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.  

[Jenni Marie]

Thank God for this place. I am so glad that I finally got to meet some of the amazing voices here.

[Jamie Hogan]

Hope I don't step on any toes, but this is the best series I've ever read on this site. And this is the way a Writer finishes things.

[Joey Delgado]

Very beautiful tribute to the people who inspired you. Nice piece. :)

[Michael Brown]

I didn't know any of these people before you wrote about them, but have been quietly checking in and following on the sidelines and feel these are all people worth knowing, and that I do now, a little bit more, thanks to your superb presentations done with heart and warmth, each piece a little memorial to someone who may not have profoundly changed the world, but has earned a place of honor.

You've done a grand job.

[Stephen Torelli]

Superb work, Bill.

[Mike Handley]

Eloquence incarnate.

[Paul de Denus]

You are one of the reasons I come to this sight- you've opened my tin can to let out what's swirling in there- and many others here too- thanks for that Bill- Great series.

[Toby Tucker Hecht]

I've never met you but I do know you and that's why I keep coming back to reading your posts.  As to all the others on 6S, you all are tolerant and helpful and determined and make me feel as though I belong.

[Brittany]

Teresa is right, this place would not be the same without you. I remember when you first started your journey on this site and you've always been kind, constructive and helpful when you comment. Your writing fills us with excitement and envy. We all look forward to Halloween on 6s now, I think.

[Teresa]

What Gita said about the time and effort you put into this quality series.  My deepest self lives here, and so many confessions, and so many hand-picked friends.  After a while I guess we stop caring about real safety because there's really no such thing.  There are just people who make us feel safe and you are one.  You can't buy that.  Thank you so much for this series and tribute.  This place would so not be the same without you.