How much would you pay to go to the moon?
Not one thin dime. I have no pressing need to go to a place without breathable quantities of oxygen for longer than I can hold my breath. If complex technology is required every millisecond to stay alive… well, I know where I’m not wanted.
I’ll leave it to the billionaires who have enough spare change lying around to fund personal space programs.
I’ll stick to gazing at it admiringly from afar.
I’d say Thai curry. I used to make a mean Pad Thai, but it’s been a long time since I’ve cooked that.
What major historical events do you remember?
From the Iranian Hostage Crisis onward, pretty much all of them — given they were considered “major” in whatever place I was living at the time.
What’s the biggest risk you’d like to take — but haven’t been able to?
Fully embrace the crazy, in the manner of Diogenes, Blake, or Drukpa Kunley.
What’s something most people don’t know about you?
Some people who know me (and most people who don’t) might not know that I would never announce something on a public forum that the people who know me don’t already know. I’m strangely private that way.
Rested. Definitely. I believe one has to think of rest and recovery as part of the process of living. If one thinks of it as just wasting time between “doing things,” then one isn’t going to get the most out of body and mind.
Diogenes [of Sinope] and – also – Drukpa Kunley. Each of them spoke his mind, lived by his own rules, never wore a mask, and could not be controlled. They were truly free.
Knows when to mind their business and when to call the cops.
Skydiving comes to mind. Particularly, because it seems like something that I’d like to do once, but then would have no pressing urge to repeat it, having had the experience. There are a lot of things in this world that I could try for the first time, but I’m getting old to be trying anything that might become an ongoing competing demand for my time and energy. For example, I’ve thought of doing scuba, but that seems like it would become a whole ordeal of maintaining certifications and feeling the need to keep doing it.
What happens in the external world does not DETERMINE one’s mental / emotional experience.
It’s better to see oneself as a student than as a master — at any stage of life and development.
Be tolerant. No one knows enough to justify smug superiority.
Self-expression is what we live for, and it is curtailed to everyone’s detriment.
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