Awards, Awards!

My first blog at Blogspot, Bonde Andando, is now running for an award: TOP BLOG.

It's been with surprise that I got the stamp. I was not told a word about by whose appointment my blog is now running for a Top Blog award. I have no previous experience whatsoever with awards, and never thought I ever would. Maybe I have already got secret friends somewhere the blogosphere over, who knows?

The surprise was no doubt a very pleasant one. Lucky me, I thought. I'm not an important blogger. Not a famous one, either. True, Bonde Andando enjoys a relatively small - however faithful - readership. But I just can’t help thinking of my blog in its own right as average, just average.

The themes dealt with therein are average. My wording is plain. There's neither any great depth nor any far reach ever to be found anywhere in my text. It’s nothing much, in all senses, whatever the viewpoint. I like to write poems and I post some there, but I never thought of myself as being much of a poet. In fact, I feel I'm more of a free time rhymester. I’m just someone who likes to scan and rhyme lines exclusively for the fun I find about the whole thing.

The blog is not visually beautiful, which may represent one attraction of less. Just words, just text, plain text. I never exploited the tools available, most of them I haven't even taken the time to learn how to use.

Only the readership of Bonde Andando I deem really special. It's nothing short of an asset to the blog. A relatively small gathering of fellow bloggers from all walks of life, with all sorts of backgrounds generously share their opinions by commenting my posts. They give me much support by reading and liking whatever I write and then by telling me so through their comments.

But what if the blog ends up a winner? Considering such a possibility - no matter how realistic it is - is just natural now.

Well, in case my Brazilian "streetcar on the move" ever comes to be awarded, then I will in all likelihood start viewing the blog as somehow outstanding on the account of such award, though still as average as always. Something like an "outstandingly average" blog.

On what will come next there is of course no telling.

Come what may, I'll always acknowledge here, there and everywhere an indebtedness to my readers, my commenters, all my virtual friends.