Today’s Poetry Friday parade is parked at CHECK IT OUT.
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This week I wrote a love poem of sorts to a stranger, which you can find here on twitter.
It was praise, appreciation, exaltation dashed off quickly for someone named a Happiness Engineer.
This is a real person working for WordPress,
who solved my kerbobble wobble of a recent post when the comment box had no gumption – wouldn’t function.
The Happiness Engineer sent me such a sweet note about receiving an original poem. (And didn’t even mention the typo!)
So now I’m of a mind to more often create a little ditty (nod to dear Michelle, Poetry Friday’s Today’s Little Ditty editor, author, creator, mentor) when I find myself saying a big thank you to the people who keep me functioning in work & at home (book finder, plumber, hurricane spotter, mole finder, etc.) Why didn’t I think of this before?
I am still so floaty that an email I sent into the void, asking for help, was read by an actual, factual, live human who bears a winsome work title & who responded efficiently with a fix. In keeping with this theme of rhyme poems of praise , I saw a poem sent along this week in social media from the Glasgow (Scotland) Women’s Library:
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Libraries, oh libraries,
We couldn’t live without you
Ain’t the world a lovely place? Here is one for lovely you:
In a moment to spare
you left a few words
lines of flair,
like trills of the birds
-Jan Godown Annino
So many appreciations for visiting today. I want to see what you’ve written at your lovely site. And . . .
I hope you can return here next Friday, Feb. 22, when I’ve been invited to join some keen bloggers
& post a few words about a new book in town. There will be a Give Away 🙂
Remember that Poetry Friday this week is hosted at CHECK IT OUT
Bookseedstudio 
24 responses to “Love letter”
There’s nothing like great customer service to turn your day around, right? 🙂
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A happy spin! Love to have you visit today – many thanks 🙂
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Love your poems, and I love the idea of writing gratitude poems for those who help us out and support us along the way.
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Many thanks! And so many appreciations for stopping by today!
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I’ve communed with the happiness engineers, too. What talented folk they are. I so appreciate the heroism of helping the public understand how to do things that are in constant flux.
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Glad you have a Happiness Engineer happy report, Brenda. More happiness to you, always 🙂
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What a joyful post, Jan!! Love that you wrote a poem for the HE who helped you. This is the main reason I’ve been a loyal WP user for so long — best tech support on the web. Just the other day I did an online chat with a HE about a Pinterest problem, something they’re not obligated to do, but this particular person took the time to listen and test out a few things and make some suggestions. She wasn’t able to solve the issue, but her words must have been magic — because the next morning I was able to solve the problem myself. Fairy dust, they are!
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O! Wow, Jama. Appreciations for this #Happiness Engineer #WordPress story of magic making.
I think you were touched by her unexpected effort. This will help me whistle while I work this week 🙂
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Thanks for bringing a ray of sunshine via #gratitude rhymes to us this week, Jan. What a keen and creative way to spread #poetrylove and #thankfulness. Love your Random Acts of Kindness in gratitude to those who least expect it. Pay it Forward is a wonderful way to start my week.
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Thank you, Carol & happy weekend & happy pay it forward week to you!
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LOVE your Twitter poem, Jan, and how wonderful of you to share it with us. ❤
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O dear wonderful Carmela, you & Teaching Authors are originators of the ThankU, the poem of gratitude in Haiku form.
I should have referenced it. Everyone – go look up Teaching Authors & their lovely poetry practice of ThankU.
Right now! Before it becomes a book (it should) so you can say you knew about it Way. Back. When.
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Didn’t Mister Rodgers always say to look to the helpers. I can’t wait for next week.
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Yes! I wish I had referred to our kind sweater Sir. Thank you for your mindfulness about Look For the Helpers. You have certainly helped me today!
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Oh, Fabulous! I love how positive you are….you make me believe there is goodness out there beyond the void. Three cheers for the helpers!
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Well, dear Linda! You are hereby known as Queen of Good.
You were the Heroine willing to jump into the Bookseedstudio void & carry my post at your site – were it necessary.
I will be forever grateful for those fm private messages – you kept me from a panic.
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Gratitude makes us healthier and happier, and gratitude for unknown faces who reach down and pull us out of invisible pits is even more powerful, I think.
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Excellent thought, Heidi, thank you so much. So often I am grateful for ones I know & love but much more often I need to express gratitude for those I’m not actually acquainted with. So glad you could visit here & Happy Weekend!
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Aren’t helpers wonderful? I never would have gotten through my illness without them! Sometimes just the least significant employee is the one who makes a huge difference in our lives. Love your post and your Twitter poem, Jan!
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Yes! The man who wipes down the wall with a smile or the person pushing the gurney who whistles for you. Tiny tender mercies are magnified at times when we are so vulnerable. And it wasn’t life-threatening, but I did feel so boing-boing about it betwixt & between! By the way, your blog today at MY BRAIN ON BOOKS, just melts my heart. From your description I feel that SONG FOR A WHALE sounds like a mega super star book & potential movie. Must. Read. (I had seen the cover in social media, quickly, but had no idea . . . )
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I’m quite happy you connected to a ‘real’ person & found a fix, a Valentine of gratitude must have made that “happiness engineer” smile, Jan. I have Rebecca’s book, a wonder to love! Happy Poetry Friday!
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“A wonder to Love,” is a perfect way to tease it in this week of Love, Linda.
Many thanks for your alerting me to that wobble-wibble. You. Are. The. Best.
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So full of love and generosity you are, Jan – this post makes my heart happy. Thank you for pointing to the sparkly lights around us. (Once I had a major blog catastrophe – when I was HOSTING Poetry Friday and all the comments disappeared the next day – and they were eventually ‘fixed’ by the Authors Guild folks’ “Knights of the Universe” or some such as their title – ha! I like your ‘Happiness Engineer’ even better.)
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What an experience that was for On The Deckle Edge, Robyn. So glad you found your Happiness Engineer! There is The Good out there. There are The Helpers. Comforting to keep that in mind.
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