I have received the “One Lovely Blog” award, from a new net-friend Clare Flourish!

Clare has a truly lovely blog herself, full of strength and elegance and illustrated beautifully with paintings and photographs.  I’m delighted that she chose mine among the blogs she nominated!

As I understand it, I am to share seven things about myself, and then nominate 15 other blogs to receive the Lovely Blog award.  I may fall short in number on the second count (I don’t have time to follow many), but we’ll see.

First, about me:

1. My favorite answer is “yes, and no.”
2. These days I am striving to live beyond labels — I am beginning to suspect there are many labels I remain bound by but don’t (yet?) know it.
3. I don’t know what I think about God.
4. I have very strong opinions about religion.
5. My beloved surprised me when she showed up (finally!) in my life — she was a woman!
6. I love to organize… and I have the perfect job because it involves organizing someone else.  Frankly, I’m way better at that than I am at organizing myself.
7. On my dorm room door 20 years ago: James Honeyman Scott’s obituary, and a Nietzsche quote, “Without music, life would be a mistake.”

There you have it.

The better half of the homework for this award, the List of other Lovely Blogs, to follow!