
This is an amazing platform, WordPress, and others like it. It allows us all to communicate, share our dreams, desires, dislikes, likes, favorite items, favorite foods and ourselves. It gives us a space to be intimate with as little (or more) exposure as we each choose. What it has provided is a place to make friends and unexpected connections. It crosses the borders of countries and continents and we are all able to meet, chat, see and read into the lives of one another. And before long we are all needing one another! Needing the next exciting dish to cook for dinner or the next read which lets us all know we are not alone in this big world going through happy times or trying times or the only one gasping for air beneath the many hats we all wear. We learn from one another that love is real and it exists and we are all entitled to a share. We learn there are dark places in other places and the only remedies are perseverance, optimism and unwavering faith – just as you suspected in your part of the world. We learn there is freedom in sharing and the pair of boots we dream about does exist. We need each other not in the way we need oxygen but in the way we need the phone to ring after a spectacular, first date or the way we need there to be water at the beach or in the way there must be salt in the stew. And soon we more than need each other but we “Like” each other – over and over again. Today, we were notified we received 1,000 likes …from all of you!!!!

Please know we like you, too! We genuinely do! And we thank you all for visiting us here each day since the first day we began this blog earlier this year, only a few months ago. You have become our special guests – and we enjoy having you here with us. As big as this platform is, we thank you bigger than that!
J&L Simon

Yeah! Yahoo! Yippee! & Congratulations!
Thank you!!! We appreciate each and every like. It’s the weekend! We hope you enjoy it! Thanks for visiting!
Sv: Thx u and thanks for the lovely comment
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You are certainly welcome!
Thx u!
And by farmer’s marketing I obviously meant farmer’s market
(too much vietnamese iced coffee tday…..)
We didn’t notice an error. No problem. Tomorrow is Monday – hope you have a great day!
Love it! Went to the farmer’s market today! Have you tried freezing watermelon slices? Best thing in the world
Hope you stocked up on lots of nature’s goodies today! No, we have not tried freezing watermelon – interesting! We will give it a try …thank you! And thanks for visiting!
Nice! Thanks for visiting Gunsmoke and Knitting!
Thank you! And thanks for stopping by to visit.
Thanks for visiting my site. This is a terrific post.
Thank you! And congratulations on being nominated for the Liebster Blog Award! You mum’s spring garden is lovely! Thank you for stopping by to visit and we hope you have an amazing day!
Congratulations! Expect me to drop by often.
Thank you so very much! We appreciate you!
Sv: Thx u 4 all your #Likes on my posts !
Nice blog:)
You’re welcome and thank you! Hope you continue to enjoy your vacation!
Couldn’t have said it better. You really captured the amazing reach of WordPress. Congratulations!
Thank you so very much! Hope the weekend is going great for you!
It is – thanks!!
A fantastic place, this place is. Thanks for stopping by to visit!
Well said!
Thank you! And thank you for visiting. Hope you’re enjoying the weekend!
WordPress is just like a huge family
Congrats on your milestone!
Thank you! A huge family is a great way to look at it! Thanks for visiting and we hope you’re having a great weekend!
Congrats! Loved your sentiments above—very beautiful!
Thank you! And thank you for visiting us! We hope you are having a great weekend!
Congratulations on your 1000th like….and here’s to a thousand more!
Thank you for the super kind words and for visiting! Hope you are having a great day!
Congratulations! That’s a wonderful accomplishment. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
It is a wonderful accomplishment which we know we could not have achieved alone; therefore, we thank you! And thank you for the kind words! We hope you are having a great weekend!
Congratulations on the big 1000. I want to be like you when I grow up.
Thanks Liz …for visiting and for the kind words! We hope you are having a great weekend!
Well done!! You’ll probably get 2,000 in half the time
Thank you much for the kind words and for stopping by to visit. We hope you come back soon!
Congrats and have a beautiful evening !
Thank you! And thank you for visiting! We hope you have great weekend!