[Venus007]

What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Grateful relaxed acceptance
What is your greatest fear?
Becoming so physically and or mentally incapacitated so I am not able to exercise self direction
What historical figure do you most identify with?
I really love some of Benjamin Franklin, Timothy Leary, & Ayn Rand’s ideas but do I identify with them as people, no. I don’t think I identify with any historical figure.
Which living person do you most admire?
Hmmm that is hard, my queen mom Dirck or perhaps the Dahli Lama
What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Fear
What trait do you most deplore in others?
Purposeful ignorance
What is your greatest extravagance?
Dining out in grand style, expensive ingredients when I cook, paints and brushes, travel
On what occasion do you lie?
When it is necessary for survival or to escape and occasionally when I am bored in an airport to total strangers for my personal amusement.
What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My chins
What is your favorite journey?
My life. For a more conventional answer US-60 between Jackson, MI and Niles, MI
What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Piety although it is followed very closely by chastity
Which living person do you most despise?
George W. Bush, damn him and his party for the erosion of the separation of powers he put in place and for fear mongering when we needed courage
Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“right on”, “ ya’ll”, “Are you with me?”
What is your greatest regret?
In general I am who I am and I like who I am so I wouldn’t change anything really. I wish I could have all the money back I spent on drugs when I was much younger, I could have a very hefty IRA now.
What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My life itself and the path of it and the learning from it, oh and Coke Icees
When and where were you happiest?
I would hope the happiest moment of my life is still to come as I have many moments ahead, but thus far I would say, when I am teaching and the energy is flowing and my students are engaged and learning, best feeling in the world. Also when you have those connected moments with loved ones, where it seems that one wishes and the other fulfills, one speaks the words on the other's heart,
Which talent would you most like to have?
Physical grace, like a trained dancer
What is your current state of mind?
Contemplative
If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
Remove my addictive tendencies
If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
Make my family of choice much, much closer to me physically
If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what would it be?
A lesbian’s dog or cat
If you could choose what or who to come back as, what would it be?
see above
What do your consider your greatest achievement?
Truly living instead of simply surviving after some of the horrors of my early life
What is your most treasured possession?
My dog Lily, an opalized fossil, my family pictures
What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Fearful self loathing
What is your most marked characteristic?
A challenge and a bonus- bossy and intelligent
What is the quality you most like in a man?
Capacity for joy and tenacity
What is the quality you most admire in a woman?
Capacity for joy and tenacity
What do you most value in your friends?
Themselves in all their varied perfectly flawed glory
Who are your favourite writers?
Tom Robbins, Ovid, Ann Rice, Ray Bradbury, JRR Tolkien, CS Lewis, Carl Sagan, Harlan Ellison, there are a lot actually
Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
Dagney Tagrart, from “Atlas Shrugged” Max from “Where the Wild Things Are”, Lyra Belacqua from the “His Dark Materials” series
Who are your heroes in real life?
Buddha, Sun Tzu, Galileo Galilei, Mother Theresa, Frank Mock (the man who helped raise me), Dirck (my queen mom), Heather McAllister, any self actualized sassy fat chick and anyone who has overcome great adversary to exert their selfness and will
What are your favorite names?
Isabella, Nichola, Stone, Jesse, Isaiah, Hadassah, Sarah, Jane, Opal, Jezebel, St John (pronounced sin-jin), Christiana
What is it that you most dislike?
Stagnation
How would you like to die?
In a perfect world I would die quietly and with calm awareness after a long healthy life and surrounded by loved ones
What is your motto?
I have 2 actually, “You have to do what you have to do to get where you have to go” and “Let it go and just be” the disparity between the two is not lost on me, believe me