GITW awards: Amplified

Today we are proud to share with all of you a new feature of GITW-- our monthly award. Every month, on the 15th, we will announce the recipient, selected from among the posts we stumble on in our travels around the blogosphere and all of your nominations.

I think of the award recipient as a "Wow! What she said!" post, a post that stays with you, that calls to you, that shows you something you haven't thought of before. It can be short, it can be long, it can be lyrical, it can be hilarious piss-your-pants funny, it can be a rant. It can be anything that moves you.

This month, as the time was short and the idea new, we did both the nominating and the selecting. In the future, though, we humbly ask for your help. Unfortunately, the babyloss blogosphere is large, and the wider one is unfathomably humongous. Without your help, we will absolutely miss some of these incredibly insightful posts. And pretty please, with sugar on top, feel free to nominate yourself as well as anyone else. It's not at all weird. Honest. (And when we announce the winner, we will also list all the nominees for the month, so that everyone gets a chance to click their way through the richness.)

And this brings us to the official portion of today's program. The inaugural Glowing in the Woods award goes to...drum roll, please...

Lori from Losses and Gains for her post Never Enough Time.  It's a story of loss across generations, of time, of hard-won wisdom, and of course, of love. Go read it, and bring tissues.

I am particularly thrilled to be able to present this award to Lori today because she was one of the very first deadbaby mamas I "met" last year, and one whose words have always rang with quiet truth and wisdom to me. Congratulations, Lori! And please watch your email for your new bling.

Pst... There is another new post below this one. That's right-- it's a two post day. Hallelujah!