The Honest Scrap Award

Today, the daddy is smiling. Why? Because he has received another one, The
the Honest Scrap Award. This award is about bloggers who post from their heart,
who oftentimes put their heart on display as they write from the depths of their soul. I am honored to be viewed as one of those writers by Revvy Reb, who graciously and generously passed on this award to me. Revvy Reb, I thank you.

There are some simple rules to accept this award:
1. List 10 honest things about yourself, hopefully interesting.
2. Pass the award on to 7 bloggers.

10 Honest things about me.

1. Like my father, I feel a need to serve community, especially African American communities.
2.I love being with people but not too long. Sometimes I can't wait to go to a small family cafe with good coffee or the local bar with good beer to think and write.

3.I have not fully recovered from working for years with youth(especially gangbangers, male perpetrators and abused women. Watching several dead kids I knew lying in the street broke my heart. So did taking women who had been beaten up by their boyfriends or husbands to an emergency hospital. I can still see those battered faces behind bloody towels.

4. I believe in a creator, but I'm very suspicious of religion and churches.

5. Sometimes, I give mixed messages to my friends. When they talk, I nod my head to let them know I understand. But they sometimes take it to mean that I agree with them. Sometimes it causes confusion.

6. I am obsessed with my privacy.

7. With the help of friends, I got one of my three books published. But I fear the other two never will be.

8. Despite being a positive guy, I occasionally get sad when I think about
the losses in my life.

9. I have embarrassed my self in the worse way. I worked with a group of southeast Asian gangs. When the group was done, their families and elders held a big celebration in my honor. They blocked off the street and cooked a pig whole with the head on it right in the middle of the street. And they kept bringing me food that smelled of pork. I hadn't eaten pork in about 20 years. Finally, I threw up in a plate of food a women brought to me. Time to leave that celebration!

10. I believe in love, but I don't think it believes in me.

I check out lots of blogs, but here are several that I enjoy precisely because they write so well and with honesty.

1. CurvyGurl Chronicles--http://www.curvygurlchronicles.com/
2. Ephphata--http://ephphatha3.blogspot.com/
2. From the Left--http://fromtheleft.wordpress.com/
3. Keep It Trill--http://keepittrill.blogspot.com/
4. Sagacious Hillbilly--http://sagacioushillbilly.blogspot.com/
6. The Enclave--http://enclave-lion.blogspot.com/
7. Thermophylahillbilly--http://wwwwendolbloggercom.blogspot.com/

The daddy apologies for not selecting of the more established, well-now blogs. He is a little biased to the newer ones at this point. Nonetheless, these 7 blogs stack up well with the best of them. What they do so well is speak from the heart. If you haven't already, please check them out.

Thanks, Revvy Rev.