Introducing Wild Wanderer!

in introduceyourself •  7 years ago 

Hello wonderful world of steemians!

I am excited to share this platform with such an involved community where people from all walks of life can gather to be heard, to contribute in conversations and experiences!

I am a photographer, mother, and dancer who is not afraid to follow my heart and my intuition. I live in Johannesburg, South Africa close enough to the city and the country to enjoy the best of both.

So many things in this beautiful life captivate me ranging from portrait and nature photography, to parenting, child development, mindfulness, fire flow arts, dancing, and even gardening and nutrition.

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My amazing little family

Learning continuously is one of my highest values (I'm a bit of a nerd actually). I've currently been quite taken by topics which I avoided in the past - things like human rights, libertarianism and even philosophy and poetry.

Wildly wandering from idea to idea, skill to skill, conversation to conversation and now the wonderful world of steemit.

Post below your current interests, your favorite book and your steemit page - I look forward to connecting with you!

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Augrabies Falls, May 2011 - one of my favourite landscapes that I've taken

“This will not be so much the history as the mystery of my life, and I write it neither to edify you nor to justify myself, but to entertain both of us.”
-Alan Watts, In My Own Way, prologue

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Welcome mama, I'm at the steemitmamas discord too and found you from there.

You have a beautiful family. Looking forward to your posts and my gosh, we have another photographer in steemit! This place is good for finding talented people but also be on the lookout for unscrupulous characters. Make sure to watermark your pics :)

See you around mama! I have a few friends I found from SA and they are wonderful people.

Thanks @lovenfreedom, I will keep that in mind! I look forward to getting to know you! See you on discord 💃🏻

Welcome to Steemit! ;)
Alan Watts is great

Ah! I love his writing so much!

Welcome, welcome, welcome it is truly awesome to have you here!

The community here is awesome for those who take the time to form bonds, friendships and engage in the right way...You sound just the kind of person the community needs more of. You will come across many negative views of Steem on your travels here, in my experience they are usually from people here for other reasons than interacting and sharing with like minded peeps.

My favourite aspect of the platform is that I can talk to and make friendships with people from Venezuela, Australia, Macedonia, India and indeed South Africa...That is something very special indeed and something I cherish about the blockchain.

For truly community minded Steemians, I highly recommend joining Steemit servers on Discord...For a while I believed I did not need another platform in my life but WOW! I have made some amazing friends there...Real friends. Obviously you should start with @poeticsnake 's server where you can share and promote your posts, chat with some cool peeps including the slithering Steemian herself, It's also an amazing place to get all your questions answered and often join online Steemit radio shows highly recommended.

Congratulations on being Snekked!

If you ever need help or advice, please do not hesitate, I am always around!

May your journey be fun, fruitful and fulfilling

So wonderful to be here! I was reluctant at first but I'm blown away already! I will definitely jump onto Discord as well - it looks like an amazing social platform! And wow, I didn't even know there were Steemit radio shows! Thanks so much for taking the time to educate me <3

I am so excited!!!

Oh there is so much more than we initially see. Many of the radio shows (and visual shows too) have amazing giveaways as well as fab info and coaching and workshops, from up-votes, to coins, to physical items etc.
If you need any discord pointers or recommended groups to join, just give e a shout, my name is the same there too. :)

Welcome to Steemit. You have a few from your country here on Steemit. Glad that you ae here.

Thank you! I see you are into yoga and permaculture! Those are also great interests of mine! I look forward to reading your articles!

Great!! Looking forward to getting to know you more. You might be interested in this discord server. A lot of homesteaders and permaculture people are hanging out in there
https://discord.gg/QWMJZW

Thanks! I’m still new to discord but I’ve joined and I will see you on the chat!

Hi, I'm @edosweet. I stopped by to give you a warm welcome to the Steemit platform. I wish you good luck and many good things as you join us.

Thank you :)

Hello there !!! I'm Ireen from teammalaysia🤗 Welcome to our steemit world. There's so much to share & gain. Let's follow each other & keep sharing fun, exciting & fabulous interest.

To start of this lasting journey together, I've just upvoted your post. Keep on writing interesting posts on Steemit and follow me @ireenchew. I 💖 everything about 🍾🛍️💍

Thank you so much for taking the time to connect with me! I look forward to reading your posts!!

Awesome to find a fellow South African on Steemit! gave you a follow and looking forward to seeing more of your stuff!

Thanks a mil! Right back at you ;)

Welcome! I got to visit Cape Town back in December and had a wonderful trip. A very beautiful country.

Oh and you got to see the most beautiful side (in my opinion) of our country! If it wasn’t for their wet winters (and all my friends and family being up here in Johannesburg) I’d move there - it’s a photographers dream!

Welcome to steemit, there is space for everyone here including wild wanderers.

Haha! Good to hear :P

Lovely little intro post and it's always great to see more South Africans joining the community.

Enjoy the ride. Looking forward to your posts :)

Thanks for the support! Great to be here - what a cool community!

Welcome to Steemit! South Africa! How cool!
Looking forward to seeing what interesting things you get into! You have a beautiful family! ♥

Thank you so much! And likewise :)

A warm welcome in steemit community . I really like your photo portrait . I see one image , so much love .. have a lovely days .

Thank you so much! Portrait photography is a big passion of mine including self portraits :)

Welcome to steemit @wildwanderer, you have a gorgeous family, enjoy the journey!
I see you're a dancer - ballet?
I love the phrase you left at the end, not familiar with the author. I enjoy reading biographies & mostly do food blogging, talking about bnb hosting, inspirational and health issues, etc etc wherever life takes me.

Thanks for your support Lizelle 💜 Not a ballet dancer unfortunately but I’d have loved to at least have done contemporary dancing but I’m only trained in belly dancing and fire dancing 🔥💃🏻🔥. I look forward to following your posts! That quote is from Alan Watts’ autobiography 🤗

Wow, fire dancing, that sounds hot ;) Look forward to reading about that one of these days!

Wonderful to meet you @wildwanderer looking forward to chatting on #teamsouthafrica

Thanks Joan! I’m excited to be here and engage with this awesome community!

Hi! Welcome!

That is one beautiful falls picture but of course your family picture is much more beautiful 😊

Happy to have you on Steemit and hope you will stay for good.

Cheers,
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Thanks so much! I really appreciate the feedback! Your page looks scrumptious - I look forward to reading those Indonesian recipes especially!!!

Welcome @wildwanderer lovely first intro post. You have a beautiful family. I'm interested in fire flow arts...what is that?? Good to see you are already on @steemitmamas it's a great community to be in xx

Thank you 😊 I’ll definitely be posting a bit about fire flow arts but basically it is dance/movement with fire props such as fire poi, staves, fans or hula hoops (amongst others). It pushes your co-ordination skills and once you get in the “flow” of moving fluidly with a combination of moves and dance, it becomes quite meditative and rather magical 😉🔥

ah sounds amazing...what a talent, I would love to do that.

Hi, nice to meet you :) You have a beautiful family.
My current interests are trying new foods, learning Chinese, hula-hooping and giving blogging a go! My favourite book is A Complicated Kindness by Miriam Toews.

Thanks Zoë! (My name is Deirdré by the way :) ) I look forward to following your adventures too! Hula-hooping!!! YAY! I know there is so much online to teach you but this lady is awesome: http://learn.hoopingclasses.com/ (Safire) . Thanks for sharing your favourite book - I'll have to check it out!

Love your family. Love to dance. Love South Africa. #LaurenSouthern #InformationWar

Thank you so much!

How are you?

I’m well thanks! Do you hang out on discord?

I am on Discord sometimes.

Awesome! There are quite a number of South Africans on Steemit - a good crowd.
I love the landscape panorama you've shared. I hope you share lots more.

I'm a writer/photographer/graphic artist myself. I hope you'll check out my work, especially if you like romance stories at all - though I will be starting serializing another one soon (like in about a month) which is not quite so romance focused. ... but still part of the same series.

Oh, I came in from the Snekked post.

I love following artists such as yourself! Thank you so much for your feedback! Anywhere else I can follow you online?

Thanks for telling me I got snekked! That's pretty exciting :P heehee

Besides following my blog here, you could follow my A'mara Books page on Facebook. (That way you can get notifications, if you like - something that Steemit really should implement!)
I also have Viking Visual on Facebook, though I haven't been doing quite as much on that these past few months while working on my writing almost full time.

Awesome! I'm following ;) (doesn't social media totally make us all sound like stalkers?) P.S your blog link didn't come through..

For on Steemit, just click on my user name. That works with everyone here. :-)
And thanks!

Oh duh :P haha.. I thought you were linking to another blog - I forgot that this is also called a blog (blonde moment)

I suspect that even non-blondes are allowed the occasional blonde moment. (Though I have enough Scandinavian blood to warrant an honorary blonde status anyway...)

Phew!! ;)

Either stalkers or one huge game of ring-around-the-roses...

nice photo, welcome

Thanks :)

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Hey !! Welcome to steemit!!
Well!! I'm a newbie.
Here is the link to my post. Upvote if you like the content. thanks!

https://steemit.com/creativity/@cherrythinks/echoes-poem-2-unfolding-life

You seem to be a wanderer who has found what they are looking for...

Lol! Constant wandering and exploring is my passion, whether ideas or places, it is the same :) so yes, I suppose I will always be happy with what I've found, but my appetite never fully satisfied ;)