Blogisattva award nominations

I’m a little surprised to have been nominated for Blogisattva awards under three categories. The Blogisattva awards honor English-language Buddhism blogging during calendar year 2007, and the awards are “given wholly for merit, and not as a measure of blogs’ popularity” (which is a good thing in my case, since I don’t get a lot of visitors — I love you all, though!).

So the nominations were for (cue drumroll):

• Best “Life” Blog Post [Best Achievement Blogging in the First Person (as a diarist; writing of events in one's life; or offering personal thoughts)] for Visiting Maia’s Family
• Best Achievement Blogging Opinion Pieces or about Political Issues
• Best Achievement in Clean, Straightforward, Unaffected Design

I don’t expect actually to win any of these awards, because my blog is such a mishmash of different topics. I just write about whatever takes my fancy on any given day. Plus my political views aren’t exactly deep (I don’t even watch TV — I once had to ask someone who a character in a political cartoon was — it was Dick Cheney!). And was the design nomination for the old design or the new one? — I changed it a few weeks ago.

If I was going to get an award for anything I’d hope it was for the blog at Wildmind, where I do my best writing. Check out today’s very erudite post based on a quote by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, for example. Sheesh, I even did my own translation from the French! Pretentious? Moi?

Still, mustn’t grumble, as the Buddha probably said.

Oh, and do remember to check out the Blogisattva Awards shortlist for some writers that really deserve to be nominated — like my former student Justin Whitaker (nominated for “Blog of the Year” amongst other categories).

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