Support Networks with Strangers…
…are not so weird or new. Back in the days before teh Interwebz, craft magazines had a back section of classified ads and one of the sections was Pen Pals. You looked through until you read an ad from someone who sounded interesting and then you sent a letter to the address they posted and hoped that they liked what you wrote enough to write you back.
People posting in magazines their interests and their home address sounds more risky than starting a blog or going on Facebook. So, haters, get off my back about safety and privacy.
As I was saying, I have found a great deal of support from people that I’ve never met in person but that I feel I’ve come to know by reading their posts. Sometimes I feel they are being supportive just by sharing things that they feel that I have also felt — this is the support via “I’m not the only one.” Sometimes they just come right out and say, “Hey, get over yourself and have a great rest of the day,” and I feel — surprisingly — better.
