I can actually smell the flowers, honestly !.......फुलात दंग.....

“I'm extremely honest, and I pride myself on it. I don't try to be shocking. I'm playful, and I know when something I'm saying is maybe shocking, but it's just the truth, I never wanted to be scary to people or upsetting to people. I simply want to live the way I need to live.”


Actually, I never said that.

Angelina Jolie did.

And while I am certainly not in competition with her, shocking/playful/scary or otherwise, (and I can see people shaking with apoplexy at the thought of talking about me and Angelina in the same breath), it will be appreciated that it is indeed something to be grateful for, when someone else declares you are honest, as opposed to declaring it yourself to the press.........

Priya, of Dreaming in Suburbia, has sent me this Certified Honest Blogger Award . I cherish this, coming as it does from someone my daughter's age. Thank you.

I would like to pass this award to Darlene, who probably is more honest and has more guts than all of us together, and is the oldest blogger I know.........

Usha , from the garden city of Bangalore, has sent me another award. The Flower Smeller award !

They say that God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December.

While I am probably up to October, by now, it has been fun writing about the memories, and yes, one can already smell the fragrance....

This explains the award .

(This badge serves to acknowledge others who are, in their own way, smelling the flowers.

They maybe regular visitors to the GO! Smell the flowers community, one of our founders blogs or someone that could contribute here who is yet to visit! Maybe they have recovered from an illness, written a book, made waves in the blogosphere, won the lottery, inspire others, made a major shift in their life, won promotion, quit the rat race, raising a family, discovering their greatness and on it GO!s as more examples from around the world start to surface. They may not even have an online presence at all - that’s where this award differs!)

I would love to pass this award on to Vivek, Lakshmi, Hip Hop Grandmom, and Lilly.....

This has been a busy time, starting of the New Year, and getting the opportunity to start a Limerick Blog, in partnership with some folks I met in the blogosphere.

While we are confidently unsure of our poetic abilities, I assure you that established limerickers need not feel insecure.

Honestly ! :-)