As of September 2010, we have welcomed several hundred thousand readers from over 184 different countries, in thousands of cities, since we launched this site on February 9, 2006. We now have an incredible number of links, tags and blogged comments associated with the site. Clearly, The Porpoise Diving Life© continues to make waves with a broad and diverse global audience. We are humbled by all this.
Special thanks to Jim Henderson at Off-The Map for "getting it" and writing "The 41st Day Syndrome," as well as reading the manuscript. The encouragement from Jeff Jacobson and Jim Palmer is duly noted and deeply appreciated.
We remain particularly grateful to Charlie Wear at Next-Wave for publishing the excerpt from the manuscript, and the article in October 2006 entitled "Reality For The Rest of Us." Muchos gracias to the crew at www.theooze.com for publishing the poem. Clearly, this has driven a lot of traffic to the site. The same goes to John O’Keefe at www.ginkworld.net. Whole lotta love to Tony Jones at Emergent for publishing the interview "On Porpoise" with me on May 18, 2006, and the article entitled "Reality For The Rest of Us" in October 2006. Last but not least, to The Tall Skinny Kiwi, Andrew Jones...thanks for ALL you do for God's children, including the encouragement you have sent our way.
Others who have provided encouragement along the way, and those I have drawn inspiration from include Brian McLaren, Dan Gilliam, Rob Woodrum, Darren King, Aaron Sutherland, Robby McAlpine, Paul Kuritz, Becky Garrison, Adam Newton, Steve Taylor, Jon Plunkett, Alan Hartung, Phil Wyman, Christian Jahnsen, Sheryl Fullerton, Ingrid Perlongo, Pete & Samie Greig, Craig Bubeck, Mike & Dawn Higgins, Sally James, Malcolm Hawker, Tammy Schoch, Tony Lowe, Barbara LeGere, Nada, Sparky, Jeremy DelRio, Pamela Mann, David & Beth Dear, Michele Kim, Fernando & Meg Alvarez, Mike Morrell, Jason Clark, John Abbott, David Cashmore, Monte Wolverton, Dorothy Clemons, Lydia Schoch, Laura Urista, Darcy White, Amanda Vargas, Joe & Janet DiChiro and Tim Donahue.
We are grateful to those in ministry and education who have requested reprint permission to use the material in the classroom, small groups, encouragement for a friend, co-worker, church, classroom, family member and just plain life.
For those who have submitted prayer requests, articles, thoughts, encouragement, thanks and commentary...once again, thank you!
We deeply appreciate all those who have tagged/linked this site to their blog and/or site. For those who have contributed content, thanks a bunch.
We hope you will continue to share your awareness of this site with others, so they know that there is a "reality for the rest of us."
After all, It's all about us....God, me and you.
Dive in! Get wet. There's more to living a life of faith with the God of More beyond the net!
Bless you,
Bill Dahl
Author, Creator and Managing Editor