I know, I know...Day 4 and 5
Day 01 | Your favorite song
Day 02 | Your favorite movie
Day 03 | Your favorite television program
Day 04 | Your favorite book
I think I missed doing this yesterday not because I was super busy (even though I was pretty busy...), but because I had no idea how to answer this question truthfully. I don't think I have a favorite book. I have a million favorites that satisfy the "companion" role books so often become. My favorite companion when I'm craving distopian lit is The Handmaid's Tale. My favorite companion when I'm craving a love story is The Ground Beneath Her Feet. My favorite companion when I need beautiful, sorrowful writing is The God of Small Things. My favorite companion when I'm craving coming of age is Foxfire. Magical Realism? Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Poetry? The Moon is Always Female. Or Meditations in an Emergency. The list is just too long.
I mean, I know it's like, so hip, to claim that you looooove to read and all, but I am an obsessive reader. I can only think of a handful of nights in the history of my personal history in which I did not read for half an hour before bed. Namely, when I've been too drunk, or it was my wedding night. :) I have personal rules and rituals about my reading habits: If I crack a book, I finish it. Stick with one at a time. Finish at least a chapter a night. If I like it, keep it or buy it because I will one day read it again. Start a children's and YA library for my someday kids. Etc.
Though I'm not without my reading faults. I currently CAN NOT get into A Farewell to Arms. In general, I'm really not a Hemingway fan. I know, right?
Day 05 | Your favorite quote
This quote is from Tom Robbin's Skinny Legs and All. I've always had a tempestuous relationship with religion. I feel I was forced into it as a child so when I was finally at a point where I could make my own decisions about church-going and the like, I chose...well, nothing. I chose to ignore the whole thing. But as an adult, I've started working my way through what parts of religion and spirituality I enjoy, and what I don't. In Skinny Legs, Robbins writes a ton about religion and it's hostile take over of pagan rituals, etc. This quote sums up nicely the reason I choose to stay away from certain aspects of devoutness.
"In contrast to the hypocrisy, doctrinairism, and corruption that was becoming rampant among the Temple hierarchy (and that would soon incite him to an open revolt), Jesus must have found the rituals nourishing. On the other hand, they may have make him uncomfortable. Certainly those who were to establish a religion in his name were uncomfortable with them. For those who would pray but not dance, fast but not feast, baptize but not splash, flog but not fuck, for those who would buy spirit but sell soul, crown Father but deceive Mother, those men found Herrod's temple a threatening place at vernal equinox and under a harvest moon."
For me, whatever evolution my spirituality takes, I know it needs to involve just as much dancing as praying, feasting as fasting, etc. Whatever god(s) I make peace with in my life must want me to embrace and not just abstain.
Day 06 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 | A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 | A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 | A photo you took
Day 10 | A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 | A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 | A fictional book
Day 14 | A non-fictional book:
Day 15 | A fanfic
Day 16 | A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 | An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 | A talent of yours
Day 20 | A hobby of yours
Day 21 | A recipe
Day 22 | A website
Day 23 | A YouTube video
Day 24 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 | Your day, in great detail
Day 26 | Your week, in great detail
Day 27 | This month, in great detail
Day 28 | This year, in great detail
Day 29 | Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 02 | Your favorite movie
Day 03 | Your favorite television program
Day 04 | Your favorite book
I think I missed doing this yesterday not because I was super busy (even though I was pretty busy...), but because I had no idea how to answer this question truthfully. I don't think I have a favorite book. I have a million favorites that satisfy the "companion" role books so often become. My favorite companion when I'm craving distopian lit is The Handmaid's Tale. My favorite companion when I'm craving a love story is The Ground Beneath Her Feet. My favorite companion when I need beautiful, sorrowful writing is The God of Small Things. My favorite companion when I'm craving coming of age is Foxfire. Magical Realism? Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates. Poetry? The Moon is Always Female. Or Meditations in an Emergency. The list is just too long.
I mean, I know it's like, so hip, to claim that you looooove to read and all, but I am an obsessive reader. I can only think of a handful of nights in the history of my personal history in which I did not read for half an hour before bed. Namely, when I've been too drunk, or it was my wedding night. :) I have personal rules and rituals about my reading habits: If I crack a book, I finish it. Stick with one at a time. Finish at least a chapter a night. If I like it, keep it or buy it because I will one day read it again. Start a children's and YA library for my someday kids. Etc.
Though I'm not without my reading faults. I currently CAN NOT get into A Farewell to Arms. In general, I'm really not a Hemingway fan. I know, right?
Day 05 | Your favorite quote
This quote is from Tom Robbin's Skinny Legs and All. I've always had a tempestuous relationship with religion. I feel I was forced into it as a child so when I was finally at a point where I could make my own decisions about church-going and the like, I chose...well, nothing. I chose to ignore the whole thing. But as an adult, I've started working my way through what parts of religion and spirituality I enjoy, and what I don't. In Skinny Legs, Robbins writes a ton about religion and it's hostile take over of pagan rituals, etc. This quote sums up nicely the reason I choose to stay away from certain aspects of devoutness.
"In contrast to the hypocrisy, doctrinairism, and corruption that was becoming rampant among the Temple hierarchy (and that would soon incite him to an open revolt), Jesus must have found the rituals nourishing. On the other hand, they may have make him uncomfortable. Certainly those who were to establish a religion in his name were uncomfortable with them. For those who would pray but not dance, fast but not feast, baptize but not splash, flog but not fuck, for those who would buy spirit but sell soul, crown Father but deceive Mother, those men found Herrod's temple a threatening place at vernal equinox and under a harvest moon."
For me, whatever evolution my spirituality takes, I know it needs to involve just as much dancing as praying, feasting as fasting, etc. Whatever god(s) I make peace with in my life must want me to embrace and not just abstain.
Day 06 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 | A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 | A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 | A photo you took
Day 10 | A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 | A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 | A fictional book
Day 14 | A non-fictional book:
Day 15 | A fanfic
Day 16 | A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 | An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 | A talent of yours
Day 20 | A hobby of yours
Day 21 | A recipe
Day 22 | A website
Day 23 | A YouTube video
Day 24 | Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 | Your day, in great detail
Day 26 | Your week, in great detail
Day 27 | This month, in great detail
Day 28 | This year, in great detail
Day 29 | Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 | Whatever tickles your fancy