Spreading the love

Bless her, my blogging friend Anjum has passed the Brilliante Blog award on to me. She got it via The Hand Mirror, and the Hand Mirror got it from Blue Milk, who got it from dirt and rocks who got it from Postcards from the Edge, and that’s as far as I traced it.

It’s a lovely meme-ish sort of award. You get to name some blogs you love, and pass the award on to them, and they pass it on to some more people, and it spreads and spreads and spreads, and takes some interesting twists and turns along the way.

The rules.

1. Put the logo on your blog.
2. Add a link to the person who awarded it to you.
3. Nominate at least 7 other blogs.
4. Add links to these blogs on your blog.
5. Leave a message for your nominee on their blog.

Taking full advantage of the “at least” condition, my nominees are:

Art and my Life – a mother, a feminist, an art lover. She crams her art into the corners of her days. I go to her blog to see beautiful pictures, and to connect, with a woman whose life is in so many ways similar to mine.

Love is a Symbol – my e-friend Merc, who writes beautiful poems, and produces thought-provoking art. These days, his blog makes me cry. I wish I could rush across the Tasman and go for a long, silent, companionable walk along the beach with him and his partner.

Homepaddock – a strong thinking rural woman from the south of NZ. I suspect that we agree on far more than either of us would think, given that I am basically left, and she is basically right (wing, not correct).

DonnaSooWho – my really truly real-life friend Donna writes an existential blog. It started out recording what she had for lunch that day – very early 21st century. We went to her wedding recently, in Melbourne.

Object Dart – my oldest blog friend, whose topics are varied, and always interesting.

Inner City Garden – a mother, a feminist, a gardener, in inner-city Melbourne.

Harvest Bird – a beautiful prose stylist, with, shall we say, a varied life. Where else would you find posts on the physical intricacies of dog breeding and teaching foreign students.

FirstPerson ThirdCat – spare, quirky, life in short, snappy posts. A woman who does things “for reasons” which seems to me to be a perfectly good way of describing the why.

Stranded in Reality – Snark and quirk, and somehow, they both appeal to me. I am alternately entertained and provoked by Ruth.

My THM-blogging colleague Stef the ex-expat. I am grateful to her for her fabulous lemon surprise cupcakes, which I serve without icing, but with yoghurt and berries on the side, as a dessert. Yummy yummy yummy. I am also grateful to her for her fascinating blogging; I love her posts on Korea, North and South, and so often, she captures something that I have been trying to articulate myself.

I would nominate Spanblather, but she has moved on to other things. A nomination in arrears then, but I know she will see this.

I think I’m going to forego the ‘leaving a comment’ part, but I hope that you will go visit some of these blogs that I love, and that the bloggers I love will spread the love a little further.