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Thinking (About) Bloggers

Colleen tagged me as a thinking blogger. The meme is to select and introduce 5 other bloggers who make you think. Deana gave me the nod as well when she was nominated by people who visit her.

Both ladies are my regular reads with their gifts for photographic eye, their capacity to see the brightness and beauty in the world.

Deana’s got a loving exuberance for her husband, her family, her dogs, her horses, her town, her cat Darius . Her kitchen mishaps are comfort to me that I’m not alone in making a spectacular mess. It’s fun to follow her life. It’s such a lively spot.

Colleen shares all the wonders that is Floyd with its music, dancing and poetry nights as well as her own walk mourning the loss of her brothers and father, celebrating their lives while treasuring and making explicit the appreciation she has for the people living in her life, such as her son Josh’s accomplishments. She is another blogger not reluctant to admit she has a good thing going with her husband, Her photo tours and captions and 13 Thursdays are a regular pleasure.

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Anastasia of Sexualité points out the originator of the Thinking Blog Award to thank blogs that make one think. (I had wondered where this came from.)

Who would my 5 be? I suppose the idea of meme and tagging embeds no-touch-backs like a game of tag. A lot of folks have done it. (When I do memes I often don’t tag someone but leave it open.) But for the meme to continue it has to be tossed towards at least some people who would play. Harum, hm.

Let me take it back a step.

The spirit of the underlying point though is to say why you appreciate particular people’s writing, what you get from it. Who do I learn from? A constraint of only 5 people is a good thing.

Renny Bakke Amundsen Why? Because he’s such a level-writer and has brought my level of knowledge about Norway from say, how to spell it, to a sense of what the country is about — information on the food, the customs and culture to golfand events, parsed out a week at a time in digestible bites.

rob mclennan Why? I’ve never seen anywhere so rich and thick in history and current of poetry and poets. It’s a degree course to read. Excerpts introduce poets and more takes on the world and whet more appetite for words. It uses the medium and hyperlinks to its capacity to link names with pieces of work they’ve done. He looks in depth at one piece of writing, say of Kidd and gives a context to how it relates to one writer’s life, other works and other poets. The cross-country roundups give a sense of continuity and connection between nodes of Canada and personal notes sown through make it grounded.

Dave Pollard Why? Because at How to Save the World Dave thinks through the big questions of systems and societal change, the responsibility one has to shape the global forces and how to create organizations (brick and mortar business or digital communities) so that structurally communication is made natural and information flows. He aims for critical thought, key distinctions, such as the difference between knowledge and propaganda or mental roadblocks and focus. Thoughts run long and deep, and often with graphic charts, such as on social networking.

John Bailey Why? Because John sees one scene a day, pictures of day or of Megacat Dolly. He shares amiable conversation around a bottle of wine with Graham, and a shopping trip or errand to Ikea, living in comfortable agreeable grace. While I might pick up a bit about pottery now and then, what I gain most is the influence of being around his attitude of being present and accepting ups and downs all cycle and more good is coming, (high-ho).

Patti Digh Why? At her 37 Days, there’s often a rich source of inspiring tangentally grounded threads of information such as following desire lines or learn your shadow. She always promotes reading of poetry but this month in particular is poetry month, each post featuring a poem there such as one by Naomi Shihab Nye.

Quote: “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.” — Jim Rohn

Art Link: Art of Quantity [via 37 Days]

Tech Link: how to make a better 404 error

Archeology Link: A Tucson dig where Homer is working.

Statistics Link: I did the quarterly update of my poetry writing rates. It’s now in it’s 14th year.

Learning Link: Gandhi serve, a site of footage, audio, correspondance of Mahatma Gandhi

Light Link: This is Not a Post