Nominated for the Liebster Award

I’m so grateful and thankful to have been nominated for the Liebster award – thank you Keerthana for the acknowledgement! I love spreading love and giving people a voice. Thank you for asking me to share mine 🙂

For the people who don’t know about this award, I would like to give a brief about it. The Liebster award is an award given to a blogger by bloggers, as a way to support a budding blogger. This way we can support growing bloggers who are already influencing the community.

Liebster Award Rules

• Thank the blogger who nominated you and provide the blog link of the nominator.
• Answer the questions of the nominator.
• Share 11 facts about yourself.
• Nominate minimum 5 and maximum 11 other bloggers for the award.
• Ask 11 questions to your nominees.
• Notify your nominees once you’ve uploaded your post.

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QUESTIONS FROM KEERTHANA

Q1: What are your thoughts on sustainable fashion?

I absolutely love the idea of sustainable fashion! I try to buy my clothing second-hand as much as possible to reduce my own carbon footprint. Did you know that because most of our clothing is made from synthetic textiles (things like nylon and polyester), they release microplastics when washed that pollute the water supply?

Q2: What are the qualities you believe a great leader should possess?

Comprehensive listening. What I mean by that is someone who takes in what is being said and understands it, not someone who only listens so they can find a way to make their input. Effective comprehensive listening means understanding, following another’s train of thought, and NOT interrupting. If people know they’re being heard and understood, they are more likely to cooperate with you.

Q3: List your favorite quotes?

*sweats nervously* Okay, so I’m one of those people who has long, long lists of quotes but I’ll try to narrow it down to just a few.

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Q4: On which network you post regularly and why?

I’m a huge user of Tumblr because I love that there is a strange mixture of deep thought and chaotic energy. Honestly, my blog there is a mess of human rights, feminism, and sh!tposts…

Q5: What are you most thankful for and why?

Mother Nature, I really don’t think she gets enough love for everything she does for us. She brings forth life in the form of animals and vegetation, both of which are used for human consumption. She gives water, fire, earth, air… without her, we would not be, and I find that that fact alone means she is deserving of love and care. Plus she gave me my dog which was pretty cool.

Q6: What made you a blogger?

I took a creative writing class in high school and one of the requirements was creating and maintaining a writing blog throughout the entirety of the class. After the class ended, my teacher asked me to continue my blog, especially with my poetry. She was such a huge inspiration to me and I’m so thankful for having her in my life. We continue to be great friends and share poems and stories with each other, and I can’t think of a better way of thanking her than to continue sharing my writings with others.

Q7:What’s your first post on your blog and why you chose that?

It’s a post called “Strangers In the Rain” and it’s the only writing from my class that I kept on the blog, I believe. It was the first piece of my own writing I ever really fell in love with and it was the first I’d ever shared publicly. For me, it was a huge achievement in overcoming my extreme anxiety and privateness.

11 FACTS ABOUT ME

1. I work at a coffee shop which I absolutely love because I have a serious caffeine addiction. It’s a problem.
2. I hate making small talk, I prefer to dive right in to deep intellectual conversations.
3. I’m a heavy metal and hard rock fan
4. I’m a huge advocate for human rights (lgbtq+, black lives, gender equality), which means, yes, I’m a feminist.
5. I consider myself pansexual because gender means absolutely nothing to me in terms of attraction
6. I have attended several conventions (including Star Trek and Lord of the Rings themed ones because I’m a HUGE nerd)
7. I cross stitch
8. I’m an optimistic pessimist which means I’m either right about worst-case-scenarios or pleasantly surprised
9. I’m obsessed with true crime cases, especially the unsolved ones
10. My dog’s name is Artemis. She is named for the Greek goddess of the hunt, but she runs into things a lot so we call her Moose for short.
11. I’m a history buff

BLOGGERS I AM NOMINATING

I’m only nominating 4 because they’re the only ones on here that I follow (if anyone has some suggestions, I’d love to take a peek!)

House of Heart

Miri Elm

Stumble Upon Serendipity

bereavedandbeingasingleparent

QUESTIONS FOR MY NOMINEES

1. What inspires you to write and why?
2. What is one quality you wished you possessed but struggle with?
3. What’s a sound that you love?
4. What is your go-to movie or show?
5. What is your favorite part about yourself? It can be physical or metaphysical 🙂
6. Who is your favorite historical figure and why?
7. What is something you’ve tried that you will NEVER do again?
8. What is one of your favorite holiday traditions? Can be any holiday.
9. When you are old, what is one thing you think your children (if you have any) will ask you to tell stories about?
10. Describe your life using 3 words
11. What gives you courage?

I can’t wait to see your answers and what kinds of questions you come up with!