September 15, 2005

• INTERVIEW WITH MIKE

  
  

   

  
  

  On Tuesday, Aug. 30th, Pam (screaminginmyhead) asked me five interview questions, and what with that week's "Hometown Entries" from the Featured Grownups blogring site plus my usual Poetry and Photo Posts, plus extra poetry and usual articles, I just haven't been able to post this entry "answering" those interview questions until now. I always think of myself as "being behind" and it's only two and a half weeks later, but here is my Q&A response. Now, if any of my readers wants me to "give you an interview", then "ask" me to interview you in your comment to this post. If you write "Interview Me" I wll send you five questions. I'd prefer to send them in email if you have it, and if not, I will sign your blog's guestbook. Pam left me these questions in a comment and I had to go back through a hundred or so comments on different entries which took quite a bit of time. So, here we go.

  
  

  YOUR FIVE QUESTIONS

  
  

  1. Do you believe in a higher power if so ...what higher power and what substantiates your belief?

  
  

  I can answer this elaborately with two links, since my spiritual beliefs are already online. First, read "The Books of the Realizations" which outlines my personal quest for spirituality, and then read the entries in "The Universal Blog", in which I answer "specific" questions about my faith. To sum it up for this question, I was born and raised a Baptist, and wanted to be a minister. I dropped out of the church when young because of political maneuverings after our pastor died. After my parents' deaths when I was in college I became a Pentacostal, but left after too many Bible studies seemed to be studying "the end times" and I was young and didn't want to think about the end of the world. I would probably be pigeonholed as a "new ager". I believe in Jesus Christ, but also in a Pantheistic world view in which spirit is embodied in other life and in geology. When I talk about the "godhead" I mean not only "Jesus" but "Gaia" as well.

  
  

  2. if you could spend a day with someone famous (dead or alive) who and why?

  
  

  I guess first we would have to define what you mean by "famous". Having one's face on the cover of People magazine might make one "famous". Andy Warhol (who is still "famous' and "dead") once said everyone would be famous for 15 minutes, hence the ubiquitous phrase "15 minutes of fame." If I could spend a day with anyone, famous or not, it would be with my mother (rest her soul) so I could apologize for leaving her bedside, believing she was a "vegetable" two years before her death. If one could revisit the dead, then she is the one with whom I would spend the day. She might not have ever appeared on People. (The magazine didn't even start till after her death, I don't believe) but she's "famous" to me because she gave me birth, and that is fame enough for me.

  
  

  3. If you had to choose death by fire or water which and why?

  
  

  I hope I never have to "choose" death. I don't believe in suicide anyway. But for the hypothetical bent of your question, I would choose water. We enter this world through water, our bodies are made up of about 80 percent water, and returning to the Universal in this way would be preferable for me than burning to death, which probably hurts.

  
  

  4. Who has impacted your life most and how?

  
  

  I have known so many and have learned so much. I really can't single anyone out. I will group these people unter the heading of "My teachers". The have impacted my life the most, because they "taught" me about life and my role in it. My teachers in school so long ago, Mr. Gardner, in 7th grade, who interested me in the "art of writing" and introduced me to  "Roge'ts Thesaurus", Mrs. Huebner, who wrote on my freshman "autobiography", "A+: You have a deeply personal way of writing. Don't ever lose this.", my "Godfather", Jim, my first "boss" at FedMart stores, who taught me the inner workings of great companies, and introduced me to the term "realization", Harry, my "east coast" friend, who taught me that you can learn as much or more "on the streets" as you can in books, My best and dearly departed friend Tom, who taught me that people are beautiful, and introduced me to jazz and blues music, which fills my life with gladness and sadness. Currently , there is a special someone who is impacting my life incredibly and beautifully, and I'm learning from her as well, specifically, how to love after having lost this emotion for more than a decade. 

  
  

  5. What do you want to be remembered for?

  
  

  I hope somebody saves and remembers the words I have written, and the emotion I have poured into them thoughout my life. I hope that by the time I die, my "website' can be saved, like a Memorial or Legacy, and that people will be able to "read me like a book" as has always been my intention, since the age of 14, when I started writing. Perhaps I'll attempt to publish someday. I wanted to be a world famous author until I realized that poets aren't really noticed by the world at large. I wanted to write the "Great American Novel". Perhaps I still shall, as I am still "young" at 52. What I really want to do is direct. As computer software and hardware gets larger and faster, the means for "normal people" to make stunning professional "videos" and "films" is getting closer and closer. I would love to "create" something singular and emotion filled that will have people "wowing" into the future. These are exciting and dreadful times in which we live. But it has been proven that creativity does surface on the internet, and people do notice.
  Perhaps I'll even have my picture on the cover of People magazine, and get my "15 minutes" of fame for something I did that will last. Who knows?

  
  

  Thank you Pam, for some very worthwhile and  stimulating questions, and I hope I have supplied some worthwhile and stimulating answers.
  

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