What are your favorite websites?
I started responding to this, but got interrupted, and couldn’t reign it back in. So, i’ll give you the gist…
i don’t have a favorite. I don’t think of websites in that way. ‘Favorite’ implies positive emotion, and a website’s design does nothing to improve my emotional state.
What is your favorite form of physical exercise?
This has certainly changed over the years, but currently? Walking.
Eventually, i want to be able to change that answer to “running”.
Got some work to do still. 😉
What was the hardest personal goal you’ve set for yourself?
To walk normally again and be able to retire my fucking cane – let it collect dust, lonely and unused in a dark corner of the house.
What is your favorite hobby or pastime?
It’e not eating seeds… lol
Writing, thinking, or listening to music. Or, some combination thereof.
Where did your name come from?
Etymologically? From Latin.
In reality as it pertains to me? It was my great-great-grandmother’s name. i am told that she was very special to my grandfather, and he called me “Laurie” in a letter he wrote to me before I was born. He didn’t even ask my parents what they were planning to name me! 😝
What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?
Strong senses of both integrity and self.
What change, big or small, would you like your blog to make in the world?
I would want my writing to inspire people to think, to wonder, and to embrace the randomness of each.
List 30 things that make you happy.
Write about a random act of kindness you’ve done for someone.
Wow. I dunno what to say here.
Let someone into traffic? Done it, many, many times.
Gave someone money they dropped? Yep.
Randomly complimented someone? Sure have!
Helped a stranger in a parking lot jump start their car? Yeah, done that too.
The thing is, i don’t see these as “random acts of kindness”… i see them as being a decent fucking human.
Maybe that’s the thing. Maybe we need to stop treating kindness as this rare altruistic act and instead consider it as a basic quality of being alive…
Just my two cents.
How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?
The same way i would to someone who can… i’m intelligent, kind, caring, nerdy, and a bit strange.
Not a damn thing about me that actually matters has anything to do with how I look.
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 