Gratitude:

Thank you, TersiaBurger@ http://tersiaburger.com for your nomination on April 14, 2013.   But I must confess, YOU are the one who should receive it! The love, courage, and determination to BE with your daughter through all that she has suffered since her birth, is beyond remarkable!  You carried your daughter through life…you never abandoned her…you gave her your strength! You are an incredible, amazing woman! And, now you are bravely facing your grief. Your courage is heroic!

7 Things about myself:

1.  I love to laugh.

2.  I cherish the people I meet and who allow me into their lives.

3.  I procrastinate at times…lol…I get involved in writing or reading and do not get the dishes washed! What is procrastination?  Avoidance of the inevitable? Power? Game playing?  Rebellion? LOL

4.  I love to play with duplo legos and build things!

5.  I came from a family of eleven siblings.

6.  I feel great gratitude to both my Mom & Dad, who taught me to be generous towards others and to be helpful and polite, to exercise sensitivity and compassion. to read, to think, and to persevere.

7.  In the past, I had great difficult believing in myself…I fought depression for a long time…but I made it…and I see how important it is to believe in oneself, to love oneself, and then one can love others so much better! And I love being in love!

My 15  Nominations are:

1. Tersia Burger    tersiaburger.wordpress.com   Tersia, you are a courageous woman to have put out your thoughts and very personal struggles there for all of us to read and feel with you! In so doing, you demonstrate to us that it is okay to ask others for help…you relates to us what it is really like to be human…to be vulnerable…to suffer…and to love.  Your blog is the epitome of inspiration and courage!  Thank you, Tersia!

2. Wuji Seshat Nibada       seshatwuji.wordpress.com  Wuji, your poetry is divine! and you cover so many different subjects! Wonderful!

3. Thomas Maxwell       thomasmaxwell12.wordpress.com    Thomas, you put forth such positive, inspiring life-giving ideas to all generations!

4. Mary        marysculptor.wordpress.com    Mary, I think your clay sculptures are lovely and so gracious! Thank you for having the courage to create!

5. Serendipity Point     emdawn80.wordpress.com  Serendipity, your ink drawings are so intense and fascinating! Your selection of postings fill me with thought…your writing leave me thinking deeply.

6. Miriam Sagan       miriamswell.wordpress.com    I think your writing is fabulous, Miriam,  and I think you are fabulous to encourage more writers through your willingness to publish them on your blog! You are an inspiration to all mentors!

7. Dennis  McHale      dlmchale.wordpress.com     Dennis, I love your honest writing!  It takes raw courage to put our true opinions/thoughts out there into the universe — I love that about your writing!

8. Bonnie          cyberbonn.wordpress.com       Bonnie, great selection of photos and appropriate quotations—well thought out and ever so inspiring!  Thank you!

9.  Summer Grow your inner self        summer4soul.wordpress.com    Summer, absolutely positive…wonderful truths…thank you for creating your blog!

10.  Safaa Tasneem    TheStm198       thedaintydamsel.wordpress.com    Safaa, I admire the way you write about love…romantic love…young love…beautiful!

11.   Mark Nelken       beautifulorange.wordpress.com     Mark, I enjoyed reading your article entitled, “Stuff that inspires me: #1 Paul Thomas Anderson —
it was a new and different information that I had never considered previously…also enjoyed  “Dancing on sand/Living for the now (another excerpt from my 1st draft)”  — I appreciate your courage to create and to write in such versatile art forms!

12.    Jeremiah     knowthesphere.wordpress.com          Jeremiah, I found your writings so clear and full of mystery, enticing me to search for more understanding of all that you have written, and I am hoping I will have enough time to learn before I leave this planet!

13.   Andy          dragoneystory.wordpress.com             Andy, you have beautiful photographs and lovely thoughts to go with them! And I enjoyed the selection of videos incorporated into you blog! So cool!

14.     nadyafauzia.wordpress.com       Nadya,  I found your blog so inspiring! Your poetry…the videos you posted..the quotations!  So inspirational! Thank you!  I hope many more will enjoy your blog!

15.   M M Mohan       advocatemmmohanaksharaalu.wordpress.com           M M Mohan, such deep and beautiful inspiring words you write!

The rules are (as I understand) –

1. Display The Very Inspiring Blogger Award logo on your blog. You can download it from:

2-Link back to the person who nominated you.

3-State 7 things about yourself.

4-Nominate 15 other bloggers for this award and link back to them.

5-Notify those bloggers of the nomination and the award requirements.

First Time Winner

Awarding the people who live in the moment,
the noble who write and capture the best in life,
the bold who reminded us what really mattered –
Savouring the experience of quality time.

BEST MOMENT AWARD

My Acceptance:

I would like to thank my dear friend Tersia for this award for my posting on the Tragedy of Boston. I think the BEST MOMENT AWARD should go to the heroes of this tragic day–their ability to move beyond themselves and help those who were injured. 

Yesterday—the tragedy of the Boston Marathon Day— was a HEART-BREAKING MOMENT for all of humanity…we all need to be kind to each other…in every home, in every village, in every town, in every city, in every country of our world!

I think of how this tragedy is repeated time after time in so many countries of the world…sometimes because my USA country– inflicts this on others through drone attacks and bombings. We NEED to GET RID of ALL WEAPONS…all BOMBS…all guns!  We NEED to only drop WATER CRYSTALS of LOVE!  We each are invited to be that change in the world…I must begin with myself…and be gentle towards others…Just imagine, if we each did this, the ripple effect of all those beautiful water crystals!  Our world would be an ocean  of LOVE!

The WordPress Bloggers that I nominate for this award are:

1.  .Tersia Burger    http://tersiaburger.com   I admire you for your courage to face your grief.

2.   Shane  http://shanesbookblog.com/   I admire you for your youthful enthusiasm and deep interest in writing– charging ahead and giving your writing your full effort!

3.   Mary    http://marysculptor.wordpress.com    I admire you for your courage to become the artist that you are!

RULES:

1. Winners re-post this completely, with their acceptance speech. That could be written down or video recorded.
2. Winners have the privilege of awarding the next awardees! The re-post should include a NEW list of people, blogs worthy of the award, and winners notify them the great news.
3. What makes a good acceptance speech?

Gratitude. Thank the people who helped you along the way.

Humour-Keep us entertained and smiling.

Inspiration – Make your story touch our lives.

Get an idea from the great acceptance speech, compiled in MomentMatters.com/speech

Display the award’s badge on your blog/website, downloadable in MomentMatters.com/Award

I would like to thank dear Tazein Nirzasaad [tazeinmirzasaad.wordpress.com] for nominating me! Thank you so much for your support!

The rules are:

1-Thank and link back to the person who awarded you.

2- Nominate 15 bloggers for The Versatile Blogger Award- and include a link to their site {and tell them that you have nominated them}

3- State 7 things about yourself.

MY NOMINATIONS ARE:

1- Tersia    http://tersiaburger.wordpress.com

2- Tom    http://simpletombornhigh.wordpress.com  

3- Paul   http://poesypluspolemics.wordpress.com

4- Tazein  Nirzasaad  transcendingbordersblog.wordpress.com

5- Carol A. Stephen   http://quillfyre.wordpress.com

6- Kenneth       http://theculturemonk.wordpress.com

7-  QueridaJ    http://intotheindigo.wordpress.com

8-  Ami Fidele    http://amidereve.wordpress.com

9-  Shane  http://shanesbookblog.com

10- Cliff     http://masterbias.wordpress.com

11- Patty   http://petitemagique.wordpress.com

12-  Rebecca  http://chasingart.com

13- Valeria Davies     http://valeriedavies.com

14- Doug  http://ironwoodwind.wordpress.com

15- Celestine     http://readinpleasure.wordpress.com

7 THINGS ABOUT ME!

1-I am very grateful that I was born…”to Be…for this Yahweh created all.” Wisdom 1:14 —this about the only Biblical numerical reference I know! When in the convent, I would reference the Bible with: “Somewhere in the Bible, it says…”  LOL

2-I try to be remain open to love, the gift of friendship –I have been blessed with GOOD FRIENDS!

3-I am so grateful for every day of my life – even the days I struggle – those days help me to grow and to be empathetic towards others and I do realize that most people are fighting some kind of battle…either internally or externally each day.

4-I am so grateful for Lara, Annie and Sara–my three lovely daughters–and my precious grandchildren–Ayden and Nadia. I am grateful for the many friends that have enriched my life!

5-I try to live compassion.

6-I love to laugh! I love to make other people laugh and smile…and realize I should put more joy in my writing, which tends to be quite serious.

7-I loved to teach [36 years]…I miss it greatly…my students enriched my life so much…and now I am transitioning into being a writer…a painter on canvas…and a better lover of myself and humankind in our ocean of water-life~!

My wish for all of my friends and fellow bloggers on WordPress, continued success in your writing…and our mutual desire to be with one another through our words…to write words to share who we are…to bring us all closer to truth, love and to each other in our world of water bubbles!