Monday, May 12, 2008
:six:
Helen tagged me to write a six word memoir last week. A harder task than you might think! At first I tried to write something witty around words ending in ‘ed’, as in: “Fed, led, wed, bred, dead” but firstly, I couldn’t think of six words and secondly, that approach involves me foreshadowing my own death. Heh.
Then I had the bright idea of looking at what pops up on my Flickr tabs - and chose six from that:
“Family, blood, moments, garden, just give.”
I think that is self-explanatory. And the photo above is to represent the peace of mind I strive for, but often don’t attain,
The other part of the tag was to share six oddities about myself. (Where do I start? Ha!)
-I spend at least 15 minutes per day dancing to loud music in my living room. I usually have a three song cycle on high rotate. At the moment it’s: “I’m still fond of you” by Cut Off Your Hands, “This is your last chance to be famous” by The Mint Chicks, and “Boyz” by M.I.A.
-I am squeamish about slugs - just seeing them makes me gag, but I quite like snails.
-Even though I never get around to reading all the books in time, I cannot leave the public library with less than ten books, sometimes more. Honestly, I’ll head there thinking “I have plenty to read at home. I’m just going to get that one recipe/poetry/gardening book I need” but I CANNOT do it. I see other interesting books, I remember writers I wanted to find, I procrastinate in the knitting book aisle and before you know it - huge stack of books.
-Although these days we have a coffee machine and drink fair trade, home roasted coffee - some days I get a craving for an instant coffee. Hell, I was raised on the stuff.
-I cannot sleep in a room with an open wardrobe door. Too much C.S.Lewis as a kid, I think.
-I think of the yard birds (sparrows, blackbirds, starlings, wax eyes) as my pets, and everyday I feed them our toast crusts and cereal scrapings. There is even one big blackbird who comes and visits me when I’m weeding, hoping for juicy worms, but very bold. I like to think he trusts me.
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So there you go! That was fun. I invite any of you who blog out there to join in.
Have a good day, dear ones!
