Stand back. I’m thinking

  • Steven tagged me as a “think­ing blog­ger.” Like him, I’m inclined to think that get­ting hon­ors for think­ing just means that either we’re all lit­tle geniuses or no one is.

    So now accord­ing to “the rules” (which I’ll reprint at bot­tom, since that’s rule #2), I’m to turn around and tag five other Think­ing Bloggers.

    But what is a Think­ing Blog­ger? Going back to the orig­i­nal post — HERE – didn’t help me much. The author there seems to feel that it doesn’t need defin­ing. Is it a blog­ger who pur­sues Deep Thought, or one that just writes about, you know, stuff — what sweater they like, a new word their tod­dler learned, some­thing they heard on the radio? The secret truth about the blo­gos­phere — or one of them any­way — is that those things can actu­ally be quite pro­found. Hear­ing from peo­ple that don’t con­sider them­selves extra­or­di­nary writ­ing about things they don’t con­sider ter­ri­bly sig­nif­i­cant can have an effect that’s both extra­or­di­nary and significant.

    So if I’m tagged to list five blogs that make me think, I’d have to include some that prob­a­bly didn’t set out to do that. Those can be both sweet and mov­ing, but they also can plant lit­tle seeds of sym­pa­thy, won­der, joy and sor­row that may take days to ger­mi­nate. And of course the ones that chase big thoughts can also do that and more.
    So, on to the list (and like Steven, once I started I couldn’t keep it down to five):

    1. Molly’s “Close to Home” – HERE
    2. Alana’s “Morn­ing Cof­fee” – HERE
    3. Jan’s “World of Spec­u­la­tion” – HERE
    4. “The Anchoress” – HERE
    5. Fr. Mike’s “The Aban­doned Mind” – HERE
    6. Ortho­doxy Today’s blog – HERE

    So I mixed it up okay, right? I’ve got mostly women, mostly laity, mostly Ortho­dox and mostly non-professional blogs, but I’m still eclec­tic. I Think (< — seems to me that as a cer­ti­fied Think­ing Blog­ger, I get to cap­i­tal­ize the word ‘think’ from now on, right?) that sounds just about right.
    In keep­ing with the require­ments of the meme, here are the rules:

    1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think, [Done]
    2. Link to this post so that peo­ple can eas­ily find the exact ori­gin of the meme, [Done, but in case you missed it — Link<a onclick=“javascript:_gaq.push([’_trackPageview’, ‘/out/www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html’]);” href=”http://www.thethinkingblog.com/2007/02/thinking-blogger-awards_11.html”> HERE]
    3. thinkingblogger.jpgOptional: Proudly dis­play the ‘Think­ing Blog­ger Award’ with a link to the post that you wrote (here is an alter­na­tive sil­ver ver­sion if gold doesn’t fit your blog). [Ugh. It looks like an alien. I may dis­play it any­way just to spruce things up, but I will secretly long for a bet­ter icon.]

      4. Related posts:

      1. Good times and bad times
      2. Back here, think­ing about back there
      3. Do re meme
      4. Putting the “Lost Tomb” to bed
      5. On silence (again)

    May 14th, 2007 | Grace | 3 Comments |

3 Responses and Counting...

  • s-p 05.14.2007

    I think I’m impressed with this post! :)

  • Grace

    No, you Think you’re impressed. As another award-winner, I believe you’re enti­tled to the same cap­i­tal­iza­tion. By golly, there ought to be some perks to this, right?

  • s-p

    Ah yes, the BIG “T”.… now that’s Ortho­dox! :)

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