Sunday Stealing: The Hardest Meme Ever

This week’s meme comes from Kat at 3 Bed­room Bun­ga­low, who attrib­utes it to Jim at Irreg­u­larly Peri­odic Rumi­na­tions.

The Hard­est Meme Ever

1. What is the bravest thing that you feel you’ve ever done physically?

I don’t believe that I have ever done any­thing phys­i­cal that was par­tic­u­larly brave. I have, like most peo­ple, faced some phys­i­cal chal­lenges, includ­ing reti­nal detach­ment, tears, and lat­tice degen­er­a­tion, and endured the surg­eries and treat­ments neces­si­tated by those con­di­tions. I have no choice other than to live with the after­math on a daily basis. There is no alter­na­tive. I don’t think of that process as brav­ery in any sense. I just cope with the real­ity of the sit­u­a­tion and am thank­ful each and every morn­ing that I wake up and can see my sur­round­ings. Has the expe­ri­ence changed me? Pro­foundly. I no longer take my eye­sight — or, for that mat­ter, any of my senses or phys­i­cal abil­i­ties — for granted.

2. What is the bravest thing that you feel you’ve ever done emotionally?

With my clients, the late Flo­rence Wend­land and her daugh­ter, Rebekah Vin­son, out­side the court­room imme­di­ately after San Joaquin County Supe­rior Court Judge Bob McNatt con­cluded the late 1997 trial in their favor.

I don’t view my own reac­tion to any chal­lenge as brave. I was called to lit­i­gate Con­ser­va­tor­ship of Wend­land and could never have fore­seen on that fate­ful day in 1995 that the case would not con­clude for a full six years fol­low­ing a court trial, two appeals to the Cal­i­for­nia Supreme Court, three to the Third Dis­trict Court of Appeals, and end­less media atten­tion. I could not have known that the expe­ri­ence would leave me — and most of the other peo­ple involved in the case — phys­i­cally, emo­tion­ally, psy­cho­log­i­cally, spir­i­tu­ally, and ide­al­is­ti­cally drained and for­ever scarred in a vari­ety of ways.

3. What one tal­ent do you wish you had that you don’t?

I have absolutely no artis­tic abil­ity. I can’t even draw stick peo­ple, have no eye for com­po­si­tion, and vir­tu­ally no artis­tic imagination.

4. If you had that tal­ent what would you be doing with it?

Express­ing myself through media other than music and writing.

5. We all have our rea­sons for blog­ging but what would be your ulti­mate goal for your blog or as a blogger?

To inspire thought and dis­course. If some­one reads an arti­cle here, closes the browser win­dow, and dis­cusses, and/or thinks and/or writes about the topic, I have attained my goal.

6. What advice would you give a new blogger?

Write about what mat­ters to you. Don’t attempt to write for a spe­cific audi­ence or on top­ics that you think other peo­ple want to read about. Write from your unique and authen­tic perspective.

7. Name your favorite blogs.

In no par­tic­u­lar order:

• Write Any­thing
• Spir­i­tual Things Matter
• Mimi Writes
• Writ­ing in Faith
• Becca’s ByLine
• Clus­ter­fook
• Eaves­drop Writer
• Every­one Needs Therapy
• MOMoc­rats
• Sec­ond­hand Smoke

Tod­dler Planet: Fam­ily Life after Cancer

… and many more.

8. You can trade lives with any one per­son for a month. Who would it be and why?

I sure hope he does.

President-Elect Barack Obama. I would love to know that it feels like to be liv­ing what I per­ceive as a com­pli­cated mix­ture of ela­tion, awe, inspi­ra­tion, sense of respon­si­bil­ity, trep­i­da­tion, fear … I share many of his val­ues and ideals, voted for him, and sup­port him as he pre­pares to assume lead­er­ship of the United States.

9. There’s a fire and your fam­ily is safe but you have the chance to save any one item from your house. What would it be and why?

I would not leave with­out my flute. It is my most val­ued possession.

10. You have the chance to go back in time and warn your­self before mak­ing a bad choice. What choice would it be and what would you tell yourself?

“Say ‘no.’”

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