To Blogging Awards and Beyond!

One of the pleasant surprises in the blogging world happens when a reader of your blog, whom you are completely unaware of, turns up at your blog one day, leaves a comment and, as if that were not pleasant enough, hands you an award! It’s more than pleasant. It’s a joy! Yes, I have been very pleasantly surprised by your comment, Searching Within, and this award:

Thank you!

I have often stopped by your blog to treat myself to the stunning drama of a wild ride into the subconscious as suggested by the image on your blog. Sometimes an image like that is enough to leave one grasping (and gasping!) for the ‘other’ world while straddling the nebulous divide between the finite known and the vast unknown! It is thrilling – excitement served with a tincture of fear!

Giving and receiving awards is a wonderful thing. It can heighten our sense of appreciation for one another. However, awards are one-off events. They stir up a bit of excitement, interest and enthusiasm for a few brief moments and then, their impact fizzles out, rather like the sparklers on a birthday cake!

While greatly appreciating this award and another that I’ve been given this week (which you can read about here), I would like to use this opportunity to encourage the practice of posting about each other’s posts.

Let me explain. As bloggers, we post. Most often we post about things that interest us. As bloggers, we also read. At least I hope we do. Read each other’s blogs, that is. Why not then post about the posts we read?

The value in doing this is that we reference another person’s writing more specifically. It encourages us to take the time to read each other’s posts and seriously and sincerely interact with the ideas therein. In so doing, it encourages readers of our blogs to visit the blogs whose posts we may have discussed or referenced far more frequently than an award would.

It’s an idea. Do you think it could work? Would you like to find out more about what I mean? If so, please check out this post.

Alright, now that I’ve got that off my chest, let me proceed with the delightful duty of sharing this award with five others. I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that I could easily pick more than five and that those I am picking just now are not necessarily better than those I haven’t nor do they always contain content that I personally agree with. They just happen to be more in my attention just now. As for their content, well, every idea is worth considering, if only to help us become clearer about what we do believe and what we want to believe!

To all who have joyously received this award as well as those who are about to, may we all enjoy and allow the energy of appreciation, respect and celebration that we offer one another!

Before I name the latest recipients of this award, let me alert you to the PROTOCOL surrounding this award:

* Put the logo on your blog or post.
* Nominate at least 5 blogs (can be more) that for you are Uber Amazing!
* Let them know that they have received this Uber Amazing award by commenting on their blog.
* Share the love and link to this post and to the person you received your award from.

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In love, Lucy

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