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My love asks good questions.
Guy sent me this questionnaire he made up. He's always doing this, but I liked this one especially.
1. What is your earliest memory?
2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly
influenced how you live your life?
If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?
3. Do you have a favorite place?
If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?
4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead (not
including me).
Who would you like it to be?
Why?
What do you want to talk about?
5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead (not including me).
Who would you like it to be?
What would you like to do?
Why?
1. What is your earliest memory?
2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly
influenced how you live your life?
If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?
3. Do you have a favorite place?
If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?
4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead (not
including me).
Who would you like it to be?
Why?
What do you want to talk about?
5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead (not including me).
Who would you like it to be?
What would you like to do?
Why?
My answers
I have a memory of going to visit my mother in the hospital after she had one of my brothers. I remember her looking through a window at me, and she was wearing bright red lipstick.
> 2. Is there a person, who you don't know personally, who profoundly > influenced how you live your life?
Oh, gosh, several.
> If yes, who is zie and how did zie influence you?
John Robbins (who gave up his inheritance in Baskin-Robbins to write books about veganism) taught me to look at my choices with reason and compassion.
Peter McWilliams, author, made it okay for me early in my search for meaning to look inside myself for the answers.
Joan Baez taught me about integrity and was my first example of a hippychick with solid ethics.
There are tons more, but those are the ones I can think of at the moment.
> > 3. Do you have a favorite place? > If yes, where is it and why is it important to you?
I don't have one favorite place. I love the benches down at the J Street pier - - great place to listen to the water and write. I also like this spot in the mountains called Green Valley Falls -- most of my favorite places have something to do with water. Oh, and the bigcomfy chairs at the City Heights library. :-)
> > 4. You can have a conversation with anyone you want, living or dead (not > including me). > Who would you like it to be? > Why?
Hm. My nana, probably. My mom says I would have adored her, and I've always felt the loss of not having known her. (I tried to think of someone lofty like Gandhi or Dr. King or someone, but I'd probably be too awed to have a decent conversation with those guys.)
> What do you want to talk about?
My mother as a child.
> 5. You can do anything with someone else living or dead (not including > me). > Who would you like it to be? > What would you like to do? > Why?
Easy. I wanna walk on the moon with Armstrong.