Five Questions

The lovely Katie asked me these 5 questions:

1) You are an exercise machine - tell me about yourself....
I'd have to say dumb-bells. Enough said.

2) If you were describing your monsters, what would you have to say about them?
My monsters, huh? Some of them are dark and sneaky and hideous. They lurk in corners and pounce when I am at my weakest. They are insidious and manipulative. And there are some, far fewer, that are like sheep in wolves clothing. They look scary and wild, but if I'm patient and kind and dare to befriend them...they reciprocate.

3) Pete talks about the 7 stages of man, in your eyes, what are the seven stages of a woman?
This is a challenge for me, but I'll give it a shot. In all honesty, I don't know that I believe this mumbo-jumbo that i just let roll from my fingertips.

1. Infant - dependant and vulnerable
2. Child - imaginative and creative, investigating her world
3. Dreamer of possibilities - forming her dreams and longings as a young girl in the secret places of her heart.
4. Equalizer - determined to prove herself...as strong and valuable and worthy of wanting. Or in some cases, as equal to the male species. Dreams and longings are often tucked away here.
5. Contented - she stops proving and finds peace in who she is.
6. Princess - fully accepting herself and where she is in life, she is beautiful inside and out...she decides to relish in the present, letting unrealized dreams and desires go, which let her be truly free and unbound.
7. Child - being fully in the present, she can be who she was meant to be - unhindered.

If you believe any of that, please send payment using my paypal account.

4) Compare yourself to your favorite food... then compare an aspect of yourself to the food you dislike most and explain your choices.
I don't have one favorite food, so let's go with olives. Olives are zesty and pungent. Most people either love them or hate them. But like some other foods, they can also be an acquired taste. Sometimes they have a pit in the middle...which needs to be spit out...and other times they are stuffed with a little surprise.

I'm a big seafood lover, but when it comes to scallops. Ick. Scallops are somewhat gritty. I mean, they're a muscle from a mollusk. Not just any muscle, but the muscle that clamps the two halves of the shell together. But I digress...it's the grit that I dislike. In a way, I can be a little gritty, or abrasive if you will. I'm not afraid to say no or make my boundary clear. Some don't like that.


5) List 3 people that you admire from different medias (literature , movie , singer etc) and share with us their qualities that you admire most.

Terry Gross - she's the host of NPR's Fresh Air. I love her airy, soothing voice and her ability to gently interview a person with grace and dignity even while asking tough questions. I especially admire her for the research she has to do in order to know her interviewee, their history, their story, their situation, inside and out. She is a lover of people of art and of history. I would love to meet her some day.

Wayne Brady - okay, i know this is ridiculous, but I so admire his ability to be spontaneous. Plus, he cracks me up. When someone can make me laugh out loud, that's something to admire.

Keith Green - although he's no longer alive, he was a huge inspiration to me. I admire him for his immense musical and lyrical talent, but more so for his bold message which he shared through song, but also in his book, No Compromise. He lived what he believed. That's admirable.


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