God Bless the Friend Who Gave Me the Kreative!

At least a week ago Amy Elizabeth of tbnranch gave me the Kreative Blogger Award. It has taken me way to long to publicly thank her for the gracious gift. Thank you so much, Amy Elizabeth. If you haven’t been to her blog (or even if you have) you should high-tail it over there! Here is her link.  http://tbnranch.com/ Back to my point, now. {Note: At the end of the post there is a backstory that tells an interesting coincidence about the title of this award and my own life}

I think this is a terrific idea for an award and name for an award. Everyone in the blogging community is creative, aren’t they? We create little worlds for each other with our words and photographs. It is a wondrous and lovely world. Amy Elizabeth creates a world with her poetry, and with everything else she writes. I create worlds, too. Optimistic worlds. For the award I am supposed to do a few things. The first was to thank Amy Elizabeth. Besides that, I have to post a link on her blog when I publish this post. The next task is to list 7 interesting things about myself:

1. When I was a kid I walked to and from the library reading as I walked. I never once fell down or ran into anything.
2. When we went to a family friend’s house when I was a kid, the family had a pony. They had to walk the pony from the barn, through the kitchen, and out the side door, in order to reach the fenced in riding area.
3. I didn’t learn to walk until I was 17 months old, but spoke in full paragraphs by the time I was 9 months old. Yeh—wordy then, wordy now.
4. My favorite vegetable is asparagus.
5. I met George McGovern when he campaigned for President the 2nd time. I swooned like a love-struck teenager. It made the Secret Service guys laugh.
6. I love to make potato and leek soup.
7. Someday I plan to live in a land called Hon-a-lee.

Now on to the 7 bloggers that I think are so creative! Remember—follow the same rules I did (publish your post, put the badge on your side bar, name your 7 things and list your 7 bloggers–and let them know–and let me know too). I love these blogs. Of course as always, I want to give it to all the blogs I read. But for my 7 this time –and each of these blogs is a wonderful place to visit:

1. Terri at http://dailysweetpeas.com/. She loves to read, she loves life, she is joy, joy, joy.
2. Wendell Brown at http://foreverpoetic.wordpress.com/. He always has splendid poetry, heartfelt comments and words. I just recently began following his blog. 
3. Mlissabeth at http://mlissabeth.wordpress.com/. She is a true wordsmith, crochet-er and lover of life. She is a life-affirmer, for sure.
4. Then there is the dear, dear Lady Barefoot Baroness Blog at http://tonij.wordpress.com/. Boy oh boy are you in for a treat. Go see her. She is the epitome of deep and real.
5. For a breath of fresh air and the joy she brings, visit http://breathelighter.wordpress.com/. You will be glad you did :-).
6. Now Carl at http://carldagostino.wordpress.com/about/ is so creative that if you looked up creative in your dictionary, i bet you would find a picture of him!
7. And then there is Madeline at http://madalund.wordpress.com/. She is creative in her approach to life and bogging. She is taking care of all kinds of things these days and is a treasure.
8. I know I said 7–but I am exercising my creativity. My list of creative bloggers cannot be complete without including dear Uta at http://auntyuta.wordpress.com. To follow her blog is a walk through an incredible, fascinating wonderful history and fabulous outlook on life. She lived through WWII, came out on the other side of it….is now in Australia—and is just terrific. 

Now. I promised you a back-story about Kreativ and my name. When I was in college, the summer between freshman and sophomore year I went on a retreat that was also a camping trip. We gathered around the campfire the first night to try to get acquainted and learn each others names. We played a game that involved clapping and reciting each name one at a time (we introduced ourselves). You said your first name, followed by a word that started with the first letter of your name.  So—the first person introduced himself: John—jodphurs. We all said ‘john-jodphurs. Then it was the next person’s name—Lisa; she said Lisa–literature; we said lisa, literature; john, jodphurs…..the game continued in that fashion. Of course we had to say it all very quickly….it came to be my turn and I said —Kate—Kreative—And the game stopped for a second as they hilariously protested that it started with a C! I responded laughingly—I told you I was creative! They responded Kate, Kreativ, and went on with the game.