Hello World!
Summer is here and so, the heat is making itself felt when just a week ago I was still running around in a hoody or a sweater! However summer also means traveling and getting out more, and alas, less time for blogging!
It’s a good thing I’m an early riser or there would probably not be a Bastet and Sekhmet blog to read! One of my bigger blogging problems, is convincing my hubby that blogging is in fact a form of art! Well, I think he’s convinced on that point now, but he’d prefer to see me away from the computer when he’s up and about! Three months or so ago, I read a blog at Blogher that spoke of the problem…I think the title went something like: Does Blogging Create A Problem In Your Family, and I guess I’d have to answer; YES! Alas such is life. But of course, he’s not all wrong, it is summer and I should be out walking and sunning and not sitting behind a monitor. So a little time organization is required here to see how to save “goats and cabbages” as the Italians say…that comes from a little word game by the way: How can you in three trips take your goats and cabbages across your tiny row-boat without losing both.
Awards
Thanks to Belinda at Busy Mind Thinking for her nomination of the Very Inspiring Blogger Award! Now she is a lady who is an inspiration to us all and I feel privileged to be nominated to her.
I must also thank Patty from Petite Magique for her nomination of the Rose of Kindness Award! To receive this nomination from such a kind person herself leaves me without any other words than a sincere, thank you Patty!
A new exciting and earth-shaking award has been created by Sahm King at The Arkside of Thought its: The Friggin’ Awesome Blogger award, from now on FAB award. Here is the award of all awards for the blogger of all bloggers…and I thank him for his nomination. This I consider also a prompt, so I will write an individual piece to extol that FAB blogger that is me!
I don’t usually nominate people individually…that is not because I don’t have or can’t think of specific persons to nominate. My problem is TIME, and you need time to go to bloggers and nominate them one by one, linking etc. Time I do not have! So, please, please forgive if I don’t name you one by one. You are all great bloggers! I have a category dedicated to Awards…go have a look and feel free to choose one for yourself and post back (ping-back) to me that you have done so…easy no?
Blogging
Blogging takes you not only into your own mind and soul, but sometimes it takes you into the mind and soul of others…which if you think about it is not really odd. As Charles wrote in his poem: Unseen Friends:
They live close to our heart
Though we have never met
Friends from the ether
Connected by words
Read off the screen
And so it is! The WordPress community life, something I personally wasn’t expecting, gives us not only a wonderful opportunity to blog with visible responses, something that doesn’t always happen blogging individually, unless of course you’re already famous, but it also creates friendships and alas clashes. It’s a real world, even though we may never meet the people we speak to daily face to face.
This week was a bit of a roller coaster for me. A blogging friend disappeared without a clue (he later showed up to comment one of my poems about him) and a dear lady shared with us her health problems, for which I hope she will soon find a cure. Others have had problems with their book sales, others share their perplexities about love, anger, racism and well life . It’s not Facebook atmosphere that’s for sure!
My blogging buddies from Cranky Caregiver to Barb Taub in the short story range onwards to Lilith Colbert, MT Blu, Belinda, Sahm King and Shainbird for Poetry and Sweetness 6645, Frizztext and Judith at Sustainabilitea for photography plus Patty, Charles and Eric in general as well as others I’ve not named but whom you can see on my posts through their messages, all give me a wonderful feeling of encouragement to keep this blog running. You all deserve some special award, maybe the Encouraging Commenter Award!
This Week
To tell the truth, I don’t have anything special planned for this week…I’d hope that everyone will have a look at the Photo Comment I made yesterday about the adventure I had in Padova entitled: Photo Chronicle – 1387 etc it was a great trip and I took oodles of photos only a small portion of which was posted in that service.
Last week I tried my hand for the first time writing an Epic Fantasy entitled. Grace’s Cove and I think I want to try another, well not quite the same thing, but in the same ambiance.
Lilith at We Drink Because We are Poets gave us 3 photos from which to choose to inspire ourselves, I chose the kitten. The story I wrote met with mixed results. It seemed to me that letting a bird be eaten by a kitten somewhere in the world did not meet with enthusiasm. But in my opinion, as the song that was attached to that kitten was about a crazy lady who eventually ate a horse who “died of course”, I felt that death was actually the main subject, hidden behind a nonsense song and a cute kitten. I later wrote an alternate ending so each reader could choose which one was to be preferred. I asked that a comment be made to explain the reader’s choice…none was forthcoming…sigh. The title of the story was: The Kitten’s Tale. Oh! what I was going to say is that I’ll try to write a story for the other two prompts! 🙂 got lost there for a mo’ .
Ok everyone…hope you have a wonderful blogging week and write lots of fantastic posts! I’ll be waiting, with my arms akimbo as I look over the valleys and rivers here in Arco, imagining what you all would think or write if you were here with me!
Arrivaderci until next week!
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