this IS your beautiful world

"Why do you even read that guy?"
That's Joe in response to another one of my what-Jeff-wrote moments, when I'm telling Joe about something Jeff Goins said that I couldn't disagree with more. It's not even disagreement, actually, since that seems so mental. My reaction is visceral -- an instantaneous shaking-of-the-head Oh No, you poor thing, how sad for you.
Here's why I read that guy. He's got tons of great information about blogging, tons, that he gives away for free. As I've written before, I am learning so much from him. Really, on blogging, he's great. AND there there are all the other stuff I get from reading him. There's more.
I think it's so good for me to be in contact with people I don't agree with, people whose opinions give me that visceral Oh No, Pobrecito/a, that's so sad. I have this reaction a lot, reading other people's blogs, blogs by the other members of From Left to Write, the bookclub I'm in, for example, a lot of them mothers of young children, a lot of them very Christian faith-y. I'm not part of the Mommy Blogger demographic at all, but somehow I learn a lot from them. And that's the point.
Difference is so helpful. Use it.
