A few days ago, I received a pleasant surprise:  two of my blog posts have been nominated for the Best of 2009 Just Posts.  Just Posts for a Just World is a highly readable monthly roundtable of blog posts on social-justice issues from around the world.  It’s curated by Holly at Cold Spaghetti and Alejna at Collecting Tokens, who wade through the blogosphere each month to find personal posts that “speak to the same thing — the lifting up of our planet and all that inhabit it.”  The typical Just Post is candid and compassionate and outspoken, and reads like a real person speaking his/her own mind.  I like that. I’m…