Friday Blogs--Promoting other Sites

 Friday is not usually a day that I post. I have enjoyed either seeing or writing on other people's sites when they are meeting challenges for poetry or "55 word Stories," or simply asking people their opinions.  Since people are so kind to me without exception, one thing I hope to start doing on weekends will be to refer folks to other blogs for whatever reason strikes me. It seems sort of like a courtesy I can extend to bloggers I follow as well as those who follow me. And if sometimes I do it on a different day, well, that's me I'm afraid.

Some are artists/artisans. Some are poets or writers of other sorts. Some are photographers and/or painters. I read their blogs for all sorts of reasons, so it is an ecclectic bunch. But, then, a committee of wackos inhabits my brain, so why wouldn't my collection reflect that?

Because today(Friday) is busy for me, I'm simply going to cite two.
1. I have just had fun doing this exercise over on One Minnesota Writers' Blog. She Calls it "First Five Fragments for Friday." I don't know why in particular this struck me--perhaps because it was light, and so much of what we see on tv and read in the papers is anything BUT.

2. And as fort Pearl, Why You Little ...? I don't know what to say except that she just often makes me guffaw. Clearly she does this for her million plus followers, but I don't care. I had to list her.

That's all for today, most likely. I had a re-run of unremitting pain for about twenty-four hours. Laughter got me through, and launched me for today.  I know I follow many other bloggers I find funny, but for now? For now, I'll just stick with these two, one because her entry today gave me something simple to do for myself, the other because most days, I am assured a laugh or six.

And I'm not looking for comments-- I simply hope to find ways to group every one of the bloggers I follow and/or who follow me, to promote the tremendous talent and kindness I run into every day I am at my computer. It will take me a while, but giving back should be part of blogging ... at least for me. It is not likely that I will promote more than three in any one day. I simply feel that each of the blogs I follow has something that hits me--sometimes witty, sometimes funny, or profound, or touching, or beautiful. Or it just satisfied some quirk of mine. These two did it for me today.

Have a wonderful weekend. My niece, a freshman in college, is coming to get away from it all for tomorrow and Sunday. My focus will be, naturally, on her.

Two Others on Saturday--Then I'm Done (Gotta Get My Niece)
I talk about my having the chance to view other lives, and to meet kind people.
1.) Sometimes she is quirky and entirely nuts--qualities you know I enjoy. Sometimes her pictures simply give me peace, as can the life she writes about. Kerry's Farmlass is the blog.  Her life is very different from mine, yet there are points of overlap. I simply like her. She makes her living through photography, painting, and felt work. I have to promote people who take the plunge to pursue their art to make a living. I just have to!

2.) Finally, Sian. Life on a Small Island is simply about that. She lives on one of the Orkney Islands and her photographs and stories of her life hit a place way inside. She soothes my soul. Period.

Now I really WILL stop with the blog promotion for the week. I'm picking up my niece at noon and we are having art time together. She has a special big white shirt that was my dad's that she loses herself in. Already she has found that she can forget all about it with painting and being dopey with her aunt for a day. You can well imagine how easily I can lose myself with her, too. I can never lose when she is here overnight.

Have a wonderful weekend.