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Friday, March 16, 2007

24 hours of gratitude in cyberspace

ThankFest! 24 Hours of Gratitude in Cyberspace: Friday, March 16, 2007

It's a challenge. It's a dare. It's a double-dog-dare! For whatever I can do to convince you of the urgent nature of being thankful for even just one day, I will.  I invite you to join me on this quest: for just 24 hours, I want you to be the Ghost of Gratitude Past, running through the halls of cyberspace in your socks shouting at the top of your lungs to everyone who will listen and who you know. Tell them why you're thankful. Tell them about some small, insignificant thing that turned out to be the one that changed your life. Tell your teachers, your coaches, your mentors and friends. Tell your children that night as your tucking them in something about them that makes you utterly thankful they're a part of your life.

Join the Thank-a-Thon for 24 hours starting Friday, March 16th, 2007!

You've only got a day to get the word out, so fire up Twitter, baby! Tell every Who in Whoville that you'll be blogging, emailing, faxing, campaigning to build the troops that will march into the halls of cyberspace and give thanks. Got a blog? Use it! Some other digital pulpit? Preach from it! Whatever you do, take a moment to explain why you're thankful that day.

Need a kickstart? Ideas shared here.

Know people who aren't connected? Have them write it, phone it in, paint it with a fingertip on a foggy window and take a picture to send it in. Help them share it someplace, any place, online, so it can be part of the living tribute we'll be growing in our digital gardens that day.

Then tuck a link to your own ThankBloglet it into a comment in response to this posting so we can watch the flow ...

Consider it humanity's family album of the things that change our lives when we simply pause to give thanks. Make it an International Day of Thanks; a tapestry of gratitude leading to cascades of uplift that will infect our other days. While we have different days that we pause to celebrate and to be thankful in our various nooks and crannies of meatspace, let this be the one day that unites us without a tragic history, or dogmatic tale to tell, about how and why we gathered to give Thanksgiving a little early this year.

Then on Friday, March 16th, 2007, give your thanks, capture it digitally (words, pictures, sound, whatever you're inspired to do), and return here to dive into the portal that will be open to connect you with the digital scrapbook to share your link.

Let this be the day that inboxes are swamped with no-spam invitations to enlarge an even bigger organ: our heart.

Sue.