1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood?
2: What building left you in amazement?
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it?
4: What is the most wonderful thing you have ever touched?
5: What do you want to experience before you die?
My Answers:
1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood? Visiting the Grand Canyon when I was about 5.
2: What building left you in amazement? The Milwaukee Museum of Art, it is worth going to Wisconsin.
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it? Any one of a hundred villages in Normandy.
4: What is the most wonderful thing you have ever touched? Sheared Beaver, I was in Anchorage Alaska. I went into a shop that sold furs, the proprietor said, "you have to feel this!"
5: What do you want to experience before you die? There are not a lot of experiences left on the list, flying in a hot air balloon is one. A friend just did a ski plane landing on a glacier in Alaska, that is on the bucket list. Someone asked him why he was doing it, he responded "because he can." A few days before they took a flight over the North Pole.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1. Standing on the station platform holding my mother’s hand as a steam train arrived. The sound of screeching brakes, the smoke and the smell were both terrifying and exciting.
ReplyDelete2. The château at Azay-le-Rideau, so elegant and beautiful.
3. My garden in France.
4. The soft curls on the top of my dog’s head when he’s been freshly groomed.
5. A long ride on a steam train through rolling hills, pretty villages and green valleys, 1930’s style.
In 2013 or 2014 we did a road trip to ride two steam railways.
Delete1. Running, tripping over the dog and breaking my leg. Well, that is a planted memory but I do remember me leg being encased in plaster.
ReplyDelete2. Sagrada Familiar. We had a view of it from our accommodation balcony.
3. Hard. Maybe Lisbon.
I just can't answer the final two questions.
DeletePortugal is still on my to see list.
DeleteToday’s leave me mostly stumped.
ReplyDelete1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood? My mother’s hand mirror falling off the shelf in the bathroom and breaking while she was giving my sister a bath. I was under 2.
2: What building left you in amazement? I’ve been amazed often and can’t come up with a single example at the moment.
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it? An empty beach.
A long walk on an empty beach is good for us.
Delete1. in a playpen in Mrs Napierala's basement while she did laundry.
ReplyDelete2. maybe the Louvre?
3. the Marginal Way in Ogunquit ME
4. a beagle's ear.
5. Dinner with Meryl Streep. I think she'd be fun.
I should spend more time in Maine.
Delete1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood? The birth of my younger brother. Why was I kept downstairs and who was that crying in the parental bedroom?
ReplyDelete2: What building left you in amazement? The Luxor Temple in Egypt.
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it? The Isle of Wight Festival August 1970. Walking with my children up our street, holding their hands when he was seven and she was three. Red Raider Summer Camp, Novelty, Ohio 1976. Hull City making it into The Premier League for the first time May 24th 2008. My wedding day - October 24th 1981.
4: What is the most wonderful thing you have ever touched? My first granddaughter's skin.
5: What do you want to experience before you die? As many years as possible in relatively good health plus the death of Donald J. Trump.
Lots of happy memories.
Delete#5 is most excellent!
Delete1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood? We went to the Sacramento Zoo when I was a wee queerling and there was a new primate enclosure and the local news took our photos as we watched the animals explore their new home.
ReplyDelete2: What building left you in amazement? As an architecture whore there are so many I cannot narrow it down. Possibly the monstrous size of the WTC since it's no longer here.
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it? Someplace green and cool with loved one all around.
4: What is the most wonderful thing you have ever touched? While scuba diving in Maui I once petted a Reef Shark. Well, to be fair, you hold your palm out and the shark will rub along your hand.
5: What do you want to experience before you die? Just more. I'm not ready for that end.
Many more years.
Delete1: What is the first experience that stands out in your mind from childhood? Riding my bike around the neighborhood all by myself.
ReplyDelete2: What building left you in amazement? Chicago Art Museum
3: If the doctor said, let your mind go to your happy place, where is it? London
4: What is the most wonderful thing you have ever touched? I can't think of anything.
5: What do you want to experience before you die? An alien encounter.
Years in the desert and the aliens have not found you, yet.
Delete1. When my youngest brother was born - he had red hair!
ReplyDelete2. The large building in Xian, China where the Terra Cotta warriors are.
3. At the confluence of the DuPage River where the East and West branches come together.
4. Each of my 5 children at the time of their birth? Can't just pick one...
5. No idea.
China is a land of wonders.
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