While checking blogs tonight I saw that Karen at Over The Backyard Fence has received an award for The Creative Blogger, and also one for thoughtfulness. The descriptions of what these are given for became two very long paragraphs. Easily enough to rosy up some cheeks, and give modesty a reason to look away a moment.

The one for being creative really gets going, when it says it is for the artsy, the funky, the inventor, and even the rebel, and sums it all up with: "This award is for those individuals who stand out from the crowd", And we haven't got to the thoughtfulness one yet, so I'll sum it up with "This award is for those generous bloggers who think of others."

By now I'm more than a little curious, so I go to Karen's blog, and sure enough, creativity is all over it, especially when she blogs about her family and their life together. How she gets the energy to do so much, at the same time, is a looming question. But her thoughtfulness in all of it, and even further, is hands down clear.

Karen just passed these honors down to five other bloggers, and one of them was me. She said the sweetest thing I've heard in many a time; she said I have a poet's heart. I would list the other ladies who were chosen, but I can't figure out how to pull up their names, without messing up this post. And like Karen, I probably shouldn't be recognized for blogging design, and fixing sites; anything more critical than posting and publishing, all those things wouldbe writers can't take time for. I can't even show the nice award buttons yet because I don't know how to, but a quick email to a daughter in the morning will take care of it, which proves again we members of this blogging family really are in it together. Thanks for the honors, Karen.