Very seldom do I engage in blogging games, but today I am in the mood. Daryl Warner-Laux, over at Verda-Vivo green blog tagged me, and I am supposed to let you know seven random things about me. Here we go:
- I swim every day with the Stanford master swim team. Never mind that I am the slowest of all, I would not miss it for anything.
- I am addicted to Twitter.
- Other serious addiction of mine: 85% dark chocolate from Cote d’ Or.
- I am in the midst of launching a community website for grocery shoppers.
- I am going through an identity crisis as a green blogger.
- I have frequent, secret conversations with the little Buddha on my desk.
- I am not into the holiday gifts frenzy.
The rules for ‘social-networking’ tagging:
- Link to the person who tagged you.
- Post the rules on your blog.
- Share seven things about yourself – some random, some weird.
- Tag seven people at the end of your post and link to them.
- Let each person know they’ve been tagged and leave a comment on their blog and/or Twitter.
- Let the tagger know when your entry is posted.
Who I’m tagging – in no particular order:
- Lynn Miller at Organic Mania
- Nadine Sellers at Greenadine
- Jason Crawford at Scream To Be Green
- Colin Beavan at No Impact Man
- Jennifer Taggart at The Smart Mama
- Mike Wheets at Wheeties
- Kyle Schuant at Green With a Gun
Master’s swim team, wow! I feel like the slowest of the slow when I play the “big girls” in our tennis league so understand. Good luck on the community website for grocery shoppers. Hope you will share on your blog.
And if the Buddha answers back, probably best to keep it to yourself. Thanks for playing along! ~ Daryl
i feel so under-competitive, but i can lift furniture up spiral antebellum stairs after-all, does that count?
hey? i share number 3, though i must settle for Lindt chocolates locally.
and merci for the pings and pinches in the right places, i am awake and willing to blog up, up and away.
one grateful poetess, nadine
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Since I don’t have a blog, yet, to tag to or be tagged to, I think my soul and psyche are still unburdened (by this at least!) and I can ignore the rules, so here goes . . .
I would like to hear more about the “identity crisis”. That type of thing interests me. From that type of thing, I can learn. Be honest now.
Also, have you read the book “Siddhartha”? If not, I suggest it.
As for sharing, I’ll share a few things:
Although I deeply respect facts and logic and good reasoning, and I think those are all vitally important ingredients in how we will hopefully solve our HUGE problems, nevertheless, when it comes to actual human motivation, some things are more powerful.
In the last several months, I’ve seen performances by Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Joan Baez, not to mention Alison Krauss and Robert Plant, Norah Jones, and etc. I also saw Al Gore speak during this period.
Talk about being moved and motivated. If a person can listen to some of Bob Dylan’s lyrics and “points”, and listen to the pleas and passion in Neil Young’s voice, and hear Joan Baez’s voice and look her in the eyes, and see Krauss and Plant sing “Down to the River” (or whatever it’s called), and still not be moved and motivated, then that person’s mirror neurons must not be working well. All that’s necessary for me these days to be motivated to try harder to help the world get back on a better track is to hear a Joan Baez song or see her CD cover.
My other admission: The thought came to me, this morning, how different it is these days to hear some of the news about (the new to-be) leadership and actually think that someone is actually THINKING these days in government. Before, nearly every time I heard about a new statement or policy from leadership (about climate, or energy, or some aspect of science, or the economy, or health care, or etc.), I thought, “what kind of logic and thinking led to THAT?” I was starting to wonder whether I was from Mars or some planet even farther away! But, these days, much more often than not, when I hear about something that Obama is planning or saying or doing, I think “wonderful: it’s about time.” Of course, I don’t agree with quite all of his decisions and statements, but I agree with most of them so far, and they all seem to be founded at least on facts and good logic. What a breath of fresh air. I no longer think that I’m from Mars.
Well, I’m sorry that I didn’t help with tag. There was a time when I liked being “it”, but perhaps that’s too much responsibility for today. Much more fun to just sit back and ask the other person about THEIR “identity crisis”!
Cheers,
Jeff
Hi Marguerite,
Thanks for tagging me! I must know you pretty well by now (for a bloggy friend) because the only thing I didn’t know about was your chocolate addiction and the talking Buddha! I’ve just about got my 7 points but it will take a few days to get up, so bear with me!
Lynn
But you’re a good and thoughtful green blogger – what’s the problem?
I nominated you for this too.
Great post, thank you. I signed up to your blog RSS.