ALL A TWITTER

photo by Ester Vargas

I can tell you this:  On Twitter Katy Perry is number one.  But on Instagram Selena Gomez is king.   Taylor Swift you ask?  No. 3 on Twitter, with only 72.8 million followers.  What's a girl to do?   President Obama Tweets behind her at No. 4 in followers, and ... Well I could go on.   Just know that yes, Bieber and Rihanna, are heavy in the mix also.  Me, I'm in a race for 1,628,999 place on Instagram.  I'm keepin' it real.  

Principle in the type:  "We're spread.  We have so many more opportunities to connect with people, and yet --  to connect deeply and vertically and all the layers of things that take time and focus and shutting off everything, --the tv [your texting, your typing] .... there's so much competition for eyeballs --but really, there's so much competition for your soul.  Where do you connect?  Where do you put your feeling, and your love, and your need and your yearning and all that?   It isn't satisfied--no matter how far you go--in that wide network. ... you have to go deep for it."         Meryl Streep   

INSTA-CONFIDENCE

photo by Paul Sableman

Over the last school year, kids at East Valley High School, in Spokane Washington received daily compliments courtesy of an anonymous Instagram account.  It's a heartwarming story.  "The account began reposting students’ selfies with incredibly thoughtful captions, and eventually made its way through the yearbook, sending individual shoutouts to" almost 700 students.    news story      
Anybody want to be this Instagram account owner, when you grow up?  

Principle in the type:  "There are those who wake up every morning dreading to go to school, or even to a Church activity, because they worry about how they will be treated. You have the power to change their lives for the better. ... be a builder and give them a lift. Think less of yourself and more about the power you have to assist others, even those within your own family."    Joe J. Christensen