The Interview
Well, I asked for it.
Lessa posted some interview questions for me, so here are my answers.
1. It’s easy to list our faults, they tend to fall first from our lips, and do the most damage by being the easiest to remember. So instead, tell me just one thing that you are proud of. Doesn’t even have to be the one… just one.
Hmmmm….how did I know you would start with a hard one? 
OK, I am proud that I am FINALLY going back to school after so many years of false starts and attempts and dreams and wishes. It is really happening this time.
2. Word association time! Tolerance, health, fear, illusion, paperclip.
Tolerance – Love
Health – Care
Fear – Nothing
Illusion – Insubstantial
Paperclip – Together
3. Everyone has a childhood dream – sometimes fantastic, sometimes scary, almost always unrealized and amusing – so what was yours? What did you want to be when you grew up and would you ever consider going for that goal now, no matter how fantastical?
Hmmmmmm…..well, I suppose for the longest time I wanted to be a doctor. I even pursued that dream into college, where I was pre-med at Boston University for a year and a half before kind of…growing up and moving on to other interests. For a long time I still wanted to be in the health field somehow, whether as a doctor or as a nurse or even a nurse’s assistant, but then the interest more or less dies away altogether. Honestly, I am not sure if I would ever pursue that carreer now. I wouldn’t have nearly enough time for the really important thing, like my kids. Sure, the money is great, but money doesn’t mean THAT much to me.
4. I know you love to read… what is one book that you not only couldn’t put down the first time, but have returned too again and again, loving it even if you know what’s going to happen in the end?
Well…there are SO SO many that would fit into this category. But if I had to pick just one, I would say it has to be The Moon Under Her Feet by Clista Kinstler. This is an utterly fascinating fictitious look at the life of Jesus through the eyes of Mary Magdalene, who is portrayed as a Pagan priestess. This makes so much sense to me, seeing as how she is so viciously maligned by so many. But then again, I really like ANY books which attempt to portray events from a womans point of view (The Mists of Avalon, The Red Tent), since so very few real accounts survive patriarchal oppression. There is a very nice bibliography at the end as well that depicts the author’s research into the subject. I honestly feel as if I lean more towards believing parts of Ms. Kinstler’s account after reading the book and doing a bit of research on my own.
5. Everyone doubts themselves. Everyone wonders if they are doomed to be in this existence until the end of time…. So tell me, Tricia, if you could be anywhere, anywhen, on any plane of existence… where would you be? In other words, describe to me your version of the perfect world… even if it’s Scifi style – especially if it’s out of the norm.
Well…anywhere but here and now would be a darn good start. :LOL: Seriously, though, as much as I enjoy using technology and computers and whatnot, I would love to go back to a time where none of that was known or necessary. A simpler time. Definitely on a different plane of existence. One where fairies and pixies and the like are actually to be found under every toadstool. Where magic is alive and revered, and people respect themselves and their neighbors and reach out a helping hand to anyone who needs it. People in this day and age tend to be so selfish. So concerned about themselves and their own lives, barely giving a second thought to anyone else. Everyone seems tired and jaded and suspicious and ever so willing to displace any and all blame for their own problems or the world’s problems onto someone else’s shoulders. It’s really a sad thing. Just the thought of something simple…I suppose I wouldn’t mind at all being a simple worker for a kindly lord, cooking and cleaning and hugging the children and kissing my husband when he comes home. Churning butter by hand and walking in fields of green and laughing as I hike up my skirts and splash my family in the nearby sparkling stream. Knowing everyone’s name, waving and chatting as they go by. Not even having a lock on the door, for after all, if someone needs what we have, why not just give it to them? Besides the fact that there wouldn’t even be a need to steal…there would be just enough. Including kindness.
Here are the rules – and yes, I will interview whomever wishes me too. *Smile*
1. If you want to participate, leave me a comment saying “interview me.”
2. I will respond by asking you five questions – each person’s will be different.
3. You will update your journal with the questions and the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview others in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.
