I have a bit of backlog acknowledgments to mention before I let loose the typing fingers on whatever topic they decide to pound out for the day, which currently, is still undecided (Rebecca, the writer, wake up!) First up~
  I’m trying to stifle the shyness in me and force myself to mention all this, so here we go…*The Blogitzer* and one other nomination, that I’m truly trying to ekk up the courage to place on here. It has the letters H and O plus T followed by Mommies. If you really want to know, you’ll have to click on that badge ( if I’ve done this badge thing correct, you can click on that green box and it will be like a magical carpet ride off to the Bloggers Choice Site, but don’t click yet, I have more to say)……..I’d like to thank @Jtuwliens for this honor. Her description about my site dropped my jaw to the floor and makes me want to read me! I am very honored and extremely grateful. Thank You~ If anyone feels like going there, and voting for Provocation of Mine (d), I thank you as well!

Over the last month several people have mentioned my blog for various Honors. I know I’m quite the slacker in the department about mentioning those personal nods on my blog. To be honest, I’m currently having a heart attack about putting that nomination badge up there, it’s a me thing…..But, I assure everyone it is not because I am un-grateful or there is a lack of appreciation, just the opposite. Humble pie constricts my throat, I smile a lot, but I’m hopelessly bad at taking a compliment. I hope by adding an Honors page at the top of my blog, and always (from now on that is, and as much as I’d love to go back and include all the honors I’ve received over time, I just can’t) including them there, I’m doing right by the people who have done so………Thank you everyone!!!

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Yesterday I received an email from someone that has had me thinking a lot about the power of words. (Swallow J, don’t worry, I’m not giving details, on my honor) This email was from someone who read one of my letters to my daughters, about Death and Loss, and he was touched enough to write me an email about how it effected him.

I was moved, for many reasons. Today I see this big picture. A strand of connection that is threaded in and around the choices I make when it comes to words and writing. I’m not just talking about blog writing, although it’s a form of connection I doubt could be rivaled.

I write letters to my daughters, both here on my blog as a series (that’s been neglected), and handwritten ones. I write letters for the snail mail and send them off to friends with the hope that my words touch a persons day unexpectedly. I write short stories and novel length sagas without an ounce of expectation, but I do know someday they will connect one way or another with the universe. I give my life timeline and concrete memories via my blog. Words with purpose, sentences with connection, a paragraph that embraces or makes one laugh. I realized I do need that, I do want that for myself and I do thrive standing in the river surrounded by movement. I realized, in one form or another, words have a current and I am a better, happier, more content person when I share them. My life is also more richer when I actively seek others words and connection. Be it books, letters, blogs, a news article………….

I imagine everyone has a reason for why they write, what they write. Perhaps it’s important to them, ~the why~, perhaps it doesn’t matter in the least. I am prone to navel gazing, so to some degree, purpose for doing things is always on my radar. So today, I’m just finally uncovering the method to the madness. The ying and the yang of why I do what I do. I like knowing purpose and I believe I’m finally closing in on that definition.

~Grace note: Here’s a concept to try out~ As J did for me, write someone an email telling them how much you appreciated something they wrote. You could make their day, their week and bring an unexpected smile to their world~