Hey Again, Steemitizens!
If you've been following my work with the PAL Network/Minnow Support Project MSP WAVES RADIO streaming radio station on steemit, please be advised that after achieving a roster of nearly 30 unique weekly shows, hosted by nearly 35 wonderful hosts, and having accomplished over 10,000 listening hours across more than 20 countries on 6 continents, I have resigned my role as founder and GM of the station and will no longer be hosting shows there, leaving it in the capable hands of the competent and enthusiastic team I assembled to maintain it's daily operations.
I have also stepped down from my leadership role in the now nearly 5000 member community I helped to build there over the last 4 months. Management and growth oriented disagreements with peers on the senior core team lead to this decision and I wish them the best of luck in their continued endeavors.
But I am not finished on steemit yet. In fact, I am really just getting started.
Inspired by the lives of my own parents, and their tireless decades of service, mission and local outreach work providing clothing and services by force multiplying the resources of more than a dozen churches and hundreds of volunteers over the years, to carry out a mission of helping and empowering the disadvantaged in our own community, lead to my decision to attempt to use modern tools to carry on their work on a global scale, to the best of my own abilities.
I remember being put in a laundry basket like a playpen in musty church basements while they sorted and folded donated clothes and our home often being piled full of hefty bags full of such clothing that mother would tirelessly launder and prepare for distribution. Later I would in turn drive their station wagon hauling loads of clothes to the distribution center myself as a teenager in High School before leaving home as a young adult. Hundreds of thousands of man hours were consumed by the volunteers of that effort and as children we grew up surrounded by it, involved in it, and it would set a tone for our entire lives.
My parents, both now passed on, were eventually recognized for their service work by the Mayor of Vienna, Virginia about two decades ago as citizens of the year, for their efforts, but they never did it for the glory and it was often a very thankless, exhausting job that very much consumed a good part of not only their lives, but also those of us, their children who grew up involved ourselves in various ways, exposed to these values and now, ingrained in us as we live out our adult lives ourselves.
A recent pilot test project I ran with the brave, honorable and admirable inspiration and then the subsequent assistance of @malos10 here on steemit, to raise funds to feed disadvantaged people in economically ravaged Venezuela has been a resounding success so far. It continues and gave me the seed of the idea to go on to work with other venerable members of the steemit community I am rallying and assembling, to build a truly force multiplying boots-on-the ground task force of locally located, trustworthy and service oriented individual and groups to deliver food, clothing, shoes and life changing services to others in need wherever, whenever, and however possible.
Stay tuned as I, with the help of other volunteers I enlist upon the way, begin to build out and execute this cryptocurrency driven, block chain transparency backed initiative with the ultimate goal to lie in constructing an organization that touches lives, one at a time, such that a rising tide, might lift all ships, one person, one day, at a time.
In the meantime, in between time, I will be hosting my final farewell radio show on MSP Waves Radio next monday night, at midnight UTC0/8PM EST and I would be honored if you would join me as I discuss where I have been with the steemit based MSP/PALnetwork community and where I am going from here, into the future.
May you all be blessed with love in abundance in your own lives.
Here is a link to the official MSP/MSP Waves Radio transition team announcement about my resignation and subsequent departure from the Minnow Support Project/PAL Network & MSP Waves Radio organizations:
https://steemit.com/mspwaves/@minnowsupport/msp-waves-announcement
I will remain available by direct message on the PAL Network discord chat server for the foreseeable future and I am always available here by comment on my future and prior posts on steemit. Feel free to reach out if you have any inquiry whatsoever about this transition or if you just want to extend some friendship or support, which I will happy return, always, with pleasure.
Stay tuned for further announcements about my new service based initiative and steemit based outreach mission project, as details develop and logical junctures occur to make such announcements. I am here to serve. How can I be of service to you?
Thank you for your continued love, confidence and support, as I dive into something so much larger than myself.
Yours, in service,
Corky Kaericher
@SirCork on Steemit.com
Steem Block Chain Witness #88
Former PALNet Core Team Member and Founder/GM of MSP Waves Radio
http://steemit.com/@sircork
http://mspwaves.com
http://minnowsupportproject.com
Just like that, this post is over.
Full steem ahead, steemitizens!
@sircork
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How good this project, have our support @votovzla
Thank you, I heard about you from @isaria already. When I am better suited to help, and more established with this new endeavor, I will be in touch!
Thanks for your comments we will be watching for you, for your good project.
Anything contact us in the chat Discord
Thank you and likewise, I am sircork in discord as well!
Wish you well mate.
Thanks for everything - I'll watch what you get up to and help where I can 🌞
Thank you very much.
I wish I could have been around earlier to see that work! I'm glad I could catch it towards the end. Looking forward to seeing your future work here on Steemit :-)
Not sure there will be much more for me to do here. Plans are shifting. Do good things, be well.
I wish you well, my friend. Sad as it is that you are leaving, it is with great admiration that I wave you off.
Aw thanks D! Into the great wide open! I do have HUGE new initiative coming out later this week as well! Watch for it, I am very proud of what it is going to be!
Fly high. I'll be watching!
Sir, I'm very sad to hear this, all the great and sometimes incredibly interesting stories you told and the good tunes you played during my short permanence on the MSP network will be missed af. Wish you all the best, catch you on Monday \m/
I'm not sure Monday is going to happen, but thank you for the love and support. I wish things were different, but the other side is not willing to be accountable and so it's time for me to move on to more wholesome pastures.
I got no clues about what happened but I'm so sorry man, stay strong (even if there's no need to say that really)
Thank you.
Am excited what You will be creating next...
Good to see that everyone has taken "the high road", this shows the caliber of everyone involved.
Cheers !!
We had our moments, and such transitions rarely come without some bumps in the road or conflict, but in the end, I can say that the people of the PAL Network do their best with what they have and I myself, usually try to do the next right thing wherever I can whenever I can figure out what it is.
Cheers to you as well!
Best of luck man. Sorry to hear, but those things happen sometime and know you will be missed. Its awesome how youve created something so large in such a short time period.
I never did it alone, and I won't be doing this alone either. But thank you for your support and encouraging words!
I wanted to say this is sad to hear, but I pulled myself back and gave it some thought and I realized this is just life we move on and this is one of those moments. Nice to hear of the new project and looks really(well everything you do is always promising) and you deliver that is why you are so lovable.
If there is any way I can help moving forward would love to. Good luck down the road.
this is just life we move on and this is one of those moments
You said it. Very wise!
Thank you, The same offer is open. If there is ever anything I can do for you, say the words. Good luck on your road as well! We travel these roads together!
Guven tbe success of @msp-waves radio. I can't wait to see what you do next. HMU on Discord anytime.
Count on it, my esteemed friend!
Wow, I'm just learning about this. You have built something really cool with the MSP/PAL network and I'm sure your endeavors into steemit-driven charity work will be an equal success! Upvoted, resteemed and followed! Best of luck!
Thank you, but to be clear, I did not build the MSP/PAL network. I joined it, 16 days after it was born, and did rise to great influence and a position on the leadership team, as well as being the primary co-founder of the MSP Waves radio station project, within the MSP/PAL umbrella of projects, but I did not build the group. I merely participated heavily on the team that did so together.
All the same, thank you for your kind words and vote of confidence. I am also a witness with a vision of service, altruism and philanthropy enabled by the community within the steem ecosystem and I hope you will continue to observe me and do research on my outlook and the value I hope to offer back to the community and as such decide to consider me for one of your witness votes as well.
Thank you!
Hi there my well esteemed @sircork. :)
Glad to know that you've already climbed from position 90 to 88 on the witness list since the last time we talked. Haha ¡Excellent! :)
And count me in, as one of the most enthusiastic followers looking forward that you crystalize this so empathetic, generous and compassionate new project you are pursuing to concrete soon.
As for...
Yeah mate. I hear you and I understand you pretty well here. Over here in my neck of the woods, there is a popular saying that goes with something like this: "Too many hands in the soup make it purple"
So, I wish you that for your next project, you do not need to be surrounded by so many Master Chefs around to make a succulent soup feast. }:)
¡Good Luck! and count with my sympathy & support. ¡Upvoted!
I appreciate you and hear you and have grave concern for the situation in your country. I am working as fast and hard as I can to see what I and others like me can do together to try and send some help.
As for your quote: "Too many hands in the soup make it purple"
Hehe, if only you knew what that meant to me and I cannot explain it here.
Blessings to you and your family.
I am working on how we here on the block chain can help.
-SirCork
Hehehe, yeah mate. I've been in your current shoes so many times before. Hence, like you anglosaxons say: "Been there, done that"
That's why I tried to share with you the strongest and most eloquent popular saying from my country I could came up with, as the utmost accurate depiction, to let you know that I understand and understood very very well your wise decision. :)
ps. I'm afraid that by now, according our ages difference, you may well suspect, that you easily could have been my son at some time. :)
Cheers!!
Global truths resonate across oceans and continents, my friend.
As for age? As we say, Hahaha, and as you say, Jajaja, I am turning 49 in just 12 days. I doubt you are 96 ;)
Hahahaha & Jajajaja for that my dear friend. Even when I never been a premature swordsman delivering lunges right and left at an early age. And that I have not been a cheerful hummingbird going from flower to flower in my youth either. If my math is not lacking, I just would need have 65 to be your dad. LoL
But yeah, just so you stay unconcerned. Take a look at my past record. And click on the image to know the whole story. :)
And of course, I want to wish you a ¡Happy Birthday! in advance mate. Not gonna be that I will be without internet in the next few days and I miss the big celebration. :)
Cheers!!
That image is hilarious, and thank you for the birthday wishes!
May your internet and your state-by-state sex life, both ever be improving! :D
Best of Luck for your new challenge.
Thank you very much!
BOTTY and his team of autobots will be honoured to join your team, helping the persons in need. I wish this project grows thousands of time bigger and many more needful person can be helped.
BOTTY LOVES THIS PROJECT AND SIRCORK :]
One day at a time, my eager young bot. Humans move slower than CPUs, but just as systematically.
I have been following you and the work you have done with @malos10 in Venezuela. Very exciting that you are expanding globally! I support you and will be following. I voted for you as a witness. Upvoted and resteemed.
Thank you for your confidence and support. We are all in this together. Watch my blog for more announcements as the new project unfolds. <3
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I don't know what to say,I am truly sad to see and hear this!.
You will be missed bye more than just me!
I really am going to miss you on air man! you rocked!, I mean shit man you had Tim Cliff on air! ,and now I know he gives a phuq!!!
I will DM you,but will respect the lights!
wow Man ....Namaste!
Sometimes in the moment, life doesn't make sense and we can feel lost or let down, but in the bigger picture life is ever changing and the universe guides us to where we can most give and serve humanity.
I look forward to reading about your new project. Love & blessings to you and you new work.
I'm sure you are being guided to do this special project now and your parents will surely be so pleased and proud!
Wishing you much success and Divine guidance in your new project - yay to you Sir Cork, go, go, go and help those in need in person, this will surely be so so rewarding.
If i don't leave the chain completely. I'm in a contemplative mode. I feel called to do the new project, but I also feel called to just give up on the whole shitshow. We'll see. I already hit the power down button yesterday, but that means I've got a week to decide.
Leaving a family that betrays you and coping with a broken heart at the same time, make for tough decision making.
I've sent you a message on Steemit chat. I hear how you're feeling but when feelings are raw then time out is best before making any decisions. Of course I don't know what has happened, but I know Steemit has huge potential and that you will benefit from staying long term. Take a break if needed but don't go! Sending love and healing.
Thanks, I replied on the chat. Ugh steemit.chat is the worst app in the world.
Lol! We can switch to Discord if you prefer! :)
Found ya, right when we needed to talk! <3
Wonderful! I'm pleased you did! <3
As we discussed. Time will tell...
Yep, onwards and forwards wiser and stronger for it!
Thanks for the chat today.
You're welcome, it was lovely chatting to you. Loads of love and blessings <3
Likewise and thank you for all of it. Love and blessings to you as well! <3
Pleasure, happy to chat with you anytime. <3
Listening to you at this moment on #SteemSpeak. I really like what you have to say. Thanks for sharing information about yourself in this post. You now have a new loyal follower.
Good for you old son! Good principles. Don't let anyone ever tell you that what you are doing is wrong. That is just their opinion, and you know, Opinions are like armpits, we all have a couple and from time to time they both stink.
Well said Sarge, and well met. ;) Like I told them, my butthole isn't the slightest bit puckered.
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