I was tagged long, long ago for this by one of my favorite new (to me) book blogging discoveries, Kathy.  Her blog is terrifically fun, and she’s a very smart gal.  Go check her out if you haven’t already met her.  You’ll be glad you did.

This meme was kind of difficult to do.  I think that once we’re old enough to make decisions about our own lives, our values become so much a part of us that we take them for granted.  They just exist, like the sky.  I enjoy working on these types of exercises, because they make me remember what it means to be human.  How fortunate I am to be able to analyze and synthesize abstract concepts and derive meaning from them.  It’s great to be alive and communicable (and not in a diseased way)!

So, here are six values that are important to me, six things I do not support, and six bloggers to share this with:

Six values that are important to me

1. Freedom
2. Humor (Is humor a value?  Humor has value, so that’s good enough for me).
3. Integrity
4. Courage
5. Respect
6. Tolerance

Six things I do not support

1. Dishonesty
2. The blame game
3. Racism (sexism, ageism, any related ”ism”).
4. The religious right; Christian fundamentalists; evangelicals
5. Repressive regimes
6. Brussels sprouts 

Six bloggers to share this with

1. Verbivore - who makes me think.
2. Jill - who makes me laugh.
3. Jennifer – who I feel is a kindred spirit.
4. Care – who is sweet and personable (and is gifting me her dog). 
5. Jack – who is appealingly strange, or strangely appealing.  It depends on the time of day.
6. Stephen – who is a redheaded British gentleman, which totally works for me.