I almost decided not to post. I am a white, male, heterosexual Christian minister from the United States. Some may wrongly assume from that statement that I am not a big fan of diversity. Others may sadly decide their tolerance and love of diversity do not extend to people like me. Which is curious because Jesus was teaching diversity and reconciliation long before it was cool. But I get it and am okay with that.
I am a teacher in a seminary in Mexico City (mostly teach New Testament, but also have taught exegesis and introduction to philosophy). I am married to a Honduran woman, and we have two adult kids. I am an avid reader who, beyond the two vast topics just mentioned, also enjoys books on productivity, other self-help books, and the history of ideas and inventions. I was briefly a comic book artist just out of high school. Previously a missionary in Ecuador for 5 years. I would love to travel, but lack of money keeps me from doing too much anymore. Not a big fan of politics, and am tired of hearing about all the fighting. I have been happily getting along with people very different from me all my life, with people whom I disagree with on fundamental levels, so it is hard for me to see why others have to make it so difficult. I love TiddlyWiki because it helps me organize my thoughts and see them in new ways, and it gives me a way to publish free mini html databases on various topics in Spanish. I am not an original thinker so much as someone who likes to collect and organize helpful ideas and share them with others. I discovered TiddlyWiki when I was investigating Moodle for online courses. People using Moodle were talking about TW integration a lot at that moment. After my learning curve with TiddlyWiki classic I wrote a tutorial TiddlyWiki for the Rest of Us [1], a showcase of TiddlyWikis in the wild [2] and a list of plugins called TiddlyVault [3]. I had hoped TW would get discovered and loved and used in the mainstream. But years ago, when browsers changed and forced TiddlyWiki "5" to come up with convoluted ways to save changes, I realized that would never happen. Onboarding had already been hard enough. Early 2018, I think, is when I decided to do a version of TiddlyVault for TW5. It started out just for me, but snowballed, and is now the TiddlyWiki Toolmap [4]. Now here I am still wanting to know how a brother can be part of a yam. I need closure! [1] http://www.giffmex.org/twfortherestofus.html [2] http://giffmex.tiddlyspot.com/ [3] http://tiddlyvault.tiddlyspot.com/ [4] https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM On Tuesday, October 8, 2019 at 7:25:10 PM UTC-5, TonyM wrote: > > Hey all, > > I love the Diversity in our community. If you are comfortable *let us > know a little more about yourself*., > > *I will start.* > > > - *I am an Australian Living in Sydney, Born to Australian parents I > am a 5th Generation (Non Indigenous Australian) who carries a Swiss > italian > surname. * > - *Mostly Various peoples from the UK are in my family tree.* > - *Australia is close to Asia so we have a lot of asian and south east > asian friends, and any asian restaurant to choose from, amongst other > nationalities from all over the world.* > - *I Grew up in Australia, Papua New Guinea and New Zealand. With my > High school in Country NSW (My State).* > - *I have traveled to 20+ Countries and have met people from 50+ > countries. I love diversity and learning from others.* > - *I speak a little french because my partner is a parisien living in > Australia for more than 30 years.* > > > *Why should we Celebrating Diversity?* > > - Because its fun > - Diversity is healthy > - Who know the connections we may discover when sharing > - Building tolerance is an antidote to partisanship. > - We are a diverse community > > Regards > Tony > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/fa6a4ec3-bd66-46e0-abc3-81622239edb6%40googlegroups.com.
