Live the Questions

1.) What speaks to your soul?
authenticity
2.) What is your favorite time of day? Why?
dawn, for its stillness
3.) If you really want to indulge yourself what do you do?
an evening of bread, cheese, wine & TiVo
4.) Favorite thing to collect?
names, words, quotes
5.) What do you obsess over?
to do lists
6.) What could you never have too many of?
ideas
7.) What is your favorite smell?
my husband
8.) What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
not living the life I dream of
9.) When are where were you the happiest?
in my home
10.) What's playing on your stereo?
sounds eclectic
11.) What is your most marked characteristic?
my walk
12.) What inspires you?
stark contrasts
13.) Can't leave home without?
pen & paper
14.) What is your idea of earthly happiness?
health & family & love
15.) To what weaknesses are you most indulgent?
worrying
16.) What books are on your nightstand?
Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit, Diane Ackerman, An Alchemy of Mind, Honore De Balzac, The Unknown Masterpiece
17.) What is your favorite virtue?
selflessness
18.) A famous writer said that you should always be in search of something-an object, a raincoat, anything. What do you find yourself in search of most often?
words and images
19.) What is your principle defect?
staying in situations longer than I know I should
20.) What do you value most in your friends?
honesty
21.) Who is are your favorite artists?
Basquiat, Cy Twombly, Rauschenberg
22.) What are your favorite books?
Childhood: The Boxcar Children - it inspired me to explore the world
Adulthood: The Essential Rumi - It inspired me to explore the Source
23.) Who are your favorite heroes of fiction?
Maria in Sound of Music & Pippi Longstocking
24.) What quality do you most admire in a man?
the desire to give everything to the people he loves
25.) What quality do you most admire in a woman?
softness
26.) Where would you like to live?
in an old villa on the Mediterranean, in a loft in New York City, a pied-a-terre in Paris, and on a lake in Minnesota
27.) Top three six places in the world you would like to go?
Egypt, Turkey, Greece, China, Vietnam, Northern Africa
28.) Michael Crichten said in his book Travels, that at thirty-something he had already accomplished everything he had ever dreamed of and more. Do you feel like that you have accomplished all you have dreamed about or do you feel like you have much more to accomplish? Where do you feel you are on the your path?
There is one love like that of the sky.
Another is like the roof over one's head.
A woman seeks both.
She first finds the roof and then opens a window to the sky.
I have built my roof, my window is open and I am lifting my gaze to the heavens.
29.) What are your top three dreams of accomplishing/becoming?
becoming a working artist, starting my business, becoming a mom
30.) What is your guilty pleasure?
gummy bears and frozen pizza
31.) Do you play it safe or take chances more often?
I feel like I play it safe more often, but when I step outside of myself and look at my life it seems I definitely take chances
32.) Do you make your bed everyday?
most days no. and i relish the intimacy of walking into a room with an unmade bed.
33.) What are you seeking?
stillness
34.) Always in your beauty bag?
white tea cream
35.) Most unforgettable experience?
my time in India
36.) Favorite films?
Baraka, Basquiat, Bedknobs & Broomsticks
37.) How often do you search for freshness and inspiration?
daily
38.) Favorite item of clothing?
my lime & chocolate flip flops
39.) What is your greatest fear?
feeling as if I have not expressed myself
40.) What is your favorite journey?
the journey from idea to creation
41.) On what occasions do you lie?
i've been known to take fictional liberties describing real life situations
42.) What is your greatest regret?
no regrets only ripening
43.) How do you tell time?
by the scars on my body & the crossed off items on my to do lists
44.) What is it that you most dislike?
ignorance in the form of hatred
45.) What is your motto?
I don't know that this is a motto in the traditional sense, but this line from a poem by Rumi has had the most profound effect on who I am and how I live my life.
A lover's food is the love of bread, not the bread.

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