Favorite word – jouissance.
Least favorite word – crusader. (considering some of the medieval crusaders were cannibals, for example.)
Turn Ons – stars on a clear summer night, alpine flowers, someone playing guitar in a foreign country on new year’s eve, notes on a piano, the words pianissimo and fortissimo, avocado, mango, spontaneous dancing, frida kahlo, laughter that shakes you or makes you cry.
Turn Offs – a walled off concrete yard like my neighbor’s, refusals, industrial carpets, intentional or careless cruelty, cannibalism, people who don’t look at the faces of people who serve them.
Favorite Noise(s) – cello music, my best friend and my nephews’ voices, birds in the morning, even roosters.
Least Favorite – car alarms, or leaf blowers, especially in the a.m.
Favorite Curse Word- shit. just shit.
Dream Job – poet and baker. Or professional wanderer and flower collector like john muir. Or butterfly hunter like Henri Mahout, the Frenchman who accidentally stumbled across Angkor Wat. Or a modern day abolitionist.
Worst Job – slavery.
What I'd like to hear at the Pearly Gates – no one need worry about how to love or to be loved here.
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I love all your choices, but for curse word I'm going to have to go with "Fuck-all."
hidden, fuck-all is a good one. I can't remember now my string of words I used when working in massachusettes, but I'm guessing that you can remember...
bellweather....funny that you should mention those two. I suppose it isn't industrial carpets that the slave make but those thick comfy "good price" ones.....sigh....
delia, thank-you. I love your piece about the gulf and hope more read it....so awful what's happening there....
I'm impressed by your precision: not just guitar playing, but in a foreign country; not just anytime, but on new year's eve. Not just any walls; your neighbor's walls. You know what you like and dislike!
And slavery, yes. The most unfortunate of states.
I'm glad that you made yourself known to us, just a little, here. Thanks for taking part!
Oddly, it takes a decent amount of guts for me to post to an open call. Good for you. This was fun to write, I bet, and fun to read for certain.
=)