Summarizing the year: the things I've done, the changes I've made, the toys I've gotten, the sites I've found...
I'd like to thank Jette and Chip for organizing this event year after year, and maintaining the portal. That takes a lot of effort, even when you've been able to automate everything. Thanks also to the folks who served on the reader's panel, for reading through each of our posts every day.
I found the following sites through Holidailies:
- Music and Cats
- Refuse to Blog
- Wicked Jaw
- Domestic Bliss
- Monkey Pants and Hippo Dignity
- Watermark | A Poet's Notebook
- A cat by any other name — I had a good idea I'd enjoy this site when I read about their Elder God tree topper.
- Word Plus One — I'm not a fiction writer, so while I was familiar with the precision short story format, I had never heard of flash fiction.
- Interviewing God — it seems like a relatively new blog, so I hope it doesn't evaporate once Holidailies is over.
- The Write Coast — this woman moved, with her husband and three cats, across the country last year. Now she's back in California, and gleeful as...as...as a very gleeful thing. (It's been a long run. I'm running out of adjectives.)
- The Spiritus Project — it's difficult, at times, to be civil to everyone, especially those who seem to take great delight in dividing the world into “us” and “them” (particularly some extreme bloggers). It's also frustrating being raised in a Christian tradition, and to see so many people — including many who identify themselves as Christian — fall short of the ideals of love and tolerance for everyone. Reading the essays and homilies posted by this member of the Franciscan order was refreshing, soothing, a reminder that while there are folks who are all about the self-aggrandizement, there are plenty of Christians who try very hard to live up to what I always thought was Christ's message: love everyone, tolerate people, be the kind of person you want everyone to be, don't exclude, don't hate. (And don't use selected parts of your religion's holy book to justify your fear and hatred.)
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