The Carnival of Healing (blog carnival) has been underway for over a year now. I've had the opportunity to meet up with so many wonderful bloggers through this experience. Organizing the carnval has taken some effort, but overall the experience has been a joyful one. I am especially appreciative of the bloggers who have helped me keep the carnival caravan's wheels turning by hosting the carnival on their blogs. I decided it was time for me to pay tribute to these wonderful people. I hope you enjoy this special Tribute To Our Carnival Hosts.

Before I get my Tribute Tour underway, I wish to announce that the carnival is going to return to its weekly schedule. Through the summer we scaled back to bi-weekly editions. As long as I continue to get enough interest in hosts signing up and also receive plentiful blog submissions I think a weekly edition is doable. We have hosts signed up for the next two weeks. Next week, September 23, the carnival will be hosted at Evolving Times, on Septemer 30, Live Consciously stepped up to take on the task. If you would like to take a turn hosting, you can sign up here.

I decided a unique way to pay tribute to our carnival hosts is to honor them by featuring them in a virtual bus tour. We will give an impromptu visit to each of their blogs throughout the day tomorrow (Saturday, Sept. 16). We'll stop by and say hello and discover what they are currently blogging about. Our virtual bus tour is going to be great fun! I just know that this ride will prove interesting. Put on your traveler's backpack and get ready to pay tribute to a super group of bloggers.

About once an hour starting tomorrow morning (Sept. 16) around 10 AM I will be updating this post with a new link along the various bus stops until I've visited each of our past hosts' blogs. There are about a dozen of them. Get in line and reserve your ticket for the "bestest" carnival bus ride in town!

Bus Stops Along Our Tribute Tour

• First bus stop (9:37 AM): Our first bus stop lands us at Intuitive Innovations. Our contributing host posts Living in transition... This past week Jaelin K. Reece (FKA Jodie Foster) celebrates her birthday by gifting herself with a new name. She posts "While I know this change is feeling strange right now, it will sink in over time. I see how much the process is about embracing the new identity and releasing the constrictions of the previous identity." For anyone who has made a name change or is considering one be sure to make regular visits to Intuitive Innovations to find out how this blogger deals with the vibrational energy shift of a name change over time. I think it is pretty exciting! Happy Birthday Jaelin!

• Second bus stop (11:12 AM):
  Intuitive Living posts The Golden Apple. Christopher Stewart often posts interesting astrological information. This article discusses a look at astrological chart drawn-up according to the naming announcement of the X planet to Eris, the Greek goddess of discord.
  
  Eris was the goddess who wasn't invited to the wedding of Peleus and Thetis. Enraged, she crashed the reception long enough to toss a golden apple into the midst of the other goddesses that was inscribed, "To the fairest."

• Third bus stop (12:15 PM):
  The Hip and Zen Pen posts Help Veggie Go Vegan which is a fitting bus stop for our lunch break. Just don't eat the spinach. Elisa Camahort may soon convert from vegetarian to vegan. She is looking for cookbook recommendations. Can you help her out?

• Fourth bus stop (1:22 PM):
  Brendan McPhillips Spiritual & Personal Growth posts What Happens in Heaven. This is a post that serves as a reminder to give thanks for our blessings. What are you grateful for? Have you sent an acknowlegement?

• Fifth bus stop (2:09 PM):
  Evolving Times posts Seeking Krishnamurti Quote on Enlightenment. Edward Mills is trying to find a quotation which had a profound impact on him twenty years ago. He remembers the gist of meaning that he gleaned from it at the time, but now wonders what the passage would reveal to him in his current state of awareness. If anyone knows the quotation Ed is seeking please leave a comment on his blog. Thanks. (note to Ed: Good luck finding the quote Ed! And I'll be sure to post the the questions and my answers in reponse to your The Nourishing Meme post in the next couple of days.)

• Sixth bus stop (2:58 PM):
  Our sixth bus stop on the Tribute Tour gives us a fun diversion. Dr. Deborah Serani, Psychological Perspectives posts Perception and Illusion - Tricky imagery and fun for the mind's eye!

• Seventh bus stop (3:33 PM):
  Spiral Visions posts Is Your Karma Messing Up You Dharma?. A short musing about challenges that get in the way of reaching the top of your Dharma "destiny" Mountain.

• Eighth bus stop (4:38 PM):
  Crossroads Dispatches posts Ground Zero. Evelyn Rodriguez writes about the lessons of 9/11 a few days prior to the fifth anniversary of this devastating event.

• Ninth bus stop (5:57 PM):
  Other Lights hasn't posted since hosting Carnival of Healing last week (if you missed it your can revisit it here). I dug deeper into his blog and uncovered Scott K. Smith's older post Healing in the morning describing his new routine of having healing thoughts first thing in the morning before he begins his day.

• Tenth bus stop (7:17 PM):
  Live Consciously posts Instant Change - Perspective. Ben Spencer writes "I started listening to my higher Selfs, wants and needs. And that’s when I had a shift in perspective. I started wanting to fulfill my higher Self’s wants and needs too, and to realize that I would be more satisfied with fulfilling those needs as well."

• Eleventh bus stop (8:35 PM): Our last stop on our Carnival Tribute Tour is Conservative Cat. Ferdinand and Bruce recently announced The Death of the Carnival Submit Form conceding to the blog carnival roundup at blogcarnival.com. Thanks for all the extra efforts you made to promote our carnival! Hugs and Cat purrs....

Affirmation of the Day

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