Proust Questionnaire: Sig's Girl's answers

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On Sun, 07 Feb 16 15:55:42 UTC Sig's Girl (57) answered the Proust Questionnaire (click on a question to read other answers):

What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?: self-hatred
Where would you like to live?: among the redwoods, close to the sea
What is your idea of earthly happiness?: the experience of enough, the simplicity of modest means, time to create and connect with the world; a life beyond sustanence
To what faults do you feel most indulgent?: staring into the sky, eating a third cookie, testing my own ability to cram more into 10 minutes than is reasonable
Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?: Buck, Scrooge,
Who are your favorite characters in history?: Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mark Twain, Ghandi
Who are your favorite heroines in real life?: Gloria Steinem, Pema Chodron, several close friends, my mother
Who are your favorite heroines of fiction?: Scout, Susan Burling Ward, Macabéa
Your favorite painter?: Chagall
Your favorite musician?: Conor Oberst, Patty Griffin
The quality you most admire in a man?: curiosity, humility
The quality you most admire in a woman?: care, self-possession
Your favorite virtue?: good humor, optimism
Your favorite occupation?: driving on the open road, collaging with images and words, writing inspired by reading
Who would you have liked to be?: Queen Elizabeth I's handmaiden, a childhood friend of Nell Harper Lee
Your most marked characteristic?: patience, withholding my deepest thoughts, need to arrange life in my best interests albeit generously
What do you most value in your friends?: openness and evenness of mind and spirit, that they like me, that they are someone I am not but would like to be
What is your principle defect?: lack of assertiveness, physically benign
What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes?: To have my children not know how much their presence in my life has influenced and changed me for the better
What would you like to be?: A person who draws or paints or writes on a hillside under the passing clouds with no other duty but that
What is your favorite color?: green against blue
What is your favorite flower?: camillas
What is your favorite bird?: cardinals
Who are your favorite prose writers?: Stegner, King, Woolf,
Who are your favorite poets?: Wendell Berry, Mary Oliver, Ellen Bass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Gwendolyn Brooks, Gregory Orr
Who are your heroes in real life?: Martin Luther King, Edward Abbey
Who are your favorite heroines of history?: Susan B. Anthony, Mary
What are your favorite names?: nature names
What is it you most dislike?: meanness, egoism
What historical figures do you most despise?: mean egomaniacs
What event in military history do you most admire?: truce
What natural gift would you most like to possess?: complete wisdom and the courage to share it carefully and liberally
How would you like to die?: knowing my life was complete and had a clear beginning, middle, and end
What is your present state of mind?: calm and interested my answers
What is your motto?: wake up!

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