Dear Steemians or those interested in Steemit in the Pacific Northwest corner of the United States,
We are doing the first meet-up in the area and would love for you to come! Tell your friends in the area.
It will be in Portland, Oregon, Saturday, Feb. 24th 3pm at Hopworks Urban Brewery on N. Williams, http://hopworksbeer.com/eat/bikebar/ (thank you HUB for the header photo)
Life is full and busy and I know that it can feel hard to find time to add in another thing but I'll just say a few things that I hope will encourage you to do it anyway.
It's worth the time to get to know your Steemit community, we're all a part of something very ground-breaking and the more bonded we are, the more power we have.
The first time I put together a meet-up was exactly a year ago on a trip to NYC. I had been connecting, commenting and such with several steemit friends who lived there and was curious to meet them in person so 6 of us got together at a coffee shop. I remember the exciting crackling energy I felt meeting face to face these people who I had already gotten to know to some degree but not in the way that we often do in life. Somehow all of us being on this cutting edge decentralized platform that we barely understood yet it had pulled us in anyway gave us a kinship and common purpose.
The fact that communications on Steemit seem to cut through the masks that often get in the way of connection gave us a bond so our conversations were easy and exciting and this experience made the platform come alive. And when I discovered that not only did I like these people digitally, but that I really liked and respected them face to face, the power of Steemit made a quantum expansion in my life.
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, meAnd then again last week while I was in New York again I met up with a few of these same Steemians plus a few more friends and it was again so great and at the very least a very worthwhile experience. I consider these people close friends for real, not just within some other unrelated category of my life.
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It's worth the time to get to know your Steemit community, we're all a part of something very ground-breaking and the more bonded we are, the more power we have.
I hope to see you there and can't wait to meet those of you already coming: 
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Please RSVP in the comments so I know how large a table to get for us. Looking forward to it, see you there....
First post about this a few weeks ago:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@natureofbeing/calling-all-pacific-northwest-u-s-steemians-for-a-meet-up
