answers to questions
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percivalagain, these are answers to questions I was asked ... if you want to be interviewed by me, drop me a line.
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robertstheology:
1. What is your favorite book, and why?
This is difficult, I have so many favourites. In terms of escape: Harry Potter, without a doubt. Otherwise, the one I'm just finding unputdownable. I haven't zeroed in on a new candidate yet.
2. Where were you born?
I'll be vague here because I don't want to give too much about myself away.
In the Lower Rhineland, an hour north of Cologne and east of the Dutch border.
3. How did you meet your husband?
In a choir: he was a tenor, I was an alto. (I am an excruciatingly bad singer.) He struck me right from the start as being tres handsome.
4. Which historical character do you most admire?
Probably Teresa of Avila. Mystic, feminist, author.
5. How did you become interested in meditation?
My Ph.D. led me close to a nervous breakdown. Exercise couldn't keep me going, so I tried meditation. I found Zen immediately congenial.
fromssigrist:
1)from your username, what do you relate to most in the character,
or
story, of Perceval?
The search for the Grail.
2)I have asked this of several but dont know if you have had this
question before and it is not a bad one: a book or two you loved as
a
child and which perhaps told you something about the world?
Ronja the Robber's Daughter taught me about the dangers of separatism and factionalism.
And the Children of Bullerbue were the playmates I never had - I was a socially inept, dyspraxic child.
3)one teacher whom you particularly remember?
Johann Georg Juchem. A philosopher and free spirit who taught despite getting paid only
a pittance. He paid a high price for remaining in academia and not bowing to fashion.
I had the privilege to attend one of his courses. He died recently, I curse myself for not keeping in touch with him, believing he would still be there when I found the time to return to semiotics.
4)Japanese Haiku tend it seems to me(this is going to be a boring
question but it is in spite of appearances not a lecture but a
question!) to end with a sort of fall a little like Eeeyore or
Puddleglum in their way, the cherry bossoms are beautiful but of
course there they go, nothing pretty stays around Im sure you and I
wont
either. might summarize the substructure? (or I may be wrong)
do
your perceptions tend to go with this dying fall? or do they tend to
rise a bit? that is the question but now I ask myself a question
propose
a haiku on cherry blossoms(not sticking to syllable structure but
thought) going in an opposite direction... umm pink blossoms
fall
/leaving branch bare/ but see the new! However it was not a
leading
question, even though I have added an answer of my own...and as with
all
you may start from the thing and say anything else so it is open...
Hmmm ... I don't know much about Haikus, I'm afraid. Zen is about the only Japanese thing I actively cultivate.
5)Love is...?
Divine.
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robertstheology:1. What is your favorite book, and why?
This is difficult, I have so many favourites. In terms of escape: Harry Potter, without a doubt. Otherwise, the one I'm just finding unputdownable. I haven't zeroed in on a new candidate yet.
2. Where were you born?
I'll be vague here because I don't want to give too much about myself away.
In the Lower Rhineland, an hour north of Cologne and east of the Dutch border.
3. How did you meet your husband?
In a choir: he was a tenor, I was an alto. (I am an excruciatingly bad singer.) He struck me right from the start as being tres handsome.
4. Which historical character do you most admire?
Probably Teresa of Avila. Mystic, feminist, author.
5. How did you become interested in meditation?
My Ph.D. led me close to a nervous breakdown. Exercise couldn't keep me going, so I tried meditation. I found Zen immediately congenial.
from
ssigrist:1)from your username, what do you relate to most in the character,
or
story, of Perceval?
The search for the Grail.
2)I have asked this of several but dont know if you have had this
question before and it is not a bad one: a book or two you loved as
a
child and which perhaps told you something about the world?
Ronja the Robber's Daughter taught me about the dangers of separatism and factionalism.
And the Children of Bullerbue were the playmates I never had - I was a socially inept, dyspraxic child.
3)one teacher whom you particularly remember?
Johann Georg Juchem. A philosopher and free spirit who taught despite getting paid only
a pittance. He paid a high price for remaining in academia and not bowing to fashion.
I had the privilege to attend one of his courses. He died recently, I curse myself for not keeping in touch with him, believing he would still be there when I found the time to return to semiotics.
4)Japanese Haiku tend it seems to me(this is going to be a boring
question but it is in spite of appearances not a lecture but a
question!) to end with a sort of fall a little like Eeeyore or
Puddleglum in their way, the cherry bossoms are beautiful but of
course there they go, nothing pretty stays around Im sure you and I
wont
either. might summarize the substructure? (or I may be wrong)
do
your perceptions tend to go with this dying fall? or do they tend to
rise a bit? that is the question but now I ask myself a question
propose
a haiku on cherry blossoms(not sticking to syllable structure but
thought) going in an opposite direction... umm pink blossoms
fall
/leaving branch bare/ but see the new! However it was not a
leading
question, even though I have added an answer of my own...and as with
all
you may start from the thing and say anything else so it is open...
Hmmm ... I don't know much about Haikus, I'm afraid. Zen is about the only Japanese thing I actively cultivate.
5)Love is...?
Divine.
