Finishing Proust

Tuesday, 2 March 2010, 1:33 | Category : proust
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I started the Proust questionnaire a few months ago and never got around to finishing it.
I’m going to finish off the answers in this post (thus, bringing an end to the project … for now).
What is your favorite occupation?
Currently, I work in foster care adoptions and am an instructor for the Human Services department at [...]

what do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

Monday, 14 December 2009, 9:10 | Category : proust
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being untrue to yourself.  i know we are a collection of personas that we show to the world – and sometimes we even forget our authentic self because of all the masks we wear, but when you know who you are – when you are connected to your authentic self, and you go against it…. [...]

what is your most treasured possession?

Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 21:02 | Category : proust
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i have lost so many material possessions in my life so far that i don’t know that i can say there is any particular one thing i could not live without.  but as far as being treasured, i have the quilt my mother made me as a small child – i helped her make it [...]

where would you most like to live?

Wednesday, 25 November 2009, 20:59 | Category : proust
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barring the hurricanes, i really do love living in south florida.  i have found that i don’t do well in drier climates – my asthma and skin/sinuses really rebel. i will always love my childhood home of texas, but my adult home has become south florida.

if you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?

Sunday, 22 November 2009, 20:02 | Category : proust
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i can’t think of any person, specifically, i’d like to come back as – like what type of person or lifestyle or position … i think there’s so much that is left to chance and circumstance in a person’s life on what happens.  when you add in a person’s resilency and tenacity – that’s where [...]