Interview

I've seen this meandering around the world of journals lately and decided to go out on a limb, throw caution to the wind, and sign myself up. OndineMonet from Ellipsis sent me over my interview questions and thankfully they didn't give me a heart attack <wink> It is a great way to get to know people better. If anyone else would like to "interview" me, just let me know. I hope some of my readers sign up to be interviewed so I can personally ask some questions I may have been dying to ask :o)

1. What was your favorite book as a child, and what affect did it have on you?
       This is a pretty tough question for me, I read so many. I was a human book absorption machine growing up. What stands out to me the most would have to be all my horse books. I was obsessed about horses. I basically read every series, every scrap or piece of written word that had to do with horses. From Flicker to The Black Stallion, those books represented a connection between owner and animal, a freedom to run the hills, untamed, free as a bird, exploration. I had one more book that didn't have to do with horses, simple as it was, it was my first taste of poetry and fairytales. It was a Mother Goose book, large, full of poems and stories. It's funny now, to read, some of the poems are quite twisted for youngsters!
 
2. Who do you consider your personal hero/heroes?
       With this question, I see I could go two ways. With someone whom I've never met, but read about and admire, or with someone closer to home. I think I'll choose closer to home. My Grandmother Mary is someone I can't get enough of. She's 83 now, has lived a life that astounds me everytime I sit down with one of my informational probing quests. As a good Mormon, she had 8 children, has outlived 5 husbands <only divorced one who was actually my "real" grandfather," he was also a bad man, the rest have all died>. I tease her sometimes that she must be a black widow <only I can get away with such measures> She came from living on dirt floors, poverty in it's perfect form, buried far to many loves, and yet, this woman, has an outlook on life that is simply amazing. The test of time has not taken anything away from this her. I stand where I stand today, and glance to where she sits now, and only hope I can be as courageous and beautiful as she, towards the end of her circle of life. She tends to drill into my mind everytime I visit, "Don't give up on love Rebecca, it's whats gotten me this far in life."

 
3. If you HAD to give up one of your five senses, which one would you choose and why?
       This is pretty easy for me actually. Taste would be a goner. Things like food are not all too important in my life. I've never had much of an interest in eating, other then to satisfy a hunger. If it's edible, fills the stomach, I'll toss it down without a whole lot of thought.  My poor children, if they want food other then standard fare, they need to schedule dinner at my Mothers house :o)      
 
4. If you could interview any one person, past or present, who would you choose and why? How would the interview be conducted? By television or by written article?
       I would love to interview Emily Dickinson. The manner of which she lived, wrote, and her emotional convictions is a bit perplexing/fasinating to me. It wasn't until her death that her true volume of works were discovered. She let one rejection slip convince her the world wouldn't understand her form of expression. As for the interview, I think either one would be incredibly tough. I have to imagine in front of a television she would be unable to speak, much like the throat constrictions of paralyzation I get. I also imagine a written article, she would be able to write elusive non descript answers, with riddled meaning and elusive clues. I imagine if it were in her time, if I could get through the door into her recluse world, carefully placed and tentative questions may have shed some insight.
 
5. If you were commissioned to create a painting that would best represent your life as a whole, what would it look like, what colors would it be, and to which museum would you allow to display it?

       I've been thinking about this one, since you sent me over the questions. I've decided it would need to be a rather large mural. Abstract in feel, with deep colors, no pastels belong on my painting. Hints of symbols in my life, a dark blue river secretly flowing through it, deep reds to mark the loves I've had and felt, a deep purple iris hidden in it's colors to represent the one love I covet the most. An elk in shadow to show the strength I borrow from time to time. But I wouldn't want anything to be obvious, it would be something to sit and let the eye's try to figure out what was there, and what wasn't. I don't think it would belong in a museum, I think it would need to be painted on the wall of something outside. Something open and free, something for people to walk by and give passing thought too.

Thank you Carly for taking the time to send over such great questions!

So, there you have it, now here are the rules if you would like to play along with this fun game. Leave me a comment if you would like me to interview you requesting I do so. The first 5 to ask will receive an email from me with 5 questions. You will update your journal with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and offer to interview someone else in the same post. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them the 5 questions. Fun and easy...right?