Vote for Best Just Posts of 2009!

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 honored to have a blog post (“250 Children Dead of Cold in Andes: Death Toll Keeps Climbing“) entered in the Child Welfare/health-wellness category and another (“Archbishop of Cusco to Evict More Local Restaurants“) in the Information & Advocacy category.  I didn’t write these posts to win awards.   I didn’t even “write” them in the normal sense of composing and editing. They were word-things born of outrage and frustration, at the senseless deaths of children in Puno due to Peru’s lack of a functioning Red Cross and at the greed of the Church’s highest ranking clergy in Cuzco. I wrote them to vent and to spur other people to act.

If you like what I have to say and want to raise awareness about problems in Peru, you can go to the Just Posts poll and vote for me in the Health & Wellness and Advocacy/Service categories, and best overall post category. You have until March 22 to register your vote.

And please read the other bloggers’ entries. There is some fantastic stuff there, and it feels good to know that there are many of us who want the world to become a better place. 

Spread the word!