Monday Meme: Clocks…?

I might make Monday Meme a regular thing if my schedule/internet usage at work doesn’t get more favorable for blogging. (I am tired, by the way. It’s no fun to try and fit all the things I keep up with in my internet life in on my hours off, when I’m also trying to do yoga and make dinner and relax.) This one was taken from Mrs. Chili, who always does Monday Memes and from whom I think I’ll be taking a lot more of them in the future.

1. Are you a Rolex watch, a Mickey Mouse watch, or a pocket watch?
I am a unique watch with turquoise accents bought from an antique store. Or, at least, that’s the watch I wear. If I had to choose between these three I’d pick pocket. Heh.

2. Can you think of a time when you couldn’t see the forest for the trees?
Well, yes…do you want me to describe this time or just answer the question? Because I feel that way about a lot of what’s happened so far during my twenties.

3. Can you think of a time when you were on the outside looking in? What did you see?
That people are wonderful, awful, fun-loving, dull, just-trying-to-make-it-through creatures. And that I am not very good at mingling.

4. Go back in time. Maybe a long time ago, maybe today. Pick an hour you’d like to freeze frame forever and tell us why. It doesn’t have to be THE most important hour of your life, but make it a good one.
Any summer evening when the heat of the day hasn’t quite left and there’re still a few hours of dusk, when the grass is cool on my bare feet, when there’s laughter in the air and maybe a glass of wine is in my hand. I may or may not be combining a number of different times in my life I’d like to freeze-frame.

5. If you were a cuckoo clock, what would others say about you?
“Why does she sound like that? All the other cuckoo clocks sound normal.”

6. Can you think of a time when time stood still?
The day I did the Shiva Rea workshop.

7. Watch this! You are a stopwatch. What would you stop?
Littering. Because it’s such a small thing that would make the world so much more pleasant to be in. If people could just understand that when they throw something out the window, it creates a problem that some other equally valid human being has to solve, maybe that compassion could spread to other crimes less petty.

8. Imagine you were just born and have infinite wisdom. After the doctor smacks your newborn dust ruffle you look around and say to the Universe: “Give me a whole lifetime to do “this” and I will bless the day I was born.”
What did you choose?
Create things. Books, jewelry, clothes, buildings, gardens, paintings. Anything I could create that others could enjoy.