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Kerry:

--- Quote from: Snuitje on March 11, 2007, 03:48:01 pm ---7. What is your dream of happiness?

I am a happy person so I already know happiness, but I would become even happier if I was able to stop worrying about things that I shouldn't worry about
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My Mum used to say, "Stop worrying. It may never happen." She was a wise woman, my Mum!  :)


--- Quote from: Snuitje on March 11, 2007, 03:48:01 pm ---30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?

Whining
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 :laugh:    :laugh:    :laugh:


--- Quote from: Snuitje on March 11, 2007, 03:48:01 pm ---31. What is your motto?

It's not the things you did do that you will regret at the end of your life, it's the things you didn't do.
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Profound!  :)

Kerry:

--- Quote from: David on March 11, 2007, 06:10:39 pm ---I'm not sure what kind of spider Charlotte was, Kerry. But she was a sweet, gentle spider just like Sinni was!  :)




And Charlotte saved the life of a little pig in the story...



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Pfew, thank goodness for that! If Charlotte had been a barking bird-eating spider, she would have gobbled-up that cute lil pig in one big gulp and spat out the bones!!!  :laugh:   :laugh:   :laugh:

ednbarby:
1. What is your most marked characteristic?  My passion.  People say I'm the most "passionate" person they know.  (I think that's a nice way of saying I'm more than a tad bit obsessive.)

2. What is the quality you most like in a man?  Intelligence.

3. What is the quality you most like in a woman?  Intelligence.

4. What do you most value in your friends?  Acceptance and understanding.

5. What is your principal defect?  My impatience.  I refer to it as the Mother of All My Flaws.

6. What is your favourite occupation?  Day-dreaming

7. What is your dream of happiness?  I'd like to be completely and utterly understood, accepted, and appreciated by my life partner.  Failing that, I could be very happy just living alone.

8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes?  Losing my mind

9. What would you like to be?  A recording artist, like Eva Cassidy.  I'd like to record songs that soothe the soul.  But I wouldn't like to go on tour.

10. In what country would you like to live?  England

11. What is your favourite colour?  Slate blue

12. What is your favourite flower?  Lilacs

13. What is your favourite bird?  Falcons

14. Who are your favourite prose writers?  Joyce Carol Oates, Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx

15. Who are your favourite poets?  Shakespeare

16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?  Ennis Del Mar

17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction?  Jane Eyre

18. Who are your favourite composers?  Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart - I like the pretty stuff.

19. Who are your favourite painters?  Andrew Wyeth

20. Who are your heroes in real life?  Anderson Cooper, Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore, Billie Joe Armstrong, Martin Luther King Jr., John and Bobby Kennedy

21. Who are your favourite heroines of history?  Margaret Sanger, Betty Freidan, Rosa Parks, Katharine Hepburn, Ann Richards, Molly Ivins

22. What are your favourite names?  Emma, Molly, Shannon, Lily, Will, Eli, Jake, Mark

23. What is it that you most dislike?  Ignorance

24. What historical character do you most despise?  George W. Bush

25. What event in military history do you most admire?  I don't admire events in military history.  I am a true pacifist.

26. What reform do you most admire?  The Civil Rights Movement in this country

27. What natural gift would you most like to possess?  The ability to sing like an angel

28. How would you like to die?  While walking briskly outside in a cool breeze at the age of 95.

29. What is your present state of mind?  Calm

30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent?  Gluttony and lust

31. What is your motto?  Never expect anything.  At best, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and at worst, you'll be validated.

Front-Ranger:
1. What is your most marked characteristic? My ability--or need--to communicate with others

2. What is the quality you most like in a man? Open mindedness

3. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Receptiveness

4. What do you most value in your friends? Enthusiasm

5. What is your principal defect? My need to be accepted

6. What is your favourite occupation? Writing

7. What is your dream of happiness? Living in a place where I can be outside much of the time and where I can write

8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes? For a child to grow up unloved

9. What would you like to be? Happily experiencing my second childhood!

10. In what country would you like to live? A Scandinavian or Mediterranean country.

11. What is your favourite colour? Green

12. What is your favourite flower? The Rocky Mountain Columbine

13. What is your favourite bird? Meadowlark

14. Who are your favourite prose writers? Annie Proulx, Salmon Rushdie, Hemingway, Jonathan Franzen, Doris Lessing, Jonathan Safren Foer, Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Wolff

15. Who are your favourite poets? Walt Whitman,

16. Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Holden Caulfield, the Virginian, Puss in Boots

17. Who are your favourite heroines of fiction? Orlando, Snow White

18. Who are your favourite composers? Debussy, Bob Dylan, Phillip Glass

19. Who are your favourite painters? Charles Russell, Klimt, Van Gogh, Turner, Whistler, Vermeer

20. Who are your heroes in real life? Julia Child, Madeline Albright, Jimmy Carter

21. Who are your favourite heroines of history? Madame Messier, Madame Curie

22. What are your favourite names? Erin, Gwenivere, Christian

23. What is it that you most dislike? prejudice, closed mindedness, bigotry

24. What historical character  do you most despise? Hitler, Timothy McVeigh

25. What event in military history do you most admire? Napoleon's conquest of Algeria

26. What reform do you most admire? Johnson's War on Poverty

27. What natural gift would you most like to possess? The ability to sing

28. How would you like to die? In the process of striving for something just out of my grasp

29. What is your present state of mind? Peaceful and happy

30. To what faults do you feel most indulgent? The need to communicate with my friends

31. What is your motto? "It's Destiny!"

Kerry:

--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 11, 2007, 09:51:51 pm ---8. What, to your mind, would be the greatest of misfortunes?  Losing my mind

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I worry about this one too. How awful it would be, to no longer recognise one's loved ones. Primarily distressing for them, 'cause you wouldn't be aware what was happening. Fortunately, I have no family history of this. A "friend" recently pointed out to me, however, that it has to start with someone! Thanks a lot, mate!    :-\   ::)   ;)   :)


--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 11, 2007, 09:51:51 pm ---18. Who are your favourite composers?  Chopin, Debussy, Dvorak, Mozart - I like the pretty stuff.

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Oooh, I love Chopin and Debussy too!  :D


--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 11, 2007, 09:51:51 pm ---28. How would you like to die?  While walking briskly outside in a cool breeze at the age of 95.

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What a wonderful response. No sick bed. No lingering infirmity. Off you go, in full stride, before you even know what's happened. This really does appeal to me.  :)


--- Quote from: ednbarby on March 11, 2007, 09:51:51 pm ---31. What is your motto?  Never expect anything.  At best, you'll be pleasantly surprised, and at worst, you'll be validated.

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There's much wisdom here. 

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