{"id":892,"date":"2006-02-14T15:57:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-14T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/?p=892"},"modified":"2019-02-16T22:06:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T03:06:09","slug":"welcome-to-wordcurrents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/14\/welcome-to-wordcurrents\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to wordcurrents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">Monday, April 27, 2026<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>* * My new poems here to date: <strong>1,153* *<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/2006\/02\/14\/welcome-to-wordcurrents\/img_2108\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4250\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-4250\" src=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108-150x98.jpg\" alt=\"img_2108\" width=\"150\" height=\"98\" srcset=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108-300x196.jpg 300w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108-768x503.jpg 768w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108-458x300.jpg 458w, https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/02\/IMG_2108.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The header above is out my back window just about dawn.<\/p>\n<p>wordcurrents is on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wordcurrents\/\">Facebook<\/a> now.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Also new:<\/span> You can now &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Share<\/span>&#8221; and &#8220;<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Like<\/span>&#8221; my posts. Please do so. You will see the buttons below each post.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, I have taken my own advice and compiled a collection of my favourite poems from this site. I did this by clicking on the &#8220;<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wpfp-img\" title=\"Favorite\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-favorite-posts\/img\/heart.png?w=640\" alt=\"Favorite\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" \/><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Add to favorites<\/span>&#8221; link below the archive version \u00a0of each poem that I like a lot. (If you don&#8217;t see the link, click on the post&#8217;s title to get to the archive version.) Each selection is stored in your own list, accessible in the &#8220;Lists&#8221; menu, above.<\/p>\n<p>If you are a subscriber, your list is stored in the site database. If you are not a subscriber, the list is stored on your computer in a cookie, which deletes your list if you delete the cookie. All lists are private; even I can&#8217;t access any but my own. If you do have a list, I would be pleased to hear about it. Cheers.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"read it\" href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/pe8hX-Sj\" target=\"_self\"><strong>&#8220;Popular Posts&#8221;<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 I am amazed to discover that some of my posts have been viewed multiple tens of thousands of times in the past six years, since I enabled the counter. (see column to the right).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Miscellaneous<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was searching for my sonnets here, and discovered they are not easily come by. Here is a link to a page that starts the list of forty-eight sonnets. There are just a few on each screen, and you have to follow the link to a newer or older group: <a href=\"https:\/\/riverwriter.ca\/wordcurrents\/9-my-blogging-process\/making-sense-of-all-this\/\">Sonnets<\/a> Other types are discoverable through the Lists menu, above.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>What do you think?<\/strong> Please comment on any post.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To subscribe, use\u00a0 the email subscription facility to the right.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* * My new poems here to date: 1,153* * The header above is out my back window just about dawn. wordcurrents is on Facebook now. Also new: You can now &#8220;Share&#8221; and &#8220;Like&#8221; my posts. Please do so. 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