Awards and recognitions

DISCLAIMER: Last week I was awarded with 3 very important recognitions by fellow bloggers. I have waited until now to post about them because I finally have had time to actually sit down and calmly talk about them and the prestigious trophies they bestowed.

The past days at work have been quite stressful, long hours and tediously hot on the sound stage. I guess the sleep deprivation from the past weeks of work, personal issues involving my son's schooling and general yard-long concerns of red-taped nature, have all piled up on each other. Each little problem, big or small, has contributed to this delay. For that I apologize.

Drumroll, please.

This award was personally handed to me by one of it's worthy initial recipients, Ces of Ces and Her Dishes. This award was created in honor of Renee, one human being who has made such a difference in the lives of many just by being. Her honestly, wit, intelligence, and grit are a tremendous source of inspiration. She can elicit raucous laughter and guffaws in her banter, and then turn right around and offer the most heartfelt, gentle words of wisdom and emotional support. She is a spreader of love, simple and true. And her love is infectious.
This is a brand new award, and I have the pleasure and honor of continuing to spread the seed, watching it grow. I hope it finds its way to those who are like Renee: the acorn, a small package becoming a tall and sturdy oak giving more acorns, becoming tall and sturdy oaks, giving acorns…"

This is why I love blogging because I meet brilliant, gifted and talented people. So I am happy to give this award to oak trees, whose acorns spread copious love, words and exquisite thoughts:

Rosaria of Sixtyfivewhatnow
Nihal of CrossRoads
David McMahon of Authorblog
Maryann of Finding La Dolce Vita
Edoardo of Clouds and Silvery Linings

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The second award I was given was from sweet Distracted By Shiny Objects of A Tidings of Magpies and it "goes to fellow bloggers who visit frequently and raise spirits with their kind words of encouragement, their beautiful images and their wonderful outlook on life. They make blogging a positive experience and continue to make life richer."

Distracted says,"Please feel free to pass this award along to your friends. I ask that you do name them but you don't have to link to them. Just stop by their blogs and let them know you've given them this award."

I pass this acknowledgement on to ALL my blog friends, you know who you are. I will not list them all in order to end this post in a timely manner. Just feel free to browse my blogroll...

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My third award this week was kindly handed over by Eddie Bluelights of Clouds and Silvery Linings. It is the prestigious Premios Dardos Literary Award. I was highly honoured to receive this award "for services to literature, requiring deep thinking, innovation and taking risks whilst writing." I am humbled by Eddie's generous gesture and his kind words of praise.

I am pleased to pass on this award to a delightful blogger whom I have known for a while. She writes exceptionally well, involves her readers with her soft spoken posts, and superb writing, triggers emotional response, is a fabulous photographer, an excellent mother, a delightfully generous blogger, and a dear friend.
I am happy to present the PREMIOS DARDO LITERARY AWARD to Lori Ann of Lori Times Five. She will be picking this up when she returns from her African adventure. Read all about it next week...

ciao my friends, blogging changed my life...