who'd have thunk?

My dear friend lili has very kindly presented me with a Thinking Blogger Award.

Along with this meme/award comes the great responsibility of sharing the love. Here are the rules:

1. If, and only if, you get tagged, write a post with links to 5 blogs that make you think,
2. Link to this post so that people can easily find the exact origin of the meme,
3. Optional: Proudly display the 'Thinking Blogger Award' with a link to the post that you wrote

There are multitudinous worthy bloggers, not least among them several loved-ones of mine. However, I have decided on this occasion to spread the tendrils of linkage a little further afield, and acknowledge some people who I do not know personally, but whose blogs constantly set my brain ticking over.

1. The Adventures of QueerPenguin - from politics to pop-culture, Sam always has a fascinating perspective.
2. Forksplit - a blogger from the US whose stories about her life are at times hilarious, and always astonishing.
3. Jabberwocky - she writes about her family with disarming humour, honesty and pathos.
4. Pavlov's Cat - quite simply one of the Australian Blogosphere's national treasures.
5. The Supermercado Project - gotta love a man who makes you think and laugh at the same time.

Ah, blogging! It really is just one big love-in, isn't it?