Finest Posts - May 2008 Nominations

Dear ILites,

April was a strengthening month for Finest Posts and women's empowerment. And with this post we are calling for nominations for May 2008. Remember, your task is easy and pleasurable. All you do is read more and more into the posts of IL, identify the posts that you feel bring a smile to your lips, a lump to your throat, a thought to your mind, a solace to your soul. Identify any, any, any post that you like, exercise a very personal preference. Find something that you want to share with the community, give the post and its writer more visibility. Nominate that post and sit back. Our job may not be so easy, but is just as pleasurable. We get a new reading list every month, one that make us happier and healthier in mind.

A couple of things that we wish to highlight about nominations from May 2008.

The IL admin has requested that the new thread calling for nominations for Finest Posts may be started only by the Moderators handling the contest. This is to maintain the parameters of time zones and cadence.

And as usual, if you nominate a post first and that post is a winner, the first nominating member gets a gift too. Talk of having your cake, eating it and wearing it on a rainy day!!!

And now, the ball is in your court while we sit back to read and enjoy another month's nominations. See you all later in this thread.

regards
Kamla and Vidya

Hello Ilites n Dear moderators...
I have stepped in to nominate the post for May month.Its Mithila Kanans ''Dear Mothers,Please lend me your ears!'' A very good advice to both parents and friends and closed ones...

love Moonbeams..

Dear Kamla and Vidya,
Before starting to nominate for May, let me first congratulate you both for the excellent work you are doing.
If there is a forum in IL which can be called the Finest, it should be this, as all the finest things in IL come here sometime or the other.
Like a child which shows the gifts it receives on its birthday to its friends, parents and all, I am showing a gift I received from my friend, Devika Menon, a poem, which I have posted in my birthday wishing thread.

Here's the link for the poem
Happy Birthday, Varalotti - you are a "legend" in IL!

It is post #31 in that thread.

The poem was sent to me by pm and I posted in this thread.

love,

Hi Finest MODs,

Here i come with my nomination. In this month of May, when we celebrate all of Motherhood, Mithila Kanan has once again proved with her very moving story , that all mothers love their kids in any circumstance, no matter if they have been treated worse than the worst. Her story just moved me to tears. When we come into this world with nothing, and go with nothing, in between, Money plays havoc with so much of our lives and causes untold misery for that human embodiment of love "mother" .

So here i nominate AMMA CAME HOME for the finest post for this month.

Vandhana

hi ladies,
my nomination goes to anand chitras post about how grand parents are put to trouble about taking care of their grandchildren, it has brought back the option of love taking over the duty and age catching up with helplessness.

Retired or Not retired?
regards sunkan

Dear Kamla and Vidya,
Two nominations from me on the same day! May be ageing (you know I crossed 50 a few days back) has done something to me, as it does to wine, books and friends.

I am pleased to second Vandhana's nomination of Mithila Kannans Post
Amma came Home

A very lively, live-wire piece I read in the past several months. Way to go, Mythili.

regards,
sridhar

Dear Moderators of FP Forum,
I have a pleasant assignment to do this morning. People have already started talking that I spend more time here in this forum than in Varalottis Stories, forum. That is true at least during the last two days.

Now I am pleased to nominate Vidya's Post talking about the FP nominations in April 2008. Well, she could have said, "We received 168 nominations of which 23 were invalid. And out of 145 valid nominations, we selected..." Thats what a Tehsildar or an accountant like me would have done. Instead she described the judgment process, made the applicable ground rules so clear, that any one who lost the contest in April would have actually loved his or her defeat.

Category-wise her post is merely an administrative announcement. Quality wise it is one of the finest examples of prose writing, turned into an art form.

I am pleased to nominate Vidya's Post (#6 in the April Winner Thread - link given below) to be considered the finest post for May 2008.

Finest Posts - April 2008 Winner!

love,

Dear Moonbeams,

Thanks for making the 'boni' and starting the May nomination thread rolling with a rocking nomination!
Mithila Kannan has proved again and again her versatility in writing, a worthy nomination indeed.

L, Kamla

Dear Sridhar,

It is really nice to see you here so early giving a nice start off to the May nomination thread.
And , thanks so much for your so very generous words for Vidya and myself and for this forum. I have people like you to look up to and emulate, hence it comes easy :)
I did read Devika's lovely poem and is rightly so that you bring it to the FP forum.
Thank you for it and thanks for everything.

L, Kamla

My dear fine friend,

Thanks for this nomination of yours. I am yet to read this story and now with the nomination count towards it rising, I cannot wait to read it!
Thanks for showing up here Vandhana and thanks for your nomination.

L, Kamla