January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Working to Change the World

I am creating this new award to recognize those bloggers at WordPress who are working to make a difference in the world.

Recipients of the Working to Change the World Award work hard and sincerely to make the world a better place, using their compassion, love, and understanding, and promoting open minds, free communication of ideas and, above all, peace.

There are people who do not accept awards who are deserving, and I just want you to know that I appreciate all of the work that you do on your Blog here at WordPress, and I am proud to be part of the WordPress Family with you.

The Rules:

Post the award on your blog
Link back to the person you nominated you
List one thing — however small — that you think would make the world better if everyone did it
Nominate bloggers whom you feel help to Change the World — there’s no minumum or maximum, just a list of those you feel are deserving

The very first nominees for the Working to Change the World Award are:

January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Hope

Let’s work together to answer this question. We need peace in the Middle East. Hugs, Barbara

Kindness Blog

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January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Cracking Chrispmous Bloggywog Award

Again, I am blessed by the nomination from the lovely Dr. Rex, who has nominated me for the Cracking Chrispmous Bloggywog Award, created by the ever-inventive petitemagique. These two wonderful women are a potent combination who always light up my life!

~~In the words of Patty (Petite Magique) herself:~~

The “Cracking Chrispmouse Bloggywog Award” is given to someone who “spreads one or more of joy, peace, hope and love” with their blog! The receiver of this award can pass it on if you wish to ANYONE who satisfies the above rule of spreading one or more of those lovely things. There’s no minimum or maximum number of blogs you can pass it on.

Based on that criterion, here’s my list — it may be long, but these are wonderful, joyful, peaceful, hopeful, loving people, one and all!

January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Field of Flowers Award

The wonderful and generous Dr. Rex has nominated for this award, created by Patty from http://petitemagique.wordpress.com, In Patty’s words:

~~The Field of Flowers Award~~

Note: I have created this new award because there are some people who I would give a field full of flowers if I could.

Not just a couple of flowers… No, a field full of them.

Because they can use it, to thank someone or because they simply deserve it. Flowers give color, flowers say ‘I Care’ and flowers are nature’s gift to us.

You give them to show someone you care or to celebrate something. Just spreading a little love and care.

Rules:

Thank the blogger who nominated you
Place the award on your blog
Nominate 7 other bloggers and write a little something about why you would give these bloggers A Field Of Flowers
Let your nominees know that you nominated them

Of course you don’t have to accept an award, just know you’re appreciated!

My reason for nominating the bloggers listed below is simple: they all brighten my life with their words, and I wish I could brighten their lives with a Field of Flowers in return.

January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Ten Best Science Discoveries of 2013

Cool science discoveries.

January 19, 2014 by IdealisticRebel

Fast Fact Attack: Endangered Species No. 98 – The Numbat

This little is very cute

Mungai and the Goa Constrictor

Numbat

“If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is Nature’s way”
Aristotle – Nichomachean Ethics

One significant fact to cherish about the numbat is its relationship to the now extinct thylacine [1] or Tasmanian tiger. They were cousins. You may remember “Benjamin” the very last thylacine, who died in Hobart Zoo in 1936 in deeply sad circumstances. Numbat Ironically, the numbat is the only living member of its own family of marsupials – the Myrmecobiidae family . So it will be quite something if Australia manages to hang on to it. And… they are trying. A lot of dedicated people are doing all they can to keep the numbat alive, and, in general, it is held in quite high regard. In 1973, the then Governor of Western Australia, His Excellency Major General Sir Douglas Anthony Kendrew, declared and authorised this unique and rapidly declining species as…