Full Circle Associates

Mama JunkYard's- Not Just Junk! was a treat for me this morning, as I feel too sick to work on a writing project, but felt the pull of my blog reader. I found it via a comment she posted to my post on Blogging While Black panel at SXSW Interactive. (Which reminds me, I really want to follow up on comments and I haven't. I wonder why?)

MJY blogs from Kenya and this entry led me to a circle of amazing women bloggers.

Having been to Kenya just once, my experience was small and fleeting. But what impressed me were the women who were organizing in Nairobi to create change. The same as my experience in visiting Cape Town, South Africa.

To be able to connect with this circle of women is a gift that exemplifies the value of online networks and communities. I am taken outside of my experience, given another perspective and then can weave it back into my reality. I, in turn, can offer things out to the world.

Thank you, Mamma Junk Yard, for a beautiful and tangible reminder.