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The Versatile Blogger Award: the Rules

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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versatileblogger111I was nominated for this award by tuttacronaca on 28 January 2013. “Versatile” is a word people have often used to describe me.  I have taught many subjects.  I therefore became  a “versatile” teacher.  As for my students, if I mentioned Montaigne and Montesquieu when teaching Pascal, they thought I was “jumping around.”  I wasn’t.  All three wrote about the relativity of laws.

I thank tuttacronaca most sincerely.  He is an extremely versatile blogger.  In fact so are most of my readers.  They read my posts despite the diversity of subjects.  Diversity was Jean de La Fontaine‘s motto.

Choosing nominees is not easy.  For instance, two of my nominees for the Versatile Blogger could have been Sunshine award nominees.  And two of my Sunshine Award nominees could have been Versatile Blogger nominees.  But most of my Sunshine award nominees are versatile bloggers and vice versa.

Nominating a WordPress colleague for an award is a way of telling that colleague that I enjoy his or her posts.  I simply wish I could have nominated more of my WordPress colleagues.

There are rules

I apologize.  I forgot to provide the rules.

First, you must link back to me. You may do this by writing a comment when you receive this post.

Second, You must reveal seven facts about yourself.

Third, You must nominate ten other blogs.

My nominees are:

About me

  1. In my opinion, we should pay more attention to the education of little children.
  2. Facts are essential, but my main goal as a teacher was to encourage students to widen their horizon and see the many facets of subjects we were discussing.
  3. Living in France had a permanent influence on the manner I dress, cook, live and think.
  4. I have had fine friendships with exceptional men.
  5. I fear extremists.
  6. I am a pianist and an artist, which may demonstrate versatility.
  7. My chief cause is peace.

I love you all.

composer: Joseph Haydn  (31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809)
piece:  Serenade

The Versatile Blogger Award

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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versatileblogger111I was nominated for this award by tuttacronaca on 28 January 2013. “Versatile” is a word people have often used to describe me.  I have taught many subjects.  I therefore became  a “versatile” teacher.  As for my students, if I mentioned Montaigne and Montesquieu when teaching Pascal, they thought I was “jumping around.”  I wasn’t.  All three wrote about the relativity of laws.

I thank tuttacronaca most sincerely.  He is an extremely versatile blogger.  In fact so are most of my readers.  They read my posts despite the diversity of subjects.  Diversity was Jean de La Fontaine motto.

Choosing nominees is not easy.  For instance, two of my nominees for the Versatile Blogger could have been Sunshine award nominees.  And two of my Sunshine Award nominees could have been Versatile Blogger nominees.  But most of my Sunshine award nominees are versatile bloggers and vice versa.

Nominating a WordPress colleague for an award is a way of telling that colleague that I enjoy his or her posts.  I simply wish I could have nominated more of my WordPress colleagues.

My nominees are:

About me

  1. In my opinion, we should pay more attention to the education of little children.
  2. Facts are essential, but my main goal as a teacher was to encourage students to widen their horizon and see the many facets of subjects we were discussing.
  3. Living in France had a permanent influence on the manner I dress, cook, live and think.
  4. I have had fine friendships with exceptional men.
  5. I fear extremists.
  6. I am a pianist and an artist, which may demonstrate versatility.
  7. My chief cause is peace.

I love you all.

composer: Joseph Haydn  (31 March 1732 – 31 May 1809)
piece:  Serenade

A Nomination from Micheline’s Blog

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

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On January 2, 2013, our colleague Jay Morris, The Wayward Journey, made my world a brighter place by nominating me for a Sunshine Award.  I was delighted.

As Jay wrote, some people do not accept awards.  In my opinion, one should have a choice in the matter.  If you do not accept awards, please look upon my nominating you as a personal tribute to excellent blogs.  I should think, you can also tell you have been nominated.  In fact, if you know how to do this, I believe you may put the nomination in your sidebar.  This is a process I have yet to master.  I’ve tried, but made a mess.

There are rules.

First, you must link back to me. You may do this by writing a comment when you receive this post.

Second, You must reveal seven facts about yourself.

Third, You must nominate ten other blogs.

This is what I said about myself:

  1. I am respectful of others, whatever their ethnicity, rich or poor, etc.
  2. I had a very loving and generous husband.
  3. Nature gave me an insightful mind and good looks.
  4. Music, the fine arts, books and cats have brought me great pleasure.
  5. I enjoy a “café society.”
  6. I prefer the indoors, but let the outdoors in and the indoors out.
  7. My favourite outing is joining dear friends for a dinner, or just coffee, and good conversation.

My nominees are:

I have been nominated for another award, which means there will be other nominees. I love you all.
 
 
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composer: Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904)
piece: Serenade in E Major for Strings, Op. 22: II. “Tempo di valse”
performers: Münchner Philharmoniker
conductor: Rudolf Kempe  (born 14 June 1910 in Dresden, died 12 May 1976 in Zürich)

A Nomination from the Wayward Journey

04 Monday Feb 2013

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On January 2, 2013, our colleague Jay Morris made my world a brighter place by nominating me for a Sunshine Award.  I was delighted.

There are rules.

First, I must link back to me.  I believe a I must link back to the person who nominated me.  Please click on Thank you Jay.

Second, I must reveal seven facts about myself.  Now, that is very difficult.

Third, I must nominate ten other blogs.  That is also difficult

Let’s go to second:

  1. I am respectful of others, whatever their ethnicity, rich or poor.
  2. I had a very loving and generous husband.
  3. Nature gave me an insightful mind and good looks.
  4. Music, the fine arts, books and cats have brought me great pleasure.
  5. I enjoy a café society.
  6. I prefer the indoors, but let the outdoors in and the indoors out.
  7. My favourite outing is joining dear friends for a dinner, or just coffee, and good conversation.

My nominees are:

I have been nominated for another award, which means there will be other nominees. I love you all.
 
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composer: Antonín Leopold Dvořák (September 8, 1841 – May 1, 1904)
piece: Serenade in E Major for Strings, Op. 22: II. “Tempo di valse”
performers: Münchner Philharmoniker
conductor: Rudolf Kempe  (born 14 June 1910 in Dresden, died 12 May 1976 in Zürich)

Blog Awards Night

30 Sunday Dec 2012

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Les Bacchantes d’Ernest Biéler, Fête des Vignerons (Wine growers’ Celebration)

Ernest Biéler (31 July 1863 in Rolle, Switzerland– 25 June 1948 in Lausanne)

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This year, I was nominated for two awards.  On 4 December 2012, Carolynpageabc nominated me for a one star Blog of the Year.  Had I been truly competent, I would have shared my good fortune by displaying that I was a nominee in my sidebar and by nominating WordPress colleagues for an award.  I have yet to learn how to insert pictures and information in a sidebar.

Dear Carolyn, I thank you most sincerely for enjoying my posts.  I feel honored.

To be very honest, it would have been difficult for me to choose one post as the best because WordPress has extraordinary bloggers some of whom are now friends.  However, allow me to praise you, Carolyn, for the post hiding behing the following link:

http://abcofspiritalk.wordpress.com/

one-lovely-blog-award1On 22 September 2012, George B. also had the kindness of nominating me for a Lovely Blog Award.  I was very touched.  One does not expect awards.  As soon as I have learned how to decorate my sidebar, I will indicate that I had the pleasure of being nominated, simply nominated.

This was a difficult year.  It seems everything that could go wrong went wrong.  But you did not fail me.

http://euzicasa.wordpress.com/2012/09/22/one-lovely-blog-awards-another-award-this-time-from-alilcm/

I wish to thank George B. and Carolyn for nominating me and would like to congratulate the winners.

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Swiss-born Ernest Biéler was an eclectic artist.  He studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and won a silver medal at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1900.  He co-founded the École de Savièse with Rafael Ritz and Édouard Vallet.

Beethoven: Romance for Violin No. 1 In G Major, Op. 40

Ernest Bieler (1863 - 1948)m© Micheline Walker
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