4/28/09

2009 Mental Ninja Awards

Ces's 2009 Mental Ninja Awards
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HIYAH!
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I am convinced I am the only conservative and registered Republican visitor of the Darling Renee. That makes me feel very special, which now means that quite possibly I am presenting this award to some liberals. What can I say? I have high ideals and I try to overlook the shortcomings of these beloved friends of mine for they are brainiacs and mental ninjas, artistic and creative minds and word warriors.





Baino (thank goodness she can't vote in the US)

Renee (double thank goodness, tripple thank goodness, quadruple thank goodness she can't vote in the US!!! La-la-la-la-la!)

Bjornik (you're a genius, so can do anything you want dear)

Bella Sinclair (what can I say, love is blind)

Tessa (I am keeping my fingers crossed. Someone who is a cross between Austen and Kipling can't be aligned with the party of Barney Frank! Oh God, please don't let it be)

Manon (if you are, a beautiful woman always gets away with anything)

Linda Cardina (if you are dear, I'll just think of it as a bad Gemini trait)

Valerie Walsh (you can do anything you want Val)

Karin (So intense and I love your journals, be who you are Karin)

Diana Evans (you are my only hope)
Aimee (she's perfect to me!)

Dusik (I hope your beautiful fairies are not fairies)

BT (Who says gardening is not a mental exercise?)

Kaili (My dearest kapatid - be perfect and special, be not like the rest)

Pam (I am counting on you)

Lavender (I have hope yet)

Chris (I have no doubt, but I like her anyway and she is sooo much fun)

Bimbimbie (I like her very much, she can be anything she wants)

Arija (if you are, I may convert just to be like you!)
JoyEliz (Best news today!)
Update 5/25/2009. I am giving this award to Sarah who I've just gotten to know recently. I love her art and her diverse skill plus she gets called by parents who need help disciplining their children, so does it really matter whether she is liberal or conservative?
6/4/2009. Deborah, Midlife Poet!!! - There's hope yet!.

NOT! Maybe I should advertise my blog as a conservative blog to attract my own kind. or maybe the conservatives are minding the stores. So what does that make me?
Award design inspired by my very own Mental Ninja Em!

4/12/09

Ces's 2009 Annual Blog Awards - Part I

Since I started blogging, I have created special awards that I give to bloggers who have influenced and inspired me. These are not meme awards as I only give them once a year to a select few. In fact I have only given the "A Class By Itself Award" to one special blogger - Bird Anonymous.
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I have only given this award once for the simple reason that it is so named. This year, I would like to present this award to four blogs whose authors not only have inspired me but have touched my heart and tickled my mind in a very special way. When you visit their blogs and read their visitors' comments you will understand what I mean.
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They are truly a class by themselves!
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The second award is one that I receive a couple of years ago from a wonderful artist and phenomenal woman, Carla Kurt. I am proud and honored to have been recognized by Carla. This year I am recreating this award. This is very special to me. I am using the image of a painting I made more than twenty five years ago to honor a woman was truly phenomenal, my beloved Mother. If you follow my blog and have read about my mother, you will also understand and know what I mean. I have followed these bloggers for quite sometime. They range in age and some are younger than me but nevertheless, I am awed by their wisdom, their strengths and courage, talents, gifts, abilities and the inspiration they give to others. They play many admirable roles and may be a mother, wife, grandmother, sister, homemaker, professional, business woman, dilettante, head of the family, conservationist, confidante, friend...but they have one thing in common: they inspire me:
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To all my other blog friends, I hope to get to know you better through your blogs, until then, have fun!
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Part II coming up soon...
If you see me lurking, it's because of these:


Anon was the 2007 recipient. You could be next!

4/7/09

The Renee Award




Today is an auspicious day!


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Today is a beautiful day, cool, breezy and light. Today is filled with love and joy. Today is Tuesday. I have a learning session with another analyst. I take out the garbage on Tuesday morning because my son who is supposed to take it out is still asl...SCREECH! Stop! Not that way. This way. Today is a lovely day. I get to wear blue jeans today because I completed my employee satisfaction surv...STOP! STOP! STOP!
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April 7th, Tuesday. Today is beautiful because I am giving out The Renee Award. Let me paraphrase my dearest friend Bella Sinclair whose April 7th day is fast approaching tomorrow on the other side of the globe:
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"This award is meaningful to me in three profound ways. Firstly, it 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."
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Secondly, this award was created in collaboration with one of my best friends,
Bella Sinclair. She is, in my opinion, brilliant dilletante, special in every way and she makes me very happy. She is an incredible artist, her illustrations ooze with mirth and pure delight. She is steady strength punctuated by fiery passion with a graceful hand. She is laughter, fun, joy, intellectual stimulation, eloquence, a sister. Bella saved the concept of this award with her acorn drawing because otherwise you will be receiving a sterile rendition of an acorn.
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Thirdly, 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…"
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This is why I love blogging because I meet brilliant, gifted and talented women. So I am happy to give this award to painters, illustrators, gardeners, photographers and word warriors:
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Pam
Arija
Karin
Tessa
Diana Evans
Carolyn
BT
Manon Doyle
Maria
Baino
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oh and men of course! I also give this award to:

Pieterbie
Sidney

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my quiet French friend whose photographs of trees and French landscapes and occasional visits leaving me comments in French drives me to near syncopal episodes:

Jean
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Go plant a Quercus!