Welcome or welcome back to Kitchen Table Kibitzing, a community series that posts nightly at 5:00 Pacific, 6:00 Mountain, 7:00 Central, 8:00 Eastern. remembrance and I came up with the idea for this series during Netroots Nation 13.
As we envision it, KTK is a community for those who wish to share part of their evening around a virtual kitchen table with kossacks who are caring and supportive of one another. So bring your stories, jokes, photos, funny pics, music, interesting videos (hey, palantir!), and so forth. Or just say "Hi" if you've had a long day and are too exhausted to participate more actively. We would also appreciate links—including quotations—to diaries, news stories, and books that you think this community would appreciate.
Please note that pie fights will be unwelcome in this community, just as in most other series at DKos. There's lots of space at the rest of the site for fighting with other Democrats, progressives, and liberals, and we don't want those battles dragged into this series.
Finally, readers may notice that most who are posting diaries and comments in this series already know one another to some degree, but that definitely does not mean that newcomers will be excluded or unwelcome. We're happy to welcome guests to our kitchen table, and hope to make some new friends as well.
I was pleased to be asked to host Kitchen Table Kibitzing during its kickoff week. It posts at a time when people are done with the day's labors (except for night workers) and can reflect on the day's events both personal and in the world at large. The success is measurable; comments during its four days of existence have numbered 159,80,140,and 57. In addition some very interesting other diaries have been posted to the group. So welcome to our cozy, private, and ever expanding corner of Daily Kos.
I found one kitchen table that looked particularly inviting:
It's a simple table; people might want to add their own adornments and foods. It's still cool and foggy here so I think I can get away with this:
I'll light the fire, you put the flowers in the vase that you bought today.
Food, flowers, facts, fun, or philosophy.....we're open for business.