A Promised MEME .. stolen from Sarah-Hope's blog

1. What were you doing ten years ago?

Ten years ago I was fighting a private war, that long road that striving for Unconditional Love usually travels. I kept my own council, sealed my shattered little heart away, not trusting anyone with the knowledge of the path I'd chosen. I had to deal with problems that had gathered for many years. There were decades of steely eyed looks of false friendship from jealousy, xenophobic people, and other strange psychic illnesses clothed in human forms, that stepped all over my soul, and dealt out a shit load of rejection.

I was able to take the shattered pieces of my mind and heart, so trusting and innocent at first, and patch them back together over time. Patience, prayer and a strict attention to detail in the mending, as well as all of the love of my own little family, has insured that the once fragile sense of safety in my mind was again whole. I could love with the complete and beautiful extension of Unconditional Love, a birthright of all humans.


2. What are five non-work things on your to-do list for today/tomorrow?

*Read a book that is a bit scary but fun in a black way. Accordion Wars by e. annie proulx. I'm half way through the book and am beginning the think either this accordion brings very bad luck to the people who happen upon it, or I should just settle in and feel sorry for the accordion, and all it's own bad luck. I hope that you'll read this book and give me a full report on how it ruined your moods! No no.. don't read it. The daily news is really enough, and isn't that what we are trying to escape from by reading? No knitting is getting done, but a heck of a lot of obsessive reading to find a glimmer of HOPE in the life of one of the human characters. I might have called this book, Accordion Assassin.

* Eat well. My diet excludes some very wonderful and delicious foods and beverages, no dairy, no legumes, no wines, no coffee, but what I can have I enjoy to the utmost! I read lots and lots of Vegan foodie sights because I actually don't like meat. I have to eat it, but I do NOT like it much. I think of the animals when I eat it, say a quasi Native American prayer for it's life, and just eat it. It's protein.

* Watching a movie called "Saving Grace" yet again before having to send it back.

* Enjoying breathing in and out, watching the birds in the cape honeysuckle, and enjoying my eyesight no end!

*I will be taking surrepticious peeks at the kitchen when the cabinetmakers are at lunch or on breaks. When they leave for the day, I will sneak back in and turn on the new countertop lights, dim them with that cunning new switch, and be enchanted by their mysterious power over my imagination. At night, the dim lights make the kitchen look like one of the officer's quarters (apartments) on the spaceship Enterprise.

3. What snacks do you enjoy?

Malt balls. Those enormous malt balls come out of a dispenser at Henry's and other HIGH END (lol) Health food stores. I also like Soy Dream as well as tofuti chocolate frozen dessert. Pie! Chocolate cake, filled with raspberry creme, frosted with chocolate slathered on THICK, I tell you.. thick!

4. What would you do if you were a billionaire?

I would set aside money for the family, for education, housing and emergencies. That's a big family we are talking about here. The rest would go to local and national or international environmental orgs, organic farmering orgs, alternative energies, and, particularily to grant writing experts who do pro bono work so that cities the size of San Diego don't sit on their hands and let big government grants for things like treating empoverished diabetics slip away. This just happened and it was worth some millions to the agencies starving for money to treat the growing army of the poor. It should never happen, and some of the money would go to insure that it doesn't happen in any California city. Money would go into agencies that are buying land to save it from improper uses, saving land like farm land, wet lands, heritage lands that should be allowed to go back into wildernesses. If there's any left after that, DH and the family and I might go to Italy and live there for awhile. Anyone want to come along?

5. What are some of the places you’ve lived?

Summers in Ohio as a child, otherwise, California. All in the Southern half, though I am and always was, at heart, a Central Coaster.

6. What are some of the jobs you’ve had?

Carpenter- earned clothes and college money
Frosty freeze-earned my guitar -love that thing.
Library-pocket change
Telephone operator-roof and food
Yarn Shop-earned my yarn and knitting machine
Fabric Shop- what else? Fabric!
Teacher's Aid- fun with kids. Yay! Love kids!

7. What peeps do you want to know more about?

George Clooney. Not as a hunk, mind you, but here is the guy who made the movie, "Syriana". I respect that a lot. I would have loved to meet Beverly Sills for a chat. Both Galbraithe and Keynes, as I want to know their take on modern American economic unrealities. You know them as, "Voodoo Economics", from the Reagan meltdowns.