Joyce at "From This Side of the Pond" used one of my past questions (#2 below) in her Wednesday Hodgepodge post today. If you want to participate or read others' answers check out her blog. Here are the questions with my answers.
My wife Ann does our taxes using Web Turbo Tax and I edit and review.2. Which do you think has changed you more - love or pain?
Pain came into my life very early and made me bitter. Love came in about five years later and turned my world upside down. Fifteen years later pain hit again and made me more compassionate. Five years later love came in and wowed me to the core. Since then I think that my life has been changed more by pain than love. But I am open to love rocking my world in a major way. :)3. Tangerine Tango has been named color of the year for 2012. Your thoughts? Would I find this color anywhere in your house? How about in your closet? If not, will you be adding this color to your life in some way in 2012?
I bought a yellow Chiefs cap last year. Don't see tangerine invading my life in 2012.4. Are you a collector? What do you collect and does it get admired, used, and/or dusted regularly?
I am not a collector.5. February is National Heart Month...besides a green salad what is one tasty heart healthy dish you like to prepare?
I like salmon but tend to eat it with a loaded baked potato.6. When was the last time you had car trouble?
Last month I replaced my 11 month old battery. Odd because the battery had a 5 year warranty.7. Have you been more demanding on yourself lately or less?
Less. Retirement has given me perspective about priorities.8. Insert your own random thought here.
Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody? -GK ChestertonIf you want to participate or read others' answers check out Wednesday Hodgepodge.
I like how your own random thoughts happen to come from another person
ReplyDeleteI did think of it even though I didn't say it originally. :)
DeleteThanks for your question, it was very thought provoking. You are the only other person who said Pain besides me so far. I love your quote in random thoughts.
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by Mitchypoo! Sometimes people of faith have a difficult time speaking of the ways that pain has changed them. And some have experienced love that overshadows their pain. Of course some people have simply had fairly easy lives.
DeleteLove so much of Chesterton's writing! I'm pretty sure the salmon cancels out all the fat in a loaded baked potato : )
ReplyDeleteThanks Joyce! There is fat in a loaded bake potato?
DeleteGood questions this week, thank you for yours. I've read both pain and love to your question.
ReplyDeleteThanks LynnMarie! Pain and love do seem to be fluid forces in our lives.
DeleteGreat answers to all those...but I think you'd look cute in Tango Tangerine :)
ReplyDeletePain has changed me more than love, and I've experienced much more pain in my life than love. Its made me stronger, more compassionate, determined. Its also made me miserable, hopeless and despondent. I go back and forth between those!
Great answer Barbara! So much insight in your answer.
DeleteEnjoyed reading your answers to Joyce's questions. Enjoy the rest of your week.
ReplyDeleteThanks Debby!
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