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Christina's November 2021 Five Questions
1. Name five things you'd like to learn or do, that you do not care whether or not you'd be terrific at doing, only that they seem interesting or fun.
2. What's the best book you've read this year? Fiction, non-fiction, as long as it has an ISBN.
I picked this up a few months ago for my regular, once-a-decade re-read. This is an old favourite that I first fell in love with in early high school. Elements of it have not aged well in the age of ultra-PC and cancel culture, but that makes it even more impactful and interesting, given what we currently label as acceptable versus improper behaviours.
The novel explores the lives of a set of interesting and idiosyncratic individuals with modern morals, disperate means, and old souls, making their way through a landscape of a technologically advanced and socially fragmented America in the apparent throws of civilisational collapse. The collapse is a backdrop, just part of the setting - the focus is on the individiuals, their interactions, their priorities, and their choices. Very interesting reading - how Heinlein saw our era from the standpoint of the 1970s. Quite prescient in many ways.
3. I made a delicious hot chocolate today then remembered I have lactose intolerance. What foods do you wish you could still enjoy?
I am always skirting the edge of diabetes, as well as enjoying some probably related condition that presents as gluten intolerance, but probably is just a reaction to an excess of carbs. I wish I could gorge myself on fresh, delicious crusty/fluffy bread and not regret it.
4. Is there any simple tip or trick for people to lead happier, healthier lives that you've given up sharing or kept to yourself because most don't seem interested or receptive?
Let go. Meditate. Let go. Meditate. Let go. Let go. Let go.
Attachment is pain - hold all attachments lightly.
I need to remind myself of this often - I've stopped offering this to others on most occasions; either it makes sense to you or it doesn't.
5. Describe a perfect day spent indoors at home
I'm pretty easy to please. Alone:
With a partner:
Bonus Question for the Morbid, because it's that kind of month: Have you noticed absences of online people you're friendly with? Do you wonder more often now if they're healthy, rather than wonder where they toddled off to? Do you imagine someone is wondering where you toddledoff to?
Yes. But I know a number of IRL friends would see me as one of those who has disappeared, Not that I don't normally do this from time to time ;) - I require low-maintenance, relaxed friendships.
m2. Germans have "Fruehlingsmuedigkeit" - literally "spring tiredness". Does any change of season have a physical effect on you.
Winter. Winter in Melbourne can be gloomy and grey for weeks on end. I sometimes find this soul destroying.
m3. If you could stockpile something delicious for wintertime, what would you pick? (You do not have to bury itt!)
The feeling of a warm early- or late-summer's day in Melbourne. Sea air. A wisp of a cooling breeze flirting with the feeling of warm sunlight on my skin.
m4. What is your favourite book and why? And yes I know this is probably a mundane question but as a reader…
"Walkaway" by Cory Doctorow. Because it gives me hope for a post-capitalist, post-climate-change future.
m5. Are there things that you enjoy eating or cooking in the Autumn?
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