Who is your role model or hero?

 

I'm drawing a complete blank.  Isn't that funny?  I hope it isn't because I can't be inspired by anyone as that's not true, but honestly, I'm coming up a complete blank.  I'll come back and write it in in a different color ink as I go on.  

 

Highlights of my life

I think I'll leave travels for the travel section I see a couple of spaces down.  I'm going to say, well, the birth of my daughter, my first child, was momentous.  It first sunk in when I heard her heartbeat on a doppler thing as the doctor just shoved the thing at me, and I was about four months along...and she said, 'here, don't you want to hear the baby's heartbeat?"   I heard this little snapper sound like the old film about the heart, Hemo the magnificent...how exhilirating.  I had not expected that somehow as I'd lost two pregnancies prior to that...

The actual moment was after about thirty hours, nothing to eat or drink for the last twenty of those.

My son's birth was also thrilling as it was long and dangerous...and yet, he was a joyful little guy and very peaceful.  really faked me out!

 

Now there have been a bunch of others, but one that sticks out in my mind is helping out at a motorcycle race at Monza, the triumvarate of motor speed.  Plus, getting my press pass because I kind of bent the rules and spoke Italian.   That was fun. 

 

Professional highlight, I once helped out an English teacher with some newcomers from teh Hmong community, who were teens, but had almost no English and we had to manage to teach them how to recognize alphabet letters, pictures etc...they'd never written at all. but, had to try not to make them feel silly like babies...it was wonderful.  

 

 

 

Imaginary wishes

Flying...I have gotten to pilot an airplane for a few minutes with my uncle though, when I was sixteen.  That was great fun. 

I'd like to fly more like a kite though. 

 

Most unusual places visited

I've been around the world, in a roundabout way, but, I've visited some odd places in my life.  Iceland is interesting...no trees.   I've been to New Zealand and Australia and they aren't unusual, but more like home to me.  The Kiwis were about as hospitable as you could be...they invited us to stay with them, they drove us places...it was wonderful.   The Aussies, well, I think they were more blase about being visited, but, were kind to us nevertheless.  My favorite place in Australia is Perth, least favorite is Kalgoorlie...because there are prostitutes there, or there were, and, it was pointed out like a tourist attraction.

Elsewhere, Sri Lanka, the temple of the Buddha's tooth.  India, least favorite, the Taj Mahal as I was violently ill on the way.

 

 

 

Famous friends

I don't think there is anyone really famous thus far...maybe it will come.  Several of us have written and published though. 

 

Major venues visited

 

Well, the stadium of Monaco was where I actually worked!  I also went to the Opera building there to watch dance performances as that's where my kid was performing.

That was scary as, where's an old hippie like me going to find something suitable to wear?  

By venue, I'm never sure exactly what people are referring to in English any more...concerts? Sports?  

I went to many sports fields as a band geek....kind of fun, but cold in the winter.

 

Other ambitions...

 

Being published, having my own gallery or shop....teaching more...doing more for others. 

 

I have to add that, though I think marriage sometimes works out, I'm no longer a believer in the eternal marriage thing...I'm more of a believer in a clan forming through affinities and family ties...I've seen some people who were made to be in the same clan...and who also love each other.  

 

 

 

 

Unusual abilities

I'm not at the Shirley McClaine level of whoo whoo..but, I"m a pretty quick study.  However, I think that it comes and goes. Sometimes you get a flash of knowledge or intuition, and then, sometimes you completely blow it!

 

 

Where do I think I will go after death?

Not sure, I'm kind of fond of the idea of karma to explain how such injustice can happen....and also your basic 'what goes around comes around.' 

I think my older loved ones who've already left this world are with me in my heart and mind though...and eerily, sometimes I'll get a flash of intuition from one of them.