So, I’ve been honored with a couple unlikely blogging awards recently.
First, thanks to silentlyheardonce for nominating me for the Beautiful Blogger Award!
Similarly, thanks to Caitlin for nominating me for the One Lovely Blog award.
I am thankful for the nods, and I find the timing quite funny; here’s why –
I’ve been putting together some work for a dear friend of mine who heads up a non-profit called Rooftop 519. He mentioned to me recently that most of the target readers for this material will be women, so I need to be careful, since my writing has such a masculine bent. To quote him exactly –
“You write like Conan (the Barbarian, not the redhead) with a dash of Gandalf and a little Ron Swanson on the side. I picture you writing in your man’s study with a quart of mead and a turkey leg by your side. The only thing with more testosterone than a page of your writing is a full grown bull shark.”
So, given the nature of these recent awards, I’d have to say – In your face Shawn Manley! Seems like someone has gotten in touch with his feminine side!
Ok, so questions I’m supposed to answer for the One Lovely Blog Award:
1: What is your favorite color?
Blue
2: What is your favorite animal?
Penguins
What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?
Iced Coffee
3: Do you prefer Facebook or Twitter?
Facebook. I’m too lazy to tweet
4: What is your favorite pattern?
It’s a sonic pattern – that repeating symphonic part on Coldplay’s Vida La Vida
5: Do you prefer giving or getting presents?
Getting. Hello??
6: What is your favorite number?
Dan Marino’s #13
7: What is your favorite flower?
Ummmm. The plastic kind you don’t have to water
8: What is your favorite day of the week?
Saturday
9: Whatβs your passion?
Christ, my family, music, and writing.
So I think the rules are I’m supposed to nominate 7 people for each of these. Since many of the bloggers I follow have received them at least once, I’m going to give a shout out to just two people, starting with my masculine brother, Shawn Manley for the Beautiful Blogger award. Sincerely, he does have a beautiful heart, so it is deserved.
For the One Lovely Blog Award, I nominate my friend Shannon over at Revelations In Writing. She shares uplifting thoughts on scripture each day, and she’s an awesome sistah.
That’s it for now. Beautiful Blogger signing off!
Categories: awards, men, spiritual themes, writing
Congrats :)!!!
Thank you π
Well done on the awards.
Thanks a million, good man.
Your are deserving of the recolonization.
Thanks dear one.
oops suppose to be reorganization.
Congrats. Yay to the number 13 and blue. π
Thanks much π
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Yes you are.
Ah, thanks.
First off, hooray penguins. Secondly, your friend is named rather ironically to be calling you a beefcake…
Lol. Yes, I suppose he is. His comments were actually in response to my telling him I used to carry some insecurity because in college I had a creative writing assignment where it was read in front of the class by the instructor. Nobody knew who wrote it, but they all assumed it was written by a girl