Mentor

Originality. A particular or special idea can be original. We also say from human beings that they are "Originals" when, again, they are particular or special. I will not be original. What is to come below is simply "copy - paste". But then, I don't believe in re-inventing the wheel.

I received another award. The "Blogging Mentor Award". It is beautiful. It has been created by Sue from Australia. Here she says why she created this award:

I have gained so much more knowledge of blogging than I could possibly have learned just by researching the subject. This is all due to the help, support and encouragement I have received from other bloggers. I have therefore created the "Blogging Mentor Award" to recognize and thank those who help us on our path to blogging, be it encouraging and helping us to start blogging or helping us to be the best we can, once we have started.

This is the first wheel that I have not re-invented.

The award was passed to me by Laurie (Loz, Lozster). He tells us why he "gives" it further:

I thought that I would pass this onto people who have been regular readers and contributors to this blog through their comments and who have helped me on my journey. Back in the early days when my only reader was me I didn't realise how important other people would become. Slowly there began to be the odd comment here and there and the people below were those who really encouraged me to keep writing. So whether you may think so or not, you have all been my mentors. I have learnt by your comments and by my visits to your blogs. You have offered encouragement when I needed it, advice when I asked for it and it is through the generosity of your time that I have kept this blog going.

This is the second wheel I have not re-invented.

Sue has received "help, support and encouragement". Like me. Laurie was a "lone" writer in the blogging world until readers came. Like me. Or like all of us. And all of us are learning by reading our blogs.

It is with pleasure and joy I pass this award on. I will not be original. I simply give it to all in "My favorite blogs". But then, I feel very comfortable about it. Because (and I said this before) the list of my favorites has practically not changed since I made it. I have in there you, the ones, who bring and gave me a lot, since long. And, though not wanting to be "fussy", the list will not get longer and longer because I am "admitting" new "members" only sporadically.

Being a mentor goes both ways. You can mentor me and I can mentor you. 

So, my friends, I give this beautiful award to you:

Anji, Lifesinger, Titania, Jennifer. I have learned a lot from you, a lot about tenderness. You make me smile and also think. You are my mentors.

Dr. John, Hafez, Bill. What you write is full of sense. It makes me look further and deeper into things. You are my mentors.

Michael, Phil, Peter. You are showing me a different way of looking at things. You are my mentors.

Marie, Ashley, Pumuckl, Sue, Kai. Simplicity and joy of life make me come back and visit you. You are my mentors.

Gaby, Wanda. You are still young. And sometimes you express worries. And I try to give you an encouragement. Perhaps I am your mentor?

And finally, Laurie (and so the award comes to you again), your are on an extraordinary journey. You are my mentor.

Enough talking now. My thanks to you all and let's celebrate in joy and fly away, like a bird, like a "Pajaro Campagna".



Title: "Pajaro Campagna". Artist: "Los Paraguayos". Album: "Memories of Ipacarai". Buy it at Amazon.com