The capacity human beings have for love and creativity and imagination and hope and faith and beauty and- Wait, that’s really cheating, isn’t it? I mean – what one thing is my favorite thing about the world? Well, honestly – as much as I hate them at large – people. People are amazing (and horrible). Our differences, our similarities. The way we are all unique in a thousand ways. The infinite variety of the human race, the human experience. You can never tell every story, you can never know every person. It is spectacularly brilliant to me. I marvel at it.
\n Yeah, its true. I generally abhor people.
\n But I love them.
\n People are my favorite thing about this world.<\/p>\n
FIREBALL! Opals. Languages? I mean, that is something I really want to study more in general. I keep doing Spanish on DuoLingo, but I’m kind of obsessed with Korean right now (and Japanese, low key in the background all the time). Plus, German.<\/p>\n Stronger than some. Weaker than others. Venna! Lately, I’ve been really hooked on “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson, featuring Bruno Mars. Like, I hear it and it is in my head for DAYS and I don’t even mind. I love it. It is silly and brilliantly dance-able. Catchy as fuck. I am not, but I am. Sometimes, about some things. I’d fight for my husband. For my family. I’m going to fight for a president who can fight for all of us and for candidates who can support him. I like Tiger Lilies. Orange Roses. Weeping Willows. Sure. Yes.<\/p>\n Dragons. I’ve gone into great detail about one I used to have a LOT in the past. One in which I’m being chased by a two-legged snake man and I end up in a cavern filled with snakes and it is like, evil evil evil. You can taste the evil in the air and I’m so scared, so scared, but I can’t get away and then just as something awful is about to happen – BOOM! – I wake up. Yes. Nope. I’m slow and clumsy and I’m sure my DEX score is like, 10 tops. Average. Maybe more like 8. I probably have a negative modifier, so if someone else gets Fireball<\/i> in real life, I’m fucked.\n<\/ul>\n Shorter and shorter as the meme went on, aren’t they? Ah, yes. A new month, a new week, and a Monday. Must be time for some “Weird Questions, Weird Answers” by yours truly. Well, the questions aren’t mine. I found them on Tumblr, like I found so many other dumb question sets in the past. But the answers are… <\/p>\n
\n Just kidding. Any spell? Heck, I’d think I’d be pretty set with Prestidigitation<\/i>, because it can do a lot of little things. Maybe Teleport<\/i> – so I could visit people and places without spending a cent. I mean, I’d say Wish<\/i>, but those types of spells always have such expensive material components. I mostly just want enough money in my world so that I can pay rent and our bills each month, with enough left over to get groceries and gas and maybe see a movie or something without worrying that we’ll overdraft every single time.
\n But Teleport<\/i> appeals to me right now. Visiting the family, the Timothy, the friends elsewhere, not to mention a quick trip to Korea and Japan and China and Greece and… *ahem* Yeah, Teleport<\/i>.<\/p>\n
\n With Emeralds as a close second.
\n Definitely Opals, though. I find them endlessly fascinating. <\/p>\n
\n Stronger than I was yesterday. Weaker than I’ll be tomorrow.
\n I’m evolving, bitch.<\/p>\n
\n Well, I mean, I love her. I still carrying Juno-Felicity in my heart as well. Keiko and Reeka and Anais and Azralat and Jace and Jaz the Mad Cat, too. Duke. Cannabis. Bonnie. Baby. Shelly-boy. Nilili.
\n But I think my favorite type of animal is a dog. I love them. <\/p>\n
\n Also, I will always love “Simple Man” and “Amazing Grace” and “Beautiful Goodbye” and “Inconceivable” and pretty much everything on “So Far So Good” by Bryan Adams. I could go on. I have a lot of favorite songs. Mostly old ones.<\/p>\n
\n I have fierce faith and I know the love of a higher being. I’ve felt Grace. I pray.
\n But the Bible? Nah. I mean, there are good things in it. Its existence brings me closer to God. But I acknowledge a fundamental truth about it too. It was written\/transcribed by flawed mortal men, full of their own prejudices and theories, and was touched by the circumstances of their historical context. It was then re-written, translated, interpreted a thousand times by a thousand more flawed, mortal men and women.
\n Maybe God’s true words are in there somewhere.
\n But I think it is less about the literal words in the Bible and more about the feeling behind it.
\n Here’s what I know to be true (and I totally believe in your right to believe differently, so no worries): God is Love.
\n Period.
\n That’s all.<\/p>\n
\n But not always. I’d make a bad Monk, I guess.<\/p>\n
\n Death?
\n … I mean, maybe? I guess. I like being alive, even when it sucks and I realize I’m a terrible adult\/person…<\/p>\n
\n Maple Trees like the one we had back home.
\n Pretty sculpted bushes! Rhododendrons!
\n Vegetables!
\n Herbs!
\n …I’m not much of a nature person.<\/p>\n
\n Okay, it was a BB Gun.
\n I want to learn to shoot and own a few guns, if we can ever afford it.<\/p>\n
\n In all their variations. The cat-like ones. The greedy violent ones. The intelligent ones. The crazy-cool sunrunning ones of Melanie Rawn’s world. Talking ones, feral ones. <\/p>\n
\n Luckily, I haven’t had that one in years. Probably because the people who were in my life and were very snake-like, are no longer in my life.
\n Also, my sense of lack of control is manifesting in lots of varied dreams these days. HAH.
\n There was one about a flood where I was trying to save someone I knew and loved (almost always someone different), but I won’t go into that one now either. I’m still a little skeeved out remembering the devil-snake.<\/p>\n
\n I think it would make me a better writer, if I could really understand how other people think. I know my own brain is weird\/atypical, so I have to stretch to figure out how other people see things.
\n But that’s one of the fun things about writing, isn’t it?<\/p>\n
\n That happens sometimes; I get a little fed up with my word vomit by the end of a meme. Also, probably the same thing with my novels. I’ll have to work on that. Because I hate when an ending feels rushed in other people’s works.
\n Signing off for now… <\/p>\n![\"Signed,](\"http:\/\/jeezjosie.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/signature.jpg\")
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