The ideal answers to this week's five questions are not tied to reality, time to let the imagination run wild, dream the impossible dream, hope for what is unlikely to happen.
1: Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit?
2: What disease, do wish there was an instant prevention / cure for?
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car?
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with?
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now?
My answers:
1: Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit? I'd love to spend a few hours on the moon, looking back at earth and taking photographs.
2: What disease, do wish there was an instant prevention / cure for? Alzheimer's and other progressive dementias, they kill the person long before they kill the body.
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car? Bring on the self driving car, I enjoy life in the slow lane, but I don't want to be limited to the range of a horse.
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with? My paternal grandfather, I'd love to know more about his life.
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now? Listening to man land and walk on the moon, I was old enough to know and remember what was happening.
Please share your answers in the comments.
Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit? Earth...in a parallel universe where everything is done correctly.
ReplyDelete2: What disease, do wish there was an instant prevention / cure for? Homophobia and racism.
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car? Horse and buggy. I have to have control.
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with? Paul Lynde. Because I get a hellva of a good laugh.
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now? My never being in the closet and not caring who knew or what they cared about me being gay.
closets are for clothes, Paul would be a scream
Delete1. I always wanted to go to Alderaan, but alas.
ReplyDelete2. Cancer. All of 'em.
3. That's a tough one.
4. I can't think of anyone, but I fear it would be a one-sided conversation.
5. When I won the lottery and became fabulously wealthy. Oh, wait, that hasn't happened. Yet.
One sided, you are a great listener
Delete1. I'll go with you, the moon, to take photos of the very strange populated planet Earth.
ReplyDelete2. Cancer is often a very cruel disease. I'd like to see cures for all cancers and I don't think it will be much after my lifetime that there will be. The side effect though will be some very old and barely functioning people with low quality of life.
3. Self driving car, but only once the technology is perfect. I am not sure I will see that.
4. Adolph Hitler, to ask questions, to berate him, to criticise him and tell him he was even worse than #45. The Jews had the last laugh. They are still here and prospering.
5. My great great great great gay nephew discovering my preserved blog and finding Great X4 Uncle Andrew was a bit interesting.
WHat goes on blogger, stays on blogger
Delete1: Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit? I'd love to be an unseen visitor to an inhabited planet in another galaxy.
ReplyDelete2: What disease, do wish there was an instant prevention / cure for? I don't know where to begin.
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car? My own two feet.
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with? My sister. Can we make it an hour?
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now? He lived.
And you lived very very well
Delete1: Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit? Well, clearly another planet that sustains life. Maybe one far off and away that is exactly like The Erath Experiment, except they got it right?
ReplyDelete2: What disease, do wish there was an instant prevention / cure for? Since it's affected my family so much: cancer.
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car? There's a certain romance to horse-and-buggy.
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with? Harvey Milk; to tell him that even though his life was cut short, we've progressed because of him.
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now? Coming out, because life lived without being your true self is no life at all.
If I hadn't accepted myself, I would probably be dead by now.
DeleteSadly, that could be the tale of many of us, and a lesson to be learned by all, LGBTQ+ or not: love yourself.
Delete1 - the moon
ReplyDelete2 - autism, COVID, dementia, MD/MS, cancer, heart disease
3 - horse & buggy
4 - my maternal grandmother
5 - she was a survivor
And fierce
Delete1. The moon sounds like a great idea!
ReplyDelete2. Cancer
3. Self-driving car
4. My mother's biological parents.
5. The first family trip with the new travel trailer.
The first trip sounds like an interesting story
Delete1. The timeless lands of Erehwon. I they aren't open nowadays, I think I would like Narnia.
ReplyDelete2. Malaria
3. horse and buggy.
4. Shakespeare
5. my blog.
Alternate worlds are likely open, they have enlightened leadership that knows how to contain contingents
Delete1: Other than places on earth, where would you like to visit? No place. I'm not even a fan of visiting much of this planet. I'm a homebody at heart. But, I suppose if there was a proven-to-be-100%-safe way to zoom into outer space for the day, I'd be very interested in going for the view.
ReplyDelete2: What disease, do you wish there was an instant prevention / cure for? All of them. Can you imagine having to really make that kind of choice - to pick only one disease to cure? No thank you. But if I HAD to pick one, I'd choose hate, because that is one ugly disease and we could accomplish so much more so much faster if we had far less of that and could actually band together to cure disease , save the planet, and solve all of our problems.
3: Would you prefer a horse and buggy, or a self-driving car? I'd never want to give up the convenience and expediency of a car, but I'm terrified of self-driving cars, so if I had to choose one or the other, I'd go with the horse and buggy. (And since I'm a homebody, that means I'd mostly be using it for joyriding anyway.)
4: What person who is no longer alive, would you like to have a 15 minute phone call with? My Uncle Gordon, the only other (known) openly gay member of my family. He died from complications due to HIV when I was 10, before I got the chance to know him. (I only got to met him once at a family funeral and my father kept him away from us.) I'd love to have the chance to connect with him as two grown gay men, and tell him how his death and shunning inspired me to live free of the closet.
5: What memory or experience from your life, would you like a family member to hear about 100 years from now? The efforts Jeffrey and I went to to have our marriage legally recognized. It's one of my proudest battles, and I think it has personal, historical, political and social value.
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