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I’m the laziest online reader, so when The Versatile Blogger award arrived with a rule about linking to 15 more blogs I like, it wasn’t easy. There are so many good ones …
I flit from blog to blog, appreciating this post, that poem, this art … so here are 15 I recommend for inspiration, for appreciating heartfelt work, for connecting with other WordPress creators:
1. The Mindful Word: Mindful living, from meditation to traveling to vegan triathletes.
2. River Under Water: Heart-stirring art by Colleen Ponce.
3. Chicquero: Denis Braguini Bevacqua and Lailah Chamon Botelho from Brazil bring style and sauciness to their blog. This particular link has some great quotations with art.
4. Nature Blog Network: Found Mike Bergin’s WordPress/Sandbox project through a sweet little blog from Pennsylvania …
5. Some Little Crum Creek: This nature blog proves if you write what you know, photograph what draws your curiousity … readers will share your love of a little corner of creation.
6. My Daily Creativity: Therapist Angela Doo shows courage in probing her grief through a blog of art and writing and appreciation of the support of others.
7. Words/Love: I like Francesca Zelnick’s emphatic voice, as in “Don’t waste your light.” Who can argue with that? See her Margaret Atwood quotation, on “why I write.”
8. Kelly Buckley: Non-fiction author, speaker, motivational blogger, nurse … Kelly was born in Canada and lives in North Carolina. I admire her 100-day “JOLT Challenge” — just one little thing — and her call for a global conversation on “life, gratitude, compassion and resilience.”
9. Ify Okoye: It takes courage to write about one’s faith online in a country that doesn’t always make you feel welcome. Ify Okoye, self-described “recovering news junkie”, photographer, “rebel with a cause” and a nurse, emigrated from Nigeria, so has a refreshing perspective on American life, from New York. Check her “What I Learned in Nursing School” post.
10. Inspiration in Focus: From Colorado, fellow kayaker Melissa Johnson shares “felt photos”, John Muir quotations and simple advice: “Connect. Learn. Be inspired. Share. Reconnect. Repeat.”
11. 7th Heaven Photoblog: I’m always checking blogs from India, and am really impressed with the work of Preetam Nath, who describes himself as an 18-year-old BTech and ECE student in Karnataka. Only 18? Such a sensitive soul …
12. Cristian Mihaid: Cristian Mihai gathers a large community of writers and poses questions about what works and what doesn’t. Lively, engaging commentary, from Romania.
13. Mullings of a Mind Tramp: Romantic poetry from Guy Nickwell.
14. PhotoNatureBlog: The Internet thrives on powerful nature photos, so admire these from photographer Jeffrey Foltice in West Michigan.
15. 400 Days Til 40: Don’t want to spoil the fun for a blogger on a “quest to figure out life by 40.”
Thanks to all these creators for sharing their work worldwide, and congratulations for being the next to get The Versatile Blogger.
living in gratitude 
Hello, how have you been?
Thank you so much for nominating us.. best of luck
Lots of love from Brazil
Chicquero.com
Congratulations for the Versatile Blogger Award 🙂 If you have some time, do come by my blog : http://musewithcoffee.wordpress.com. I post daily musings, ebooks and daily insights that I find leaving a mark on our lives and inspiring us. I am not a photographer, but I am an avid reader and foremost an indie author. My ebook 12 Precious Anecdotes from Life is released in Amazon and I am pretty excited about it. It tells about celebrating life in all its beauty with a touch of adventure and inspiration. Its a fictional collection of 12 short stories. I could connect with your blog post. So I am sharing the book link with you – http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0087OXSS2. Have a great week ahead! Thank you
thanks, Payal. Your ebooks look great. Thanks for sharing your blog.
Life is good — better with love from Brazil! thanks!!
Hi Kathleen,
I’m honored and delighted to know you drop in on my love for Little Crum Creek.
I once heard that, in all we do, people are always just saying “please” or “thank you.”
Lots of us have the “please” part down. It’s nice to be part of your “thank you.”
Scott
Reading your blog then is please&thanks at once! Thanks for your lovely photos and words, on Little Crum Creek.
Kathleen, thank you, and please keep writing. I draw inspiration from your words and experiences. I hope that the sum of what we send forward into the world is more positive and good than negative.
I agree, Ify. Thank you for inspiring me too!