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Something’s been gnawing at me lately. I know I have regular readers here (at least 23 according to Feedburner) and I’m so glad that I’m a part of the blogs you choose to read. I’ve always said that I write from the heart, but it’s encouraging to know that I’m not writing just to myself. Or else I could just keep a journal under my pillow and keep it all private. So first and foremost, if you are reading this, let me offer you a soulful thanks (as my friend Rosa would say, Mahalo nui loa). My hope is that my writing brightens your day and encourages you to consider things differently in your life, career, and organization.

Now comes my humble request. If you are a regular reader (or even a new reader), please come out of the shadows and de-lurk. I’d love to learn more about you and your experiences; what brings you joy in your life and where you are on your path toward Soulful Work. It’s all about you. You can respond in the comments section here or if you prefer, just send me an email. I don’t bite and won’t try to sell you a set of encyclopedias.

I can’t wait to hear from you.

I wanted to announce the creation of my companion blog to the Alchemy of Soulful Work, The Menagerie of Frivolous Fascinations. It’s important for me to keep Alchemy focused on career and work issues, and yet I have all these other interests in my life that I want to share. I hope you’ll check it out.

Welcome to the new home of the Alchemy of Soulful Work. If you came here via the old blogger address, please adjust your bookmarks or RSS reader. I’m using Feedburner to track my readership so click the link over there on the right side and you should have a set of options for how you want to subscribe. I pretty sure its easy to add this new address to Bloglines, My Yahoo, and other web-based readers. Ultimately, I hope that the transition is fairly easy for me as well as you.

With every transition, there are challenges (transitions seems to be a theme for me lately, huh?). There’s the tricky business of how to deal with
all the previous links to this address hanging out there on other
blogs. I’m considering inserting a meta tag that will automatically
redirect to the new address. The only problem is that it won’t be
permalink specific. Say you click a link to a post from January; the
redirect won’t take you to the corresponding post in TypePad but to the
main page. Any other solutions from folks who made the transition before?

Also, I’ve always preferred
the TypePad method of comments and trackbacks. Another
challenge is that I’m afraid I’m going to lose all the wonderful
comments made in the past few months. I figure one option is to
manually insert each comment in the appropriate place which will take
some time. If anyone knows of a shortcut, please send me an email or
comment below.

So, if you’re a loyal reader, thanks for finding me again. And if you’re a new reader, thanks for visiting and I hope you come back often. Either way, please participate through comments. One voice alone can create a beautiful solo; but a group of soulful voices can create incredible harmonies, adding rich textures and new ways of approaching familiar songs. I’m excited to hear what you bring to the topics of Soulful Work.