Like I said, he loves growth, and not only in plants and gardens. He loves to see development, in our home, in our community, in cities, etc. etc. He truly desires to be the best home teacher and Elder’s Quorum President he can. His greatest desire as EQ president is to help the brethren be the best they can be as individuals, husbands and fathers. It’s not just a facade, it is how he feels. Hmmm…don’t know if that is the homebody aspect of it.

Kim’s attitude at work and in his calling is the same as at home. I don’t been he wants to rebrand himself at home, lol. He just likes learning, doing, experiencing more. And so, seeing his children grow and learn and experience new things is something he enjoys. He teaches them French in our homeschool. He does Science experiments with them too. He is teaching Sinéad how to ride her bike. He built our fire pit and loves to cook things over the fire.

I don’t know if this is expounding more about his homebody characteristics. As a husband I honestly could not ask for better, because he not only loves and supports me, he encourages me to challenge myself, mentally, intellectually and physically. He supports me in my role as a mother, he supports me in my callings, he is patient when I am not (and yes I am less patient than he is).

That’s part of the rebranding. It won’t be taken down, but it will change. I’m not sure to what degree yet.

I don’t plan on being a steward forever, and I am not going to rebrand myself as a steward. The rebranding will be more about less focus on web design skills, and more focus on other (more employable) skills.

Related posts are created automatically. With over 700 posts, I’m not sure I’d be able to keep track of them all to do it by hand.

The “social place” was intentional. Much of what I have done here was to encourage new visitors to not only come here but to return and to participate in old threads/posts.

So, we all know you designed this OT template, which we love (me and all my subjects) I love the look but I’m more caught up in the functional design, several features are quite remarkable about it.

I find the list of 100 recent comments to be innovative. It certainly invites me to read what people are talking about and talk back. It makes it easy to see if discussion has moved ahead in any thread I’ve been following on OT.

I’m also fascinated by the related posts feature. Today there’s only one relation, but often there are five. Do you chose them yourself, or do they generate automatically from word patterns? A forum I used to post on did related posts automagically somehow, but they weren’t usually so pertinent as your related posts are.

Which brings us to one of the central enigmas about Kim. He’s a community builder, a creator of networks. A fomenter of discussion (with the famous five-line provocative posts.) He reaches out to new participants, always welcoming them, thanking them for commenting. Advocate for society Canadian, with the blogroll and the dot ca. OTOH the other side of Kim is the homebody. Mostly holding discussions with his Mary and in-laws. Interested in things family. Taking a vacation to some place with a trail, taking pictures of his kids. Very much a homebody with a trusted circle.

I’d be very interested in Kim’s comments about how he created a real social space in this blog, was that intentional or just happened or how he comes up with his good ideas.

And his or Mary’s comments on his homebody/Patrick Henry-ness, if either feel like it.

I guess I’m surprised you call this rebranding. I only think of a person as being branded when he or she is selling their creativity. A financial steward I don’t think of as a brand. A steward must convey integrity and resourcefullness, but other than that, he could hang-glide or not as he pleases. A hang-gliding designer conveys something about the way he designs.

Does this mean you’ll take down the hot pepper site because it doesn’t fit in with the image you want to project?