Wow I love your poem and your inspiration; Emily Dickinson is one of my favorites!
I see that @newbieresteemday already upvoted and resteemed your post! Congratulations ;) I am a member of that awesome group and also of @asapers, who share the same focus of helping people and promoting quality, unnoticed posts.
I joined steemit in mid-December and am enjoying it, although there was a steep learning curve for sure! I belong to a few groups here who welcome, support, and mentor new people and not so new people and I thought it might be something you'd interested in. They each have a Discord channel as well, which if you don't know, is another place that we connect, chat, share ideas, contest, problems, share your posts ...whatever you need actually. The groups are @newbieresteemday, which I see has resteemed your posts a couple of times and @asapers. We overlap a bit, but that's a good thing because you can get to know so many like-minded people who are really interested in selfless, community spirit, and in supporting each other. Your writing deserves to be noticed, and joining these groups is a good way to increase your circle here and do just that.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask.
Here are the Discord links for each group too! I hope you come and join us there ;)
Discord channel invite for @newbieresteemday
Discord channel invite for @asapers
You will find them both to be very welcoming! They each have a "start here" channel that will get you going. Please let me know if you get stuck!
Thank you again for an awesome poem here!
Thank you for your kind words and encouragement. I will have to check out @asapers and discord. I am still on that uphill side of the learning curve!
haha I hear you loud and clear. I can still remember that feeling very well. Just so you know, in both groups there are so many people learning how this all works; they actually both have a spot for 'steemit educational posts' too. I won't throw too much more at you, but there's one other group called @greetersguild who are wonderfully helpful as well.
I guess I'm saying, that you don't need to be alone in all of this, and all the people I've met in the three groups are amazingly kind and helpful. I wouldn't be where I am after just 3 1/2 months on steemit if it wasn't for all of them!
I'm barely two weeks behind you then, @lynncoyle1! I'm so glad you invited me - I had only heard rumors of Discord channels, but really didn't know enough to try them.
But you know how they say: when the student is ready, the teacher will appear... even if the teacher is a whole group of them!
How true @viking-ventures, teachers do appear right when you need them!
I think when we unconsciously become open to an idea, the right people appear :)
haha that's awesome! I guess the timing was right :)
I'm glad I invited you too!