Hi, a very kind fellow blogger: http://mysteriouslyquiet.wordpress.com – nominated me for the Inspiring Blogger Award. Thank you so much, that is incredibly kind and humbling. I’m hoping that the rules and posting requirements don’t defeat the rather luddite side of me!

I understand the rules are:

1.) Display the award logo on your blog.
2.) Link back to the person who nominated you.
3.) State 7 things about yourself.
4.) Nominate 15 bloggers for this award.
5.) Notify those bloggers of the nomination by linking to one of their specific posts so that they get notified by ping back.

So, the seven things I’d list would be:

1. I’m not too sure how to link posts and blogs yet so I may get that part of this wrong! 😦
2. Dragons are my favourite mythological beasts (my gravatar may be a give away of this fact)
3. My favourite way to relax is lazing around watching DVDs
4. I work in a people intensive job so I tend to become a bit of an introvert/hermit on weekends
5. I enjoy working with and writing about archetypes/archetypal themes
6. Sometimes I dream things that come true, but for the most part its just random stuff like what will turn up on tv the next day, so I call it being a cosmic vacuum cleaner
7. If chocolate and mangoes ever go out of existence I will see little real point in life (or at least little joy) 🙂

As to nominating other writers there are so many I’ve come across in even the two or so weeks I’ve been blogging, so choosing 15 will be a bit arbitrary and I will undoubtedly leave out someone I love to read. To help avoid this I’m deliberately not nominating people I’d otherwise nominate if I’ve seen they’ve already been nominated, but I still may miss some great bloggers inadvertently.

This is unintentional, and I love all the writing I’m getting the privilege to read, but if I choose 15 that grabbed my attention I’d say (excluding those I know have been nominated already like my kind nominator):

http://annieb222.com
http://joplinpoetry.wordpress.com
http://dreaminginverse.wordpress.com
http://moviewriternyu.wordpress.com
http://cristianmihai.net
http://erikslehman.wordpress.com
http://thesanctuaryofmyheart.com
http://rawencounterswithestella.wordpress.com
http://serialoutlet.wordpress.com
http://literarylandofalysia.wordpress.com
http://sidesho37.wordpress.com
http://cultfit.wordpress.com
http://jrosenberry1.wordpress.com
http://sethsnap.com
http://charity-spring.org

All these writers, photographers and caring people have added great enjoyment and soul to my life in the so far brief time I’ve had to enjoy their works. There are others also that I follow, so I mean no offence to any missing here – 15 is the required limit and I must abide by the rules. 🙂

As others have said, should any of you wish not to accept the nomination that is totally fine. 🙂 I also hope I end up doing this process correctly because, as I said above, I’m no IT expert and blogging is very new to me, including how to link to posts and so forth. If I do link something incorrectly please let me know – happy to fix anything I do wrong.

More generally, to everyone I have shared my work with and enjoyed of theirs, I say thank you. There are so many of you that inspire me that I could easily have done that list twice over and more. If I’m following you, you inspire me!

And to my kind nominator, given how much I love your work, I am truly humbled by your generosity.