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Stopping to Celebrate! 100+ Party Links that Mark Our History

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Thank You for Coming!

They act as if time is marching all over them, with each year ticking off their lives with a resounding effect. People stomp through their lives, never stopping to celebrate milestones, small victories, and everyday achievements. —Alicia

Celebrations. Birthday parties. Anniversaries. Graduations. Marriages. New Houses. New Babies. Openings and Closings. And the dates that remember them. In the timeline of a lifetime, it’s not hard to start seeing them as interruptions and burdens.

Wouldn’t our calendars be so much freer without all of those ritual obligations?

Last Tuesday and today, I was reminded why we stop what we’re doing to take part in those “interruptions.”

It’s the stopping and the gathering that holds together a community. We see each other. We see who’s here and who’s gone missing. We tell stories of our history. We remember what we used to be and notice how we’ve grown.

In an event tied to last year, we notice this point compared to that one. We see what we’ve given and what we’ve managed. We reunite with people we didn’t know we’d thought we had lost, and in some ways they bring back parts of our personal history.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by to celebrate and mark this day for next year’s celebration. Meanwhile, here’s some of what happened at this one!

At This Year’s Party

We had a refreshments.
emdoozie | Michael Anderson said, “Cocktail anyone?” and Bean brought the party hats.
Katie Baird was kind enough to provide the Atomic Cake. and Martin Neumann won a copy of DivaJess’s ebook The Indispensable Guide To Living & Working From Anywhere You Want

REVIEWS were good. I particularly liked this one that came in while the party was still in progress.

isabella mori said

well, HELLO everyone! look at all these people! and the balloons and the party hats and the BAND! where did you get that band, liz? and i LOVE your dress. you look even better than last time i saw you, how do you do that?

and Giovanna Garcia left, but returned with a video birthday I-Action wish . . .

Joe of course, wrote his traditional road side poem.

Everyone brought a present tonight
Links, successful to everyones delight

The good will and best wishes did flow
You could see Liz’s face was all aglow

New friends and old gathered tonight
To thank Liz for a friendship so tight

We all hope that there are many more years
Of Blogs Successful, Liz leading, smiling, no tears.

Burma Shave

Nite Liz
Nite All

Everyone contributed photos, articles, and stories for us to celebrate and to mark this place in our mutual history.

Here are the links you brought:

Thank you, everyone, for being part of Successful-Blog history.

–ME “Liz” Strauss
Work with Liz!!

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