thanks so much for including my post and thanks for your comment on it. I know you’ve been intrigued by what motivates us to keep blogging, as have I.
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I am always amazed how unconsciously I adapt to various things. I read your Round Up all the time and lately I’ve scoured Twitter convinced I missed the latest Round Up. You are just a part of my life now. Lucky me! xoxoxoxo
Long before my blog took off I would read the Round Up and as a result connected with such great people all over the world. What a wonderful thing that you do that is appreciated by so many. (Thank you for the mention,too.)
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Like Scorchy, I too have been connected to bloggers the world over in large part to Marie’s roundup. I would never have discovered them otherwise. Thank you Marie for all you do, including always making time for the roundup! Thanks for including me.
{{{hugs}}} to all!
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I agree with everyone else. I appreciate what you do and the connections you make in the breast cancer blogging community.
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Marie, you’re sporadic because, thankfully, you have other things in your life as well. Always understood, but a treat when you are able to post the round-up. It’s become a one-stop blog shop for many of us. I’m really glad you posted today because Nancy’s 2 posts about why we blog pose questions I started asking myself. I needed that!
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Marie thank you so much for putting this great round up together. It’s so wonderful the way you keep all of us connected! I have a little catching up to do while I am really enjoying the book you recommended, “Third Time Lucky”, by Pasha Hogan. I hope you know how much so many of us appreciate all of the work that you do. You are a gift to all of us.
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My dear Marie,
I have told you this many times. You have played a major role in bringing so many of us together. It is reflected in the comments. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for highlighting that paraphrased quote from my recent blog post. It is so deeply personal and those words, on some (many, most?) level, are primal.
Love,
AnneMarie
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Anne Marie your friendship and your support mean the world to me – thank you xxx
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Hello, Marie. Thank you so much for the work you put into the Round-up! Special thanks for including my oncologist post in this week’s edition.
You are such an important member of the community!
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It is wonderful to see your Round Up this week – incredible in that you have managed to do this while zipping around the world too!!
As so many of us say, the role you play in bringing us together and being that “one stop blog shop” (love that 🙂 ) is something to cherish.
Thank you so much for including my rant – well, rants I guess as there were two of them! Interesting I wrote a post a while back on the “why of blogging” – a theme we all keep going back to 🙂 http://feistybluegeckofightsback.wordpress.com/2012/08/20/the-meaning-of-life-and-the-why-of-blogging/
I hope you are well, and not too jetlagged. Hugs from the monsoon
P 🙂 xxx
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Thank you so much, Marie, for including my post in this roundup of great blogs.
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Always a pleasure Beth 🙂
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