Another Lifetime: Playing Tag

Saturday, May 30, 2009

Playing Tag

What is your current obsession?
Blogging! Writing and getting to know my new camera. Books!

What is your weirdest obsession?
I don't think it's weird, but people are usually amused by my extreme enthusiasm for the Olympic Games. I'm a fanatic.

What are you wearing today?
Right now I'm wearing black yoga pants and my husband's green Italia soccer sweatshirt. Not sure about where to go from here!

What's for dinner?
This question is the bain of my existence so please forgive me for skipping it:)

What would you eat for your last meal?
What we eat on Christmas Eve each year: Homemade linguine, al dente with a little oil, a little salt, and walnuts

What's the last thing you bought? 12 Hershey bars for my students who celebrated a birthday during the month of May.

What are you listening to right now?
Stevie Wonder, "Lately"

What is your favorite ice-cream flavour? I like vanilla soft serve dipped in chocolate

What do you think of the person who tagged you?
Anyone who regularly visits my blog knows how often I credit Nadia for inspiration or ideas. She photographs wishes and dreams and at the same time captures the beauty of "right here, right now". The result is achingly beautiful. I think she is a good writer too.

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
I guess I always kind of imagined a little place in Mexico with beautiful tiles and an outdoor shower, a lemon tree outside, the ability to sit on the roof and look out over the other houses....kind of like where we lived when we spent a few months there! Somewhere in Provence or Tuscany would be wonderful too.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go? "If you could go anywhere in the world..." is a tough question, but specifying "in the next hour" helps. Right now I'm in the mood for Argentina...Buenos Aires!

Which language do you want to learn? Spanish, but I want to exercise and improve my French...I have lost nearly all of it I am afraid. Then Italian. Definitely Italian.

Who do you want to meet right now?
I can't wait to meet Claire! Kind of nervous too!

What is your favorite color? Ocean blue (Atlantic Ocean) and Forrest Green

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your own wardrobe?
Jeans- gift from a friend!:)

Your favorite quote?
It's the heart that is unsatiable, the heart that needs to love, to despair, to burn with any kind of fire....That was what we wanted. To burn, to be consumed, to devour our days just as fire devours a forest.
-Irene Nemirovsky, Fire in the Blood

What is your dream job? Author....but of what?

What's your favourite magazine? I like Vanity Fair

If you had £100 now, what would you spend it on?
I volunteer for a great charity that raises money for homes and better sanitation in India, it should go there.

Favorite designer? I am not well versed in the world of fashion or design!

Describe your personal style?
Casual, simple, sporty, but I do regularly mix it up with something dressy and feminine.

What are you going to do after this? Finish a story!

What are your favourite movies? Lost in Translation, Amelie, Life is Beautiful

What's your favourite fruit? Guavas....used to eat them every day when I was in Mexico but can't find good ones around here

What inspires you?
The perfection and imperfection of all of us, our tragic flaws, the many angles of reality, little treasures of daily life, the genius in every person (my gift is spotting it!)

What music do you like this week? Sam Cooke, Jackie Wilson, I guess I'm all about soul lately!

What is something you know with every fiber of your being? In studying me, I understand you. I believe in the shared human experience and condition.

The rules :1. Respond and rework; answer the question on your blog, replace one question that you dislike with a question of your invention, add more one question of your own.2. Tag five other people.I'm tagging the following people:
Cherry
Claire
Kendalee
Beverly
Maria

4 comments:

♥ Boomer ♥ said...: What a tag!!! Was great to read your thoughts. Enjoyed!; May 30, 2009 at 1:08 PM
kendalee said...: Oh I loved learning more about you Sheila - thank you for sharing these glimpses into who you are and what you love. I love guavas too but it's been way too long since I last had one. I can't find good ones around here either. :)

It might take me a few days to get to it but, I'm happy to accept the tag...; May 31, 2009 at 6:26 AM
onesilentwinter said...: Love it!! thak you for sharing and playing!; May 31, 2009 at 11:47 AM
Maria said...: Loved it, you are as interesting as have always found you to be, such a really cool person. This looks like fun, give me a few days & I'm in, thanks for the tag. This may inspire me a little.; May 31, 2009 at 1:14 PM

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What I'm Reading

Three Cups of Tea, Greg Mortenson

The Hour I First Believed, Wally Lamb

The Bookseller of Kabul, Åsne Seierstad

The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, Maggie O'Farrell
"Esme stares at the spiked rocks. She stares and stares until they begin to lose their third dimension, until they begin to look unfamiliar, insubstantial. Like the way words said over and over become just a slurry of a sound. She says the word 'word' over and over in her head until she hears only 'dwur-dwur-dwur'. She is aware of those numbers, the two and the eight, trying to find a place to slip back in. They have been lurking at the edges where she pushed them and they are mounting an assault, a break-in. She won't have it. She will not."

The House of Seven Gables, Nathaniel Hawthorne
"But as for the old structure of our story, its white-oak frame, and its boards, shingles, and crumbling plaster, and even the huge, clustered chimney in the midst, seemed to constitute only the least and meanest part of its reality. So much of mankind's varied experience had passed there, -so much had been suffered, and something, too, enjoyed,- that the very timbers were oozy, as with the moisture of a heart."

The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
"She was sitting up now. My arm was around her and she was leaning back against me, and we were quite calm. She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things"

The Life You Can Save: Acting now to end world poverty, Peter Singer
"In the United States, 97 percent of those classified by the Census Bureau as poor own a color TV. Three quarters of them own a car. Three quarters of them have air conditioning. All have access to health care. I am not quoting these figures to deny that the poor in the United States face genuine difficulties. Nevertheless, for most, these difficulties are of a different order than those of the world's poorest people."

Kiss Me Like a Stranger: My search for love and art, Gene Wilder

Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert
"I walked into an office building one afternoon in a hurry, dashed into the waiting elevator. As I rushed in, I caught an unexpected glimpse of myself in a security mirror's reflection. In that moment my brain did an odd thing-it fired off this split second message: 'Hey! You know her! That's a friend of yours!' And I actually ran forward toward my own reflection with a smile, ready to welcome that girl whose name I had lost but whose face was so familiar......Never forget that once upon a time, in an unguarded moment, you recognized yourself as a friend"

The Kindness of Strangers, Katrina Kittle

The Alchemist, Paolo Coelho, translated by Alan Clarke
"'Everyone on earth has a treasure that awaits him,' his heart said. 'We, people's hearts, seldom say much about those treasures, because people no longer want to go in search of them. We speak of them only to children. Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, towards its own fate. But, unfortunately, very few follow the path laid out for them- the path to their Personal Legends, and to happiness. Most people see the world as a threatening place. So, we, their hearts, speak more and more softly. We never stop speaking out, but we begin to hope that our words won't be heard: we don't want people to suffer because they don't follow their hearts.'"

Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
"For this is the truth about our soul, he thought, our self, who fish-like inhabits deep seas and plies among obscurities threading her way between the boles of giant weeds, over sun-flickered spaces and on and on into gloom, cold, deep, inscrutable; suddenly she shoots to the surface and sports on the wind-wrinkled waves;"

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath
"The room hovered around me with great gentleness, as if the chairs and the tables and the walls were witholding their weight out of sympathy for my sudden frailty"

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Saturday, May 30, 2009

Playing Tag

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