25 things about moi
There’s a facebook viral post going around; after being tagged five or six times by different friends, I succumbed and created my own version. In the name of avoiding doing a real blog today (but still including pictures), I’m including it here:
1. I’m taller than I look. The measurements lie.
2. This is more difficult than it ought to be, considering how much I normally enjoy talking about myself.
3. I like the way I look a lot better than I did when I was younger, including the wrinkles and sags.
4. My kids taught me about magic.
5. I don’t have kids anymore: I’m the proud mother of these amazingly smart, capable and beautiful grown-ups. I miss my kids a lot. It’s a sad, sore spot.
6. I believe in magic (thanks, kids). I’ve seen way too much proof over the years to doubt. But I don’t claim to understand why it works or how to make it work consistently.
7. I like people. Just about everybody I meet is excellent in some way.
8. I’m an Aries with a Leo Moon and Virgo rising. This is not easy.
9. I’m good at too many things I love to do. It’s a problem.
10. If I had to focus on any one of the things I’m good at for the rest of my life, it would be singing.
11. I’m still trying to figure out how to make a living; number 9 doesn’t help.
12. My current obsession is photography. I love my camera. I would sleep with it if it weren’t so cold and lumpy.
13. I’m not worried about the future, despite the grim prognostications. I see evidence indicating that life is just getting more fabulous. And yes, shit will happen and we will deal with it.
14. I might be crazy in some way, but I’ve learned to cope. More or less.
15. I’m really, really smart.
16. I’m also incredibly fuzzy-minded.
17. I encourage rule-breaking and thinking outside the accepted parameters of ‘what’s normal’.
18. I’m here to foment some kind of revolution, if only in my own mind.
19. I express emotions in sound and movement as much as possible. It feels good and things change in a positive way as a result.
20. I like things that are fun.
21. I believe in universal consciousness, and I listen to its voice because it says good things. I don’t believe it’s a Creator; I think the universe created itself just as a germinating seed does. But the sum of the whole thing is a loving awareness, and Earth is its face. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
22. I don’t care what people think of me, except when I do.
23. I’m a kind, helpful and caring person, with bad habits and unresolved fears.
24. I’m hugely grateful yet somewhat resentful at the same time, often for the same things. The gratitude is growing and the resentment is fading, it’s a benefit of growing older. Also of #19.
25. I’m in love, which is a wonderful thing to be in, when it isn’t catastrophically painful. Love is a paradox, like life, and paradox is cool.
After I finished this, and read some of my friends’ versions, I realized that I am really talking about my feelings, opinions and perspective on life. Most people talk about facts (‘when I was ten, this happened, I did this, I went there’) and activities (I belong to this group, I engage in that sport).
Now I feel like I ought to make another one and do it differently. But I probably won’t.
