What countries do you want to visit?
All of them, but as I’ve only hit 40-some to date, I need to prioritize. The current top of my list includes: Myanmar, Turkey, Georgia, Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Uzbekistan, Madagascar, and the Maldives.
What’s the oldest thing you own that you still use daily?
I think that would be a compass that I got thirty-some years ago.
Describe one of your favorite moments.
I refuse to play favorites. It’s bad parenting.
What is your favorite season of year? Why?
When I lived in the land of four seasons, I liked Fall because it was pleasantly cool. Now that I’m down to two, I prefer Dry Season because I don’t have to remember an umbrella.
What’s the one luxury you can’t live without?
A luxury is, by definition, something one can live without.
As I said in reply to the prompt on quotes to live by, I’m with Epictetus when he says, “Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants.”
“A life mostly sunny with a chance of hail.”
ALT: “In my mind, no one can hear me scream… but somehow they know when my fly is down.”
1.) Good company; 2.) studiousness; 3.) a sense of humor, and 4.) the capacity to let go of that which has no value.
Who do you spend the most time with?
I’m with Myself all the time, and that guy gets on my last nerve.
Harry Savage.
Tastes like chocolate, but with the caloric density of broccoli.
[And because someone might insist on trying to make such a monstrosity in reality, I must add a third criterion: should NOT result in me shitting my pants. (There are no free rides in life.)]
Tiger Riding for Beginners 