The Friday Five
1. What’s a song you’d enjoy screaming along to as you drove down the highway?
Stopped screaming some years back when fear of apoplexy set in, but I do crank the CD player sometimes and sing along in the car. A song – oh how about Dimming of the Day by any of the several folks who sing it.
2. What is your favorite place/type of environment
to relax?
Home alone in my garden. At the beach if I could ever get there with anyone I love. Hiking in the woods with my grandchildren if I could ever get them there.
3. What are the best kind of dreams?
Daydreams of peace followed by waking moments of acting upon them.
4. What do you look for in a mate?
I’ve tried just about every concoction made and learned that love just happens, you can’t create a recipe for it. You do have to be willing to work to keep it alive.
5. If you were a crayon color, what color would you be and why?
I just happen to have a tonload of crayons at hand and these are the names of some of my favorite colors in the purple family – cerulean, plum, violet, indigo, blue violet, royal purple. My garden has a majority of purple flowers in it. My whole life has been purple.
Deep Thought: If you’re ever giving a speech, when you start out, act nervous and get mixed up a little bit. Then, as you go along, get better and better. Then, at the end, give off a white, glowing light and have rays shoot out of you.
Today I am grateful for: Finding my way home each day
BLOGGING FORWARD TO: bkeller49 who is many good things, but most of all, and best of all, a mensch.
End of Day – 8:18 pm
+ = Kerry and Bush both came and spoke to enthusiastic crowds and nobody blew up the city.
- = West Nile virus finally arrived in Oregon (though far away from Portland).
Comments (8)
I daydream about medieval days. Lots of adventures with Solon. I love purple to. But mostly black. Hope you’re having a great day.
out of all that post went the deep thought was the icing on the cake…
I like those questions. I think I like purple flowers the best, too. Especially irises.
Huge crowds, I heard. 50k or so.
I’m another fan of purple, the color of royalty.
I favor daydreams myself. I don’t like the night ones.
Folk music…Joni Mitchell, Linda Ronstadt
Wow. I just listened to Dimming of the Day eighteen times in a row (Bonnie Raitt, both versions, and Richard and Linda Thompson.) No real reason for the eighteen times, I just sort of got stuck on it. Broken record behavior strikes me now and again. I would also gladly belt it out in the car on the highway. Actually, I do that periodically just to embarrass my son.
I repressed the purple in me for so many years of my life. Now my house is all purple and green. All of it. Flowers, furniture, pictures, whatever. I refuse to be anything but shades of purple and green from here on out. I love purple people.
T
Wonderful post. Very uplifting. Most days I wonder if I’ll ever find my way home again.