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On Tue, 09 Feb 16 14:50:51 UTC M.Elisabeth Howell (52) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):
- What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
- To have betrayed a friend
- Where would you like to live?
- At home - at home with myself, at home with my times, at home in a place of my own
- What is your idea of earthly happiness?
- sustainable emotional self-sufficiency, and contentment
- To what faults do you feel most indulgent?
- my animal nature
- Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
- Bad ass educated comic book and TV heroes, current favorites Tony Stark, Dr Who, and probably Capt Picard
- Who are your favorite characters in history?
- Marie Curie, Dr Salk, Carl Sagan
- Who are your favorite heroines in real life?
- Gloria Steinem, Elizabeth Warren, Harriet Tubman, Georgia O'Keefe
- Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?
- Wonder Woman, The Scarlet Witch, Joan Eunice Smith
- Your favorite painter?
- I am
- Your favorite musician?
- It varies with the times of my life: Puscifer, Opiuo, Tim Minchin,
- The quality you most admire in a man?
- Awareness
- The quality you most admire in a woman?
- Reason
- Your favorite virtue?
- Compassion
- Your favorite occupation?
- Meditation - or perhaps painting - no, definitely sex.
- Who would you have liked to be?
- The very best of who I could possibly be, with the resources available, in the context of my culture
- Your most marked characteristic?
- Chaos
- What do you most value in your friends?
- Balance
- What is your principle defect?
- Awareness not followed by action
- What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?
- The loss of it (my mind)
- What would you like to be?
- Wholly myself, wholly awake, fully aware, and entirely completely alive!
- What is your favorite color?
- I love color - I often live among shades of lavendar, sage, violet, and pale soft green.
- What is your favorite flower?
- The fragrant ones; flowers are most lovely when they can be enjoyed by many senses.
- What is your favorite bird?
- the ones outside my window, the ones singing their song on my walk each day
- Who are your favorite prose writers?
- Robert Heinlein, Oz Monroe...many others. I like words.
- Who are your favorite poets?
- I don't really enjoy poets. I enjoy poetry.
- Who are your heroes in real life?
- My romantic partner(s), my friends, and every day people doing their best.
- Who are your favorite heroines of history?
- Rosa Parks, Harriet Tubman, the Suffragettes, women fighting for freedom, for equanimity, for justice
- What are your favorite names?
- I don't understand this question
- What is it you most dislike?
- frustration
- What historical figures do you most despise?
- This is a cruel question - hate is very time consuming, and rarely produces a good result, and I can't ever be certain that I really understand any historical figure enough to justify hate.
- What event in military history do you most admire?
- Every end of any war.
- What natural gift would you most like to possess?
- mindfulness: sustained, continuous fully present and engaged living
- How would you like to die?
- at the end of a very long life, lived well, loved and loving, and content with the state of my heart, soul, and the world.
- What is your present state of mind?
- Content
- What is your motto?
- "We are each having our own experience. There are verbs involved. Your results may vary."
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