KeepOnSinging wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

Here are some more questions - for anyone who'd like to join in.

1.  I would spend a lot more time, probably every month, going to see friends and relatives  on the east coast, on the west coast, North Carolina, Georgia, etc.   

2.   A nurse or doctor because I saw so many children in pain in China.  

3.   The possibility of being psychologically isolated or marginalized or the possibility of this happening to a loved one. 

4.   Hard to choose between Frederich Buechner or Bernie Sanders or Meryl Streep.  These are people who know who they are.  They change but do not abandon their principles and their kindness towards others.  This does not mean that they will not take a firm and principled stand even if it does get interpreted as an attack.  

5.   Yes, my first Christmas back in the US in school.  Other than "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "Jingle Bells", I knew no non religious Christmas songs.  I was sure that everyone was looking at me and thinking who was the strange girl who doesn't even know "Frosty the Snowman", etc.?  I was 11.   

6.  I hesitated before I answered this honestly.  Yes for or years and years I had an unusual, recurring dream.   About two years after I was married I would dream that I was at the high school where my dad  was a guidance counselor in Cincinnati.  The academic building was connected to the athletic building by a long corridor that was glassed in with no floors above it.   I was walking by myself and could see my husband coming towards me with a group of other men walking with him and periodically whispering in his ear.  I didn't recognized any of them, but I can hear them.  They are telling him that I do not love him.   He looks incredibly sad.  And there is nothing that I can say that counter acts when these men are saying.  About two years after my husband's first hospitalization (voluntary) for acute paranoia psychosis, I realized that the dream had stopped and it never did return.  On the day that the psychiatrist, a very good one, dismissed him from the hospital 40 days later, he told my husband that if he could learn to talk about what was behind his tears, he, the psychiatrist guaranteed that he would never be in a hospital again.   But he was unable to.  Brene Brown calls breakdowns spiritual awakenings; a call to be vulnerable and trust the people who love you most.  That was 1977.  Years later in Dec. of 1993 he decided that he did not want to go with us to the wedding of a high school friend of our daughter.  We ate at a restaurant before our three children and I left.  We all hugged and kissed him, they we walked out.  Except our older son who worked so hard to show his dad how much he loved him, decided to go back and hug his dad again.  I was sad for my older son because his dad, who was preoccupied with whatever he was thinking about, could not even take in how much this son loved him. About six months into being on this board, things began to change.  So even in our 70's there is hope for healing among all of us.     I hope this is not too heavy.  I have thought about sharing more about our journey but my older son and I who are the ones most willing to share have both noticed that sometimes the weight of this story is just too heavy.  

7.  Kittens and cats.  

8.  Earlier I described how a changed my teaching.  Take my last 7 years of teaching and put it in a bookstore with a tea room and that would be the perfect job.  Lots of flowers too. 

9.  Night owl because it seems that is when the best in depth conversations take place.  

10.  My mother was concerned because our dad was not with us, and  we were on an ocean liner traveling from Hong Kong to London,and I developed a crush on one of the cabin boys who was 17 or 18.  I was 10 and 1/2.  I don't remember his name or what he looked like.  Besides, my 9 year old brother and I were most interested in sitting outside the bar and watching them take drunk people out. 

11.  Owl

12.  No.

13. Maybe a candle that is lit. But I would not ever have a tattoo.

14. The third movement, adagio movement, of Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto. My two sons also love this movement.     I tell you though, Freddie Mercury and Montessarte Cabal singing  "Guide Me Home" with"How Can I Go On?" like this adagio movement make me come to a stop and pay attention.  

15.  A shop that would specialize in steamed puddings afternoon tea, books and lots of conversation for men and women boys and girls.  It would be called "Puddin' and Pie" and the logo would be the face of George, our now deceased but formerly very playful, especially in the snow, Rotweiller.  In the photo we kept he still has snow on his nose from a romp in the snow. 

KOS I love Freddie Mercury and had not thougth of that song is such a while...Queen was one of my two favorite groups....The Eagles being the second...

...and our Bella a Rottie also, that we just lost LOVED the snow too...I have several lovely pics of here just tossing the snow with her nose...
 

CEK   I meant to write a response when I first read this but then forgot to a couple of days ago.  I never listened to Freddie Mercury until I, by chance, read an interview where Kanye West claimed to sing Bohemian Rhapsody better than Freddie Mercury.  So I decided to listen to Kanye and then Freddie.  There was no comparison.  Kanye is delusional, at least on this claim. And because I watched the two performance on You Tube, I noticed that Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe had done an album of duets, that he composed.  And her voice was considered one of the great voices of the 20th century.  He had fallen in love with her voice, which he called the greatest in the world, when he went to hear her sing.  He then approached her about doing an album of duets.  "Barcelona" became the anthem for the Olympics held in Barcelona.  I am probably the only person on this board who was not familiar with his life's story.  Knowing his life's story and hearing the lyrics and music for "Guide Me Home" followed by "How Can I Go On?" moved me to tears.  There is incredible chemistry between these two artists who come from such different musical worlds with her 13 years older than he.  And then I watched what has been called "20 minutes that changed music."  According to this brief documentary no one expected Queen to be the band that dominated Live Aid on both sides of the Atlantic.  Extraordinary!   His was an incredible voice, as was Elvis Presley's.   Not all famous musicians bring these kind of voices to the table.  

Your "Bella" and our "George" would have loved to romp in the snow together. 

Thank YOU so much, KOS and CEK for introducing these two to me...

I barely knew who Freddy Mercury was. And Caballe !!  I see she is now 83 years old. 

View, unobstructed wrote:

Thank YOU so much, KOS and CEK for introducing these two to me...

I barely knew who Freddy Mercury was. And Caballe !!  I see she is now 83 years old. 

 
No problem View...Freddy Mercury and Queen were one of my two favorite bands...

CEK40 wrote:

View, unobstructed wrote:

Thank YOU so much, KOS and CEK for introducing these two to me...

I barely knew who Freddy Mercury was. And Caballe !!  I see she is now 83 years old. 

 
No problem View...Freddy Mercury and Queen were one of my two favorite bands...

Wish I had been listening when I was a lot younger.  CEK, have you ever watched the short documentary (about 24 min. long) entitled "20 Minutes That Changed Music"?  It is about Queen playing their Live Aid set in 1985.