Honorable Mention

This recipe  is tasty, quick, & easy!  I made it for the second time tonight.  My advice= be generous with the honey and go easy on the flour.  Mmm...divine :)

TED is a nonprofit organization that believes passionately that ideas have the power to change attitudes, lives, and ultimately, the world.  TED is dedicated to spreading ideas, and its website full of videos of talks and performances is one vehicle it uses to do so.  You can search for videos by length, topic, descriptors (i.e. inspiring, funny, jaw-dropping, etc.), speaker, and more.  Some of the speakers are world famous, and each is well-respected in his or her field.  You can watch anything from an impressive one-man orchestra: Andrew Bird's one-man orchestra of the imagination , to a medical visualization of fetal development: Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to Birth , to a human rights lawyer discussing social injustice:  Bryan Stevenson: We need to talk about an injustice . These are just a few talks that interest me, but there's a little something for everyone.  Technology, entertainment, design, business, science, & global issues are the main categories feature

The Civil Wars is a musical duo made up of John Paul White, vocals & guitar, and Joy Williams, vocals & occasional keyboard.  That's it.  They have no back-up band or other frills.  I would place them in the Folk genre, but I think that they would be appealing to people of varying musical tastes.  I could be wrong...you can decide for yourself since they so generously offer a live album for free to download from their website.  It's called Live from Eddie's Attic & you can find it by following this link:  The Civil Wars official website I'd also encourage you to listen to their cover of the Jackson 5's I Want You Back.  The Civil Wars completely make this classic their own.  I Want You Back - youtube I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!  I listen to them...frequently.  That may be an understatement...

It was Labor Day weekend, and a group of friends traveled to Chicago to reunite and celebrate a birthday.  Sunday afternoon was spent at the ballpark.  A feeling of euphoria passed through the group, and they found themselves incapable of pinpointing exactly what about this afternoon made it so tremendous. They tried to assign the top honor, "The Gold Star", to various things: the sunshine, the wonderful company, the delicious drinks, the baseball pants?  It seemed unfair to call just one of these things The Gold Star winner of the day.  Therefore, they gushed about all things wonderful.  Why must we denote a winner, when so many things are worthy of recognition?  This is the philosophical question that plagued them that fabulous day.  Thus the birth of a blog that celebrates greatness in many forms.  No winner will ever be assigned, rather everything featured can be considered worthy of mention.  Honorable Mention.  Who are we to pass final judgment anyway?  That job is best