August 6, 2004

• the friday five

  1. What is your favorite childhood memory?
  When I was about 7, I was wandering by myself on our 200-acre farm, as usual, as far from my house as I could be, in a dried up slough in the summer, when I suddenly realized I was in the middle of a large swarm of bees visiting the center of the same beautiful gathering of wild flowers. It was a moment at once terrifying and exultant. It required maneuvering with absolute invisibility and concentration to get to safety without being stung.
  2. If you could be reincarnated as anything besides human, who would you want to be?
  “Who” seems to imply a specific being. We don’t called planets “who”, for example. Something fictional, perhaps, so I could live on. How about the Cowardly Lion who turned out to have a brave heart?
  3. If you had to start your life all over, what are three things you would change?
  I would have siblings. My parents would love each other dearly and treat each other with tenderness and kindness and never be angry. Is a world without war too much to ask?
  4. If you had to forget everything in your life, except one thing, what would it be?
  That my family (parents and children), including me, may have (had) flaws but we are all extraordinary.
  5. Do you have a lucky charm?
  No. I’m not that interested in magic. I do believe in synchronicity.
  Deep Thought: It’s funny how two simple words, “I promise,” will stall people for a while.
  Today I am grateful for: Anthropomorphism
  BLOGGING FORWARD TO: thedavidwang who gives me hope for a better saner future.
  End of Day – 8:20 pm
  + = My grandson (13) completed a week of OMSI Science Camp (Architecture & Cities) funded by me where a gaggle of 6-8 graders (mostly boys) built all kinds of stuff with legos every day, including castles and trebuchets and other neat stuff. He was bummed to have to break for recess he was having so much fun. It was held on the Reed College campus ( part of a plot I have for him to go there one day), and this afternoon he asked what do you have to do to get a scholarship to go there. I just about died and went to heaven.
  - = Ate too much today.

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