People You May Know: The 6S Social Network

[Bill Floyd]

You know who you are.

I only know you through your support and indulgence and your good, strong words--oh yes, and all the confessions you eloquently and sometimes inadvertently make on these supposedly safe pages.

Writing is damn lonely work, but here you are, with your patience and constancy and your corrections when I stray too far afield, meandering and getting too full of myself like I tend to do.

Sometimes it can feel like we're spewing this all into the void, but technology gave us a platform and Rob gave us a home, and now I've got this tenuous, virtual roundtable of showmen and grande dames, pouring gas on my little fire when the embers gutter, yolking my burdens when I need to unload.

Those of you whom I've met in the flesh have taken on added dimension, and now your lovely faces and hugging arms and crying eyes are mine to carry with me wherever I go.

Sometimes you are bold and sometimes tentative, you tell outlandish lies and laugh uproariously in the face of the most bitter truths and you--well, you know who you are.  

[Bob Clay]

I've always like 6S (it gives me a chance to use up the huge bag full of commas I bought cheap on ebay) and the people in it. I tend to wander off now and again coz I don't have to work anymore and suffer from the lure of the Suzuki. It's a bit daunting when you see the quality of what other people write,  there are some real heavy hitters here,  fortunately I gotta fridge full of beer as a back up. ☺

[Kristine_ES]

Bill, I've never known you to get too full of yourself. 

grateful to have found this place. and probably/possibly/hopefully many of us here feel the same way: to paraphrase bowie, we're putting each others matches out with gasoline. 

you summed up the feeling perfectly and what we gain from you, and each other, reflects in the work. 

[Angela]

Fine job you did on this series.  I got to know a lot of folks I would not have come across otherwise.  For me, it was "People You May Know in a Few Moments".

Thanks, also, for your tribute to our community.  It is good to be a part of it, too.  You make it a richer place to be.

[Sandra Davies]

And I, who have ditto re your flesh voice and writing, but not read a single one of your recent pieces, nevertheless trust that you undertand that at times absence, while writing elsewhere, is unavoidable.

Cheers Bill

[Gita]

And I who have met you in the flesh, heard your voice (and seen your actual handwriting)  want to tell you how much I appreciate this month of People You May Know. Man, you put in the time on this series  to  meticulously research 30 people and sift through their lives and then turn that material into beautiful prose.  What a gift to us.  I raise an O'Doul's to you.

[Cita]

Damnit.  You made  me cry.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKeD1PbPGOA  (You deserve this...)

[Bill Floyd]

Much appreciation for inspiration is due the works of David Markson, the Irving Stenn Jr collection, and Greg Humphreys, whose gorgeous album provided the series with its title.

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