March 18, 2005

• FRIDAY FIVE

  1) Would you rather live in a world with or without technology such as computers, cars, airplanes, bombs?
  With technology definitely for the one main reason of medical care. There’s no way I would have made it this far without the medical care available in my life and no chance to go on longer without it either. And computers – my god, you could really almost skip going to school if it wasn’t for missing the real time socialization process. That’s one thing that worries me a little bit is how email and the internet have brought us closer and yet kept us farther apart at the same time. Know what I mean?
  2) If you had to live without either heating in your house or air conditioning, which one would you keep?
  Air conditioning I could live without. I’ve never had it yet and maybe I never will, though I’m getting less resilient to heat each passing year. I’m a summer-born baby and summer is my style. So in the winter I pamper myself with daily fires in the fireplace on top of keeping the heat at a manageable level.
  3) If you had to own five dogs, what kind would you get?I love to watch the Westminster dog show and see just how incredibly many varieties of dogs there are. Loved “Best in Show.” Haven’t had a dog though since college days. I learned back then that dogs really suffer if they’re left alone all day while you work or whatever. (I mean one dog by itself- if there’s more than one, that’s better.) It just breaks their hearts. So I turned to cats. Cats are more sociopathic. But if I was home all the time and had the space for 5 dogs – jeez I’d have to be like those people in Vanity Fair – I’d have an Afghan hound, a beagle, a Lab, a St. Bernard, and a border collie.
  4) If the world had a front porch, what would you do on it?
  The world? That would be big I guess. I’d have the most comfortable rocking chair available and I’d find out which other rockers were the most intriguing to talk to and I’d sit there and rock with them. We’d watch the world go by and make serious but acutely clever remarks about life and love.
  5) Would you rather live in a neighborhood where you know all of your neighbors by name, or where everyone sticks to their own business?
  I’d like to know their names and then stick to my own business and vice versa. I have nosy neighbors where I live now and on the one hand it makes it really hard for me to work in my front yard under their beady gaze (being a very private person), but on the other hand I know they’d come running if I yelled that something was the matter. I’m training my back yard to be the Secret Garden so at least there I can forget the outside world long enough to regroup.
  

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  Deep Thought: “If you ever discover that what you’re seeing is a play within a play, just slow down, take a deep breath, and hold on for the ride of your life”
  Today I am grateful for: Grass
  Guess the Movie: “Batting practice tomorrow, be there!” “I have been. Every day.” Answer: The Natural, 1984.
  Greens Plan and Join Rallies and Actions Across the U.S. in the March 19 ‘Global Day of Protest’ Against the Iraq War
  Military threats against Iran and Syria risk a greater war between the U.S. and Middle East, warn Greens
  WASHINGTON — March 17 — Green Party members across the country will participate in the ‘Global Day of Protest’ against the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, planned for Saturday, March 19, the second year anniversary of the invasion. (Rest of article here.)
  End of Day: 8:26 pm
  + = Expecting a few days of rain – good for the earth.
  - = Lots of sad news in the world today.

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