The dear old chap from the land upside-down, Loz, nominated me for a Thinking Blogger Award. That is the equivalent of Clint Eastwood giving Gilbert Gottfried the Academy Award for Best Actor. But I am honored nonetheless. Thanks Loz from Oz!
I promise to keep this post shorter than the one I did for the Schmoozer Award! But I think it is important to realize that this is what makes blogging so incredibly relevant to my life. Each and every one of the myriad blogs I stumble into every day makes me think. You all have an amazing gift that your writing transcends your topics or even the subject of your blog in general. I devour your posts and they live with me long after I leave your site.I even return to them from time to time. That’s what turns a Blog into a Thinking Blog.
Here are just a few recent examples of what I am talking about:
Midlife - A Journey: Ages - If Loz doesn’t make you stop and ponder the really big questions in life, then you have ice in your veins.
Terri Terri Quite Contrary - Revelation - Who hasn’t struggled with the “whats-it-all-about” questions in life? Here we have Terri sharing with us some of those questions. Which one of us is not standing in the sidelines cheering her on?
All That Comes With It - Of the Way We Were - I have re-read this post 3 or 4 times. Here, the ONE AND ONLY DAN reflects on how he felt when he was diagnosed with dyslexia as a child and how this did and did not affect his life.
I hate making a list like this because it immediately eliminates the bajillion others that I read and return to.
It is not about how prolific you are as a blogger. Sometimes, I know that those posts that are far and few between are going to be filled to the brim with “Thinkability” and I will chew on those and savor them even more.
If anything I have ever written has made this kind of an impact on anyone, then I am happy. Thank you Loz!
So I need to nominate 5 people that deserve a Thinking Blogger Award to. Judging from my BlogRoll, I think I was the last person left without the award. So here is what I will do. I know that People in the Sun likes to think I am crazy for nominating some Right-Wing Christian blogs for the Schmoozer Award, so I won’t do that this time. Instead, I will simply link to one site. It is not a blog and probably would not care for the award. But it truly is one of my favorite places to be when I am feeling overwhelmed with life.
Astronomy Photo of the Day - Scroll through some of the images and briefly read what they are about. By the time you are done looking at awesome pictures of galaxy clusters, then you draw your own conclusion about god, religion, life’s meanings and “whats-it-all-about.” Personally, by the time I leave that site, it really does not matter to me that my daughter spilled her popcorn last night and I had to make another batch for our family movie night.
I know that the point of the Award is to pass it on to others more deserving, but I would rather play by my own rules this time. Enjoy.
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Obligatory cut-and-paste stuff here:
Congratulations, you won a 
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Should you choose to participate, please make sure you pass this list of rules to the blogs you are tagging. I thought it would be appropriate to include them with the meme.
The participation rules are simple:
1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the ‘Thinking Blogger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alternative silver version if gold doesn’t fit your blog).
That was that! Please, remember to tag blogs with real merits, i.e. relative content, and above all - blogs that really get you thinking! It is the first time I am starting something with my blog so I hope it doesn’t come back to haunt me.
Happy link-love-sharing, whatever it is!
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You’re a true gent Dan, thank you very much.
That post is a special one for me too, probably the most exposed I’ve ever let myself be on my blog. It’s nice to know you liked it.
Left by t'other Dan on July 19th, 2007