Lucinda and I would like to welcome you to our 7th edition of the Perfect Post Awards - “the power to the blogger awards” because you make it all happen.
The Perfect Post Awards are a chance to read some of the best stuff written each month- and to spread a little warm fuzziness, too. If you’d like to present an award yourself next month, e-mail me or Lucinda and we’ll send you the latest award button code a few days before September 1st, so that you can participate as well. If you’re interested in looking through our past award posts, they can be found in my Shed.
Carbon Press for Live Again It was difficult to choose just one post by Josephine. She writes in a way that takes my hand and leads me down a daydream path every time I visit her. And she offers up magical photographs to go along side as well.
This particular post kept bouncing around in my brain after I read it. Her strength and her struggle are so raw and beautiful that I nearly wept.
“…The me that needs, MORE THAN ANYTHING, to feel the strength of my heart, and the expansion of my lungs, and the adaptability of my warm, snapping, pushing muscles, sustaining me through the most painful of situations.
Running - hungry, thirsty, worn out, sad, a little bit hopeful but very much empty - in the hot summer evening. And knowing, within the 49 beats per minute, that I don’t need anything but my feet, and my will, and the oxygen coursing through the currents of my veins.
Because the less you need, the less you have, and the less you have to lose.”
Josephine is a warrior and my new hero.
Here’s the list of this month’s winners:
Petroville awarded Carbon Press
Suburban Turmoil awarded State of Grace
My Life awarded Steel Cowboy
LadyBug Crossing awarded Straddling the Line
Barbara awarded Rocks & Garbage
Mysterious Lady awarded Dryden Is Home
MotherPie awarded Six Kids
Jenny from Mama Drama awarded I Obsess
Organized Chaos awarded The Elemental Mom and Three Moons
Blog Antagonist awarded Kvetch Blog
Never That Easy awarded Miss Zoot
Mamaritaville awarded Queen of Spain
Aka Monty awarded I Hate Kit Kats
Toddled Dredge awarded Bub and Pie
I Obsess awarded Wordgirl
Antique Mommy awarded Blog Antagonist
The Pink Diary awarded Everything Under The Moon
Courting Destiny awarded Bone
Panthergirl awarded MetroDad
Mommy Off The Record awarded I Obsess
Wordgirl awarded Linkateria
Something Baby Blue awarded Chicky Chicky Baby
Sunshine Scribe awarded Girl’s Gone Child
The Wallpaper of My Mind awarded Mom on a Wire
Black Belt Mama awarded SecondHand Tryptophan
Thinking About awarded Wordgirl
Queen Bee Confessions awarded No Diet Coke for Mommy
Fireflies & Frogs awarded Joy Unexpected
Miss Cellania awarded Konagod Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
Pass the Torch awarded If Mama Ain’t Happy
Six Kids awarded What It Is
Peanut’s Mom awarded Queen of Spain
Mama Tulip awarded Halloweenlover
Her Grace awarded The Open Window
The Fat Lady Sings awarded Wordgirl
Bub and Pie awarded Penelope and Bumblebee
Masked Mom awarded Suburban Bliss
Mother-woman awarded NonLinear Girl
Two Okapis awarded Child’s Play x 2
Lady M awarded Miss Zoot
The Mummy Chronicles awarded Diane’s Rantings
Mary Tsao awarded Surrender, Dorothy
The Lovely Mrs. Davis awarded Wordgirl
My Float awarded The Ladies Lounge
Practigal awarded Interrupted Wanderlust
Old Horsetail Snake awarded Boobs, Injuries and Dr. Pepper
Life, the Universe and Everything awarded Whatever, Mom
Shelli’s Sentiments awarded The Other Side of Dubs
Crazy MomCat awarded Karlababble
Queenie Carly awarded Gingers Mom
Mom 101 awarded Bub and Pie
Unexplored Territory awarded Dolce Bellezza
Cheeky Lotus awarded Her Bad Mother
♥ Please let me know if you’d like to be on the Presenters List for September ♥
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Oh my! Momma K, thank you.
I’m shocked to come here to your site this afternoon and see my post as your “Perfect Post”. Shocked.
Thank you for your kindness. This has totally made my week!!
[...] Go check out August’s Perfect Posts here. Filed under: Blog — Childsplayx2, Copyright (c) 2005-06 @ 10:03 am [...]
[...] And I love this post of Halloweenlover’s, which describes, as she puts it, her “weird theory about life” that ties into her feelings about not finding out the gender of her baby. I have to say, I don’t find her theory weird at all; I think it’s a beautiful way to look at the decisions and choices you make in your life and the many firsts that we get to experience, and that’s why she’s my pick for the August Perfect Post Award. Check it out, as well as all of the other Perfect Post awardees at Suburban Turmoil and Petroville. [...]
MommaK, you do have impeccable taste. And I agree. Picking just one of Josephine’s post would have been difficult indeed.
Congrats to the winners and thank you both for making this possible. Have a great weekend and may Ernesto rot
Happy Anniversary!
So, I just found your blog and can I tell you I think this is just about the CUTEST and FUNNEST blog I have ever seen! I would love to join up with perfect post if y’all will let me know what I need to do!