Literature and Culture has nominated us for the Beautiful Blogger Award. What does this mean to us? We did some free association and jotted down the words that came to mind. We are: happy, elated, honored, humbled, gratified and grateful. The WordPress community is extraordinarily warm, diverse, open, helpful and giving. Enough with the superlatives, and on to the rules!
Beautiful Blogger Award
They are:
- Thank the person who nominated you. Thanks again, Literature and Culture.
- Post the award image to your page.
- Tell seven facts about yourself. I’m doing the honors on this one.
- October is my favourite month. I love the warm days and cool nights, falling leaves, hot apple cider, the smell of cinnamon…
- Breakfast is my favourite meal.
- I have green eyes.
- I hate everything about coffee.
- I am not a morning person. I am cranky and obtuse before 11:00 AM. This has nothing to do with my refusal to drink coffee. Honest.
- I have the chronic inability to read one book at a time. I’m a juggler: I prefer to have 6 or 7 going continuously. When I finish a book, I add another to the rotation.
- I am obsessed with list-making. I create multiple lists a day, for a variety of things. I made a list about this list.
- Nominate 15 other bloggers, and let them know about the nomination. I’m going to slack a bit on this part. Not because I am lazy, but because there are so many lovely blogs I enjoy reading on a daily basis that I cannot choose just 15. Not today, anyway. Chalk it up to a lack of coffee!
A Small Press Life: Books. Art. Writing. Life. Tea. 
Congratulations on the award, and more so, on your feelings about picking out other bloggers. I think the concept of identifying other bloggers is a wonderful one that promotes our reading other’s posts. But it seems there is blogging creep, in that each award seems to require an ever greater number of award nominees. Why not let it be to say, thanks for the award, and check out one or two other bloggers along the way. 15, no matter how well read, seems a bit much.
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Thank you! I won’t lie-I am always pleased to receive these awards. It is very sweet and nice; it’s an honor. Although I usually nominate other people in turn, I don’t feel beholden in keeping to the number stated in “the rules”. But I also don’t like doing so by rote. For this particular award, I just wanted to thank the wonderful community that keeps us all going. Next time, if I am so lucky, I will probably pass it on to a handful of blogs I absolutely love! I’ve also been thinking about creating an award to give to individual writers/bloggers for particularly moving or thought-provoking posts, as opposed to blogs in general.
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well said
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Thank you!
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