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terrypurple73If you could only vote on one issue, what would that one issue be?
If compassion was a political issue, this is what I would vote on. I think that encompasses poverty, peace, and rights of all people.
You're throwing a dinner party and can invite any five people from history. Who do you invite?
I'm not much for really historical folks, but I imagine this would be a great group: Jane Addams, Alice Walker, Dorothy Day, SARK, and Bill Watterson. (As is probably obvious, I'm sitting surrounded by books as I type this.)
And what do you serve? (The second question is almost more important)
Something from my culture, like wild rice hotdish. Vegetarian, of course.
You graduate and you're completely debt free. Someone hands you a check for $10,000. How do you spend it?
If it goes to a worthwhile organization, my latest favorite is http://www.nnaf.org/index.html, the network of organizations that helps women pay for abortions. Or I would use it to help folks coming out of homelessness pay for their first month of rent, deposit, etc. If I kept the money, it would get invested in purchasing a house, so I would never have to move again.
You're walking down the street and see two people in a fight. It looks like one of them is going to get hurt. How do you react?
I assume we're talking a fight without knives, etc. I wish I'd step in. I'd likely ask someone else to step in, though, who looked more able to handle it.
What five books do you think everyone should be forced to read at some point in his or her life?
I currently love Dorothy's Loaves and Fishes, Marianne Williamson's Everyday Grace, The Catcher in the Rye, Pamela Sneed's Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, and Michael Himes's Doing the Truth in Love. If your live doesn't get re-looked at with those, well....
Best piece of art ever created? Could be drama, music, theater, literature, sculpture, etc.
(Potential cop-out here) I think Community is the best form of art ever produced, and continually produced. I think real Community and connection grows so thick around us that we can't ever be untangled. We love it into being, and we see that it has always been larger and more valuable than we'd ever thought. It's an art to love people with the intensity that really pulls us together. But you don't get a finished product with this art form- you have to keep making decisions about how you want this to look and function.
If compassion was a political issue, this is what I would vote on. I think that encompasses poverty, peace, and rights of all people.
You're throwing a dinner party and can invite any five people from history. Who do you invite?
I'm not much for really historical folks, but I imagine this would be a great group: Jane Addams, Alice Walker, Dorothy Day, SARK, and Bill Watterson. (As is probably obvious, I'm sitting surrounded by books as I type this.)
And what do you serve? (The second question is almost more important)
Something from my culture, like wild rice hotdish. Vegetarian, of course.
You graduate and you're completely debt free. Someone hands you a check for $10,000. How do you spend it?
If it goes to a worthwhile organization, my latest favorite is http://www.nnaf.org/index.html, the network of organizations that helps women pay for abortions. Or I would use it to help folks coming out of homelessness pay for their first month of rent, deposit, etc. If I kept the money, it would get invested in purchasing a house, so I would never have to move again.
You're walking down the street and see two people in a fight. It looks like one of them is going to get hurt. How do you react?
I assume we're talking a fight without knives, etc. I wish I'd step in. I'd likely ask someone else to step in, though, who looked more able to handle it.
What five books do you think everyone should be forced to read at some point in his or her life?
I currently love Dorothy's Loaves and Fishes, Marianne Williamson's Everyday Grace, The Catcher in the Rye, Pamela Sneed's Imagine Being More Afraid of Freedom than Slavery, and Michael Himes's Doing the Truth in Love. If your live doesn't get re-looked at with those, well....
Best piece of art ever created? Could be drama, music, theater, literature, sculpture, etc.
(Potential cop-out here) I think Community is the best form of art ever produced, and continually produced. I think real Community and connection grows so thick around us that we can't ever be untangled. We love it into being, and we see that it has always been larger and more valuable than we'd ever thought. It's an art to love people with the intensity that really pulls us together. But you don't get a finished product with this art form- you have to keep making decisions about how you want this to look and function.
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Date: 2007-09-06 04:48 pm (UTC)Thanks for asking. But who is this?
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