Last thought from Barbara, but surely not the final word!
In a note online at the Hold This Thought website, she wrote: “While Hold this Thought has done everything I ever wanted it to do—start conversations, refer people to new sources of good reads, inspire reflection—it’s simply too much work for one person. When it took off nationally, everything just quadrupled. I want to spend time with my family and my LIFE, and not spend so much time on the computer every evening and weekend. I like my life to stand on many legs, but Hold this Thought made for a one-project life.”
A certain AlaskaWriters editor understand (all too well). This comes a little late, but I’d like to suggest visiting the (still active) program website and sharing your thought of thanks with Barbara for bringing this elegantly simple and effective program to our lives, and for knowing when she needed to move to the next thing (which I suspect may be most important lesson a creative person can learn).
Congratulations, Barbara, and much respect on this successful run!
June 26, 2009
