Not overheard, but...

OK, we at Overheard in Ithaca get a lot of mail from people wanting us to mention their blog, link to their blog,  just READ their blog.  This particular blog has nothing to do with Ithaca, nothing to do with being Overheard, but this young blogger from Poland seemed to serendipitously walk that fine line between earnest and whimsical entirely by accident, that we search for, so we thought we'd share: 

All right now I can say that I am a brother. Oh my God I can't believe it. Really very crazy feeling. Since 1994 to 2011- by 16 years I was alone without any brother or sister and now I have little Kuba. He was born 4 of July in Independence Day in the United States. During pregnancy everything was fine, I had other ideas and thoughts but now ?. Now I have 100 thoughts per second. Everything will change, I did not expected that today will give me so much to thought. Small baby with small eyes, small nose, small mouth. Kuba has 56 centimeters tall and he weights 3.9 kg. I weighed 4.6 kg so it's quite a lot. It's funny because human begins to remember when he is "about" 5. All of us had to live 5 years that begin explore the world. Already I would like to play with him with football. Anyway I'm sure that now time will change fot the better, I won't be alone and I'm not afraid about sleepless nights. Tomorrow next visit in hospital, well I must to see my mum also. I hope that tomorrow I'll see his eyes because today he was still sleeping and taking breaks for food. What else I can say ?
Welcome to the family Kuba :-)


http://bianchii.blogspot.com/

Not overheard, but: Lemonade!

Overheard in Ithaca is as pleased as punch to let you know we have won a Lemonade Award, presented to "blogs with great attitude and/or gratitude." This award was kindly (and surprisingly) bestown upon us by the Head Blogger at http://itsjustme-wendy.blogspot.com/ and we thank her with all our little bloggy hearts even though we've never met. We weren't even sure there was anyone out there listening, now we know, yay!

Now we have the responsibility and honor of passing this on to our favorite bloggers, so here goes, in no particular order:

http://overlooksasda.blogspot.com/ This blog is now password protected but we love it to smithereens so we hope you can get in past the big guy at the velvet ropes. Have your passport in hand, it couldn't hurt (or you could always ask us to put in a word for you at the gate).

http://tjbible.blogspot.com/ Bilingual blog with lots of wonderful photographs by old friends, what more could you ask for? Clicking on it is as good as taking a vacation.

http://www.tokyo-girl.blogspot.com/ A world-class blog that breaks your heart.

http://www.dervala.net/ Just take a look and see if you aren't lifted up and away.

http://drydendailykaz.blogspot.com/ And of course the (very) local scene with a global perspective and great pictures right out the front window to boot.

http://molliegoestomainstreet.blogspot.com/ We don't know if this really counts since it's a one-time story, but it's so evocative we couldn't leave it off.

http://clarkberg.org/ Who else makes you think about triangles?

http://overheardinpdx.blogspot.com/ And last but not least, the one that gave us the idea in the first place, the one that can still make us homesick.

Thank you all for making our day more interesting, and if you are one of these Lemonade Award winning blogs, please pass this honor on to your favorite blogs.