Honored

Well, it's a rainy day and was I not very happy with my post today and I'm tired and generally just a big whine and then along came The Teach and infused some sunshine and gratitude into my the situation. This graphically beautiful award was created by Greatfullivin at the Gratitude Journal blog. I'll let you go visit her site for the full description, but here's an exceprt from her description:

"... Gratitude ...is not about a passive attitude. It’s about learning. It’s about seeing things different, having new eyes! Gratitude is about keeping that happy positive outlook on life…even when things don’t go the way we want them to. It is not about giving in, lying down or accepting everybody else’s rules it’s about making your own rules!... Gratitude IS Attitude!"

Anyway, many thanks to The Teach for thinking of me and reminding me on a day when I was feeling more frustrated than grateful that I can choose how I feel about life, living ... and even today. And many thanks also to everybody who visits Raven's Nest and leaves a kind word of reassurance or recognition.

I'd like to pass this award on to a few special people. I haven't been around the blogosphere for that long but am choosing five people who seem to me to embody generosity and gratitude in their daily living and who have been very kind to me in my daily blogging.

Dianne at Forks Off the Road

Jay at Bailey's Buddy

Linda at These are the Days

Michael at Michael Manning.TV

Kim at Ramblings of 40-Something Empy Nester


There are so many others who are deserving but I can't choose everyone. Awards make me really happy and also kind of anxious, so I have not yet really dealt with another award I received in the past week - the E for Excellent Award - that Dianne so generously nominated me for (and compared me to Katherine Hepburn of all people... how cool is that?) So... I thought I'd pass THAT award on to the following people:


To Sandy Carlson and Andree - for One Single Impression, a blog which offers a weekly haiku prompt and spurred my imagination and creativity with one word each week.

Billy at Chapter and Verse already has an E is for Excellence, but he's such a good poet - and he compliments my poetry. I love compliments.

Michael at Everything in Particular because he has a great sense of humor and a passion for supporting his friends.

Michelle at Full-Soul-Ahead because she shares from her heart and it is a heart full of love.


Guess that's it... Getting awards is an exhausting responsibility and very hard on me because I want to give one to EVERYBODY so nobody's feelings get hurt. I didn't add my wonderful nieces to this list, though I added them in my heart.

Diana has three blogs: Vegan Girl, High Tech Survivor and Food Scout which is an awesome website with a blog attached to it. And Cindy has three also: Life in my Noggin, Team Wines and Sc2toggers which she and Linda (snoopmurph) are not (been very quiet there lately) co-writing.