Next stop: Memeland

[gurdonark]

I often resist participating in the "meme" in which one says "ask me anything". I have two reasons for this. One is that I can never think of anything really good to ask anyone. My friends' list folks, in the main, do a very good job of answering the things I wonder without the need for further questions. Sometimes, when I do ask a question absent a meme, the answer causes me to infer that my question was less revealing than just waiting and reading might have been. The second reason is that I put so much trivia in my journal that I can't imagine there's much left to me to describe in answer to questions.

Still, when jevechan set up the current version of the meme, I came up with questions. So now I'm going to be a good pacifist soldier, and post this in my journal. Here goes, attendance optional:

1. Ask me any three questions, and I'll try to answer.
2. If you wish, post this meme in your own journal. Only you can cause forest fires.

Comments

[mery-bast.livejournal.com]

1. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?
2. What/who do you think you were in a past life?
3. What was your last secret good deed?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

1. When you were little, what did you want to be when you grew up?

a age 5: TV repairman; ages 6-17: a doctor, probably a radiologist

2. What/who do you think you were in a past life?

If there are past lives, I am sure I was a school teacher in at least one, and a country farmer in another.

3. What was your last secret good deed?

My goodness. Isn't it supposed to be a secret? But since you ask, my last secret good deed to recommend a friend's website to someone who might provide it some material to review, without mentioning to my friend. I should do more secret good deeds, as I realize in answering this question how few I do.

Good questions. Thanks!

[bardcat.livejournal.com]

1. What in your journey has prompted a transition from the Unitarian Universalist Church to the Methodist Church, aside from your early history in the Methodist Church?

2. If you could live any where on earth you care to live, where would you choose to live and why?

3. What do you believe are the essential "secrets" to living a peaceful life?

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

1. What in your journey has prompted a transition from the Unitarian Universalist Church to the Methodist Church, aside from your early history in the Methodist Church?

I became a U/U because I wanted to be part of a group that stressed tolerance. I still consider myself a U/U, really. When we moved back to Texas, we did not find either local U/U church quite "right" for us,

2. If you could live any where on earth you care to live, where would you choose to live and why?

Gurdon, Arkansas. I feel at home there.

3. What do you believe are the essential "secrets" to living a peaceful life?

I am not sure I know any real "secrets", but I'll say that sometimes peace seems to me about paying attention to what really matters, and no attention to what does not really matter.

[bardcat.livejournal.com]

thanks!

[skygoodwill.livejournal.com]

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

Good question. I try to figure out what matters to me, I suppose, and revise as I learn more.

[skygoodwill.livejournal.com]

Yes. However, what is the criteria in your deliberation process?

Let's see......

[jevechan.livejournal.com]

Hmmm!!

1. I know that you're a practicing lawyer, but what did you study as an undergraduate?
2. Have you always lived in Texas? If not, where else have you lived?
3. What is the very first book you remember reading or having read to you as a child?

(I promise I'll answer YOUR questions soon....I think I'm actually going to turn one of them into a post.)

Re: Let's see......

[gurdonark.livejournal.com]

1. I know that you're a practicing lawyer, but what did you study as an undergraduate?

I have a bachelor of arts in physics, some science, some liberal arts, all mixed together.

2. Have you always lived in Texas? If not, where else have you lived?
I was born in San Antonio, grew up and did college and law school in Arkansas, moved to Dallas, then spent 10 years in Los Angeles, and then returned to Texas almost 4 years ago.

3. What is the very first book you remember reading or having read to you as a child?

My mother read us Dr. Seuss and then, later, Hardy Boys mysteries.

Thanks for asking!