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sherron0This thoughtful little exercise was brought to me by phantomminuet . (And my apologies to mercuryblue144, who tagged me for an equally interesting but longer game, which I promise to get to.)
RULES:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
phantomminuet . (And my apologies to mercuryblue144, who tagged me for an equally interesting but longer game, which I promise to get to.)RULES:
1. Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me."
2. I will respond by asking you 5 questions of a personal nature.
3. You will update your LJ with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this and an offer to interview someone else in the post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them 5 questions.
1. If your favorite kind of music was a color, what color would it be?
Hmm… Moody Blues?
2. Who has been the great love of your life, so far?
No, I’m not going to do the cop out mommy thing, and say, “of course, my sons.” But I do have to list two great loves of my life -- my first, and my last. My first great love and lover was my highschool/college true love, Eric R. I still love him, and after a year or so of hurting one another after we broke up, we were able to manage being friends. And still are. And of course, my last true love is my Beloved, Mark, my husband, and father of my boys.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
You know, I don’t remember wanting to be anything. From the time I can remember, it was just always assumed (because I was a little precocious and this was was smart people became) that I would be a doctor, and I thought that was okay. I was in college before I realized that that was not a pre-ordained, inescapable thing.
So now, having learned that what I wanted to be was a mother and homeschool teacher for the first half of my adult life, I’m struggling to figure out what I want to be for the rest of my adult life.
4. Where is the most spiritual place that you have ever visited and why?
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, for all the obvious reasons, and despite tourists being allowed there to gawk. I expected to just admire some architecture and statuary and stain-glass. But from the moment I entered, I felt the presence. The Holy. The Mystery. The One. A peace, and an aching, and exultation. I went in and knelt, and prayed, knowing for sure this time, that I was “heard”, or, more like acknowledged. I was more alive than I’d ever been, more complete. Even now, thirty years later, that memory still grounds me.
In your opinion, what one change would immediately make the world a better place?
If humans somehow were given some inner mechanism that prevented them from killing other humans. Something that kicked in whenever he was about kill, order to be killed, or set in motion events that would kill others, and cause immediate paralysis and sterility.
As far as something that might actually be possible, I think everyone in the world, man, woman, and child, being given a solar battery powered laptop with constant access to the world wide web might help.
Hmm… Moody Blues?
2. Who has been the great love of your life, so far?
No, I’m not going to do the cop out mommy thing, and say, “of course, my sons.” But I do have to list two great loves of my life -- my first, and my last. My first great love and lover was my highschool/college true love, Eric R. I still love him, and after a year or so of hurting one another after we broke up, we were able to manage being friends. And still are. And of course, my last true love is my Beloved, Mark, my husband, and father of my boys.
What did you want to be when you grew up?
You know, I don’t remember wanting to be anything. From the time I can remember, it was just always assumed (because I was a little precocious and this was was smart people became) that I would be a doctor, and I thought that was okay. I was in college before I realized that that was not a pre-ordained, inescapable thing.
So now, having learned that what I wanted to be was a mother and homeschool teacher for the first half of my adult life, I’m struggling to figure out what I want to be for the rest of my adult life.
4. Where is the most spiritual place that you have ever visited and why?
The Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris, for all the obvious reasons, and despite tourists being allowed there to gawk. I expected to just admire some architecture and statuary and stain-glass. But from the moment I entered, I felt the presence. The Holy. The Mystery. The One. A peace, and an aching, and exultation. I went in and knelt, and prayed, knowing for sure this time, that I was “heard”, or, more like acknowledged. I was more alive than I’d ever been, more complete. Even now, thirty years later, that memory still grounds me.
In your opinion, what one change would immediately make the world a better place?
If humans somehow were given some inner mechanism that prevented them from killing other humans. Something that kicked in whenever he was about kill, order to be killed, or set in motion events that would kill others, and cause immediate paralysis and sterility.
As far as something that might actually be possible, I think everyone in the world, man, woman, and child, being given a solar battery powered laptop with constant access to the world wide web might help.