h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I just want to thank you for this piece of writing. I fully agree that creativity is mega-important and should be nurtured. I've found this site to be a home where I could creatively contribute, I've been here since 2000, when Douglas Adams was still alive. I've seen people do many wonderful things here. I really hope this site could have a long future still. And I hope to be seeing more of you as well! Best wishes, Willem van der Merwe.

I consider it an honor to have written anything that could be construed as being inspirational.

Thank you for the compliment.

AE

I second Willem's admiration for your entry.


~jwf~



PS: On a point of information, that 'other' online encyclopedia
you refer to as 'already being' was not around when h2g2 was
started.

It, like My Space, Facegook and several other more (or less)
successful websites and forums are all johnny-cum-ladle-y.

Each of them tried to focus on one single aspect, to clarify
one facet of the cloudy h2g2 myriad crystal and they all fail
to give the same overall 5 dimensional satisfaction.

My Space is what h2g2 originally called our homepages.
Facebook offered picture posting when the BBC refused us
owing to bandwidth and legal liability issues.
Wiki just takes information too seriously and is a war zone
of competing expertises. (Expert teases).

Nuff said. You're here, have a beer, my dear.

Thanks for the beer.
Let us be of good cheer.
Consider all to be a peer.

I read ~jwf~ said, “nuff said.”
And so I agree, end that thread.
What is not dead but I dread.

History is such a fickle pickle.
The good are downed by sickle.
Others rise worth not a nickel.

So give my button the boot.
Why dare I to be so cute,
With these rhymes of ill repute?

So what if Johnny was the latter?
Have another beer during the chatter.
H2g2 is what we want to matter.

Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
-Aristotle

Hullo AE! Very inspiring indeed.

Interesting that you know Julia Cameron's Artists Way. I read that book all the time! I have been on the creative path my entire life, and I find that this book is like a companion, who reminds me how to take care of myself, and that I am not alone. I love the inspirational quotes on the edges of the pages.

I think Emily Dickinson (referring to the Post Editorial) would have loved hootoo, in fact. A special place to explore creativity, with others.

cc

“The Artists Way” was also like a companion to me. It helped me get through an emotional time of trauma while at the same time shed light on my artistic path. I found it to be a great self-help book. I went on to buy a copy of her “Vein of Gold”

I am happy you were inspired by my entry. Go where your heart is free.

AE