Let me share with you my favorites, so you may agree or disagree.
- Food: Shepherd's Pie or Mexican
- Color: Green (currently, but you know how colors are)
- Baked good: Banana Bread
- Genre: Science Fiction (this is where he began to be surprised and amused.)
- Scent: Vanilla Extract
- Flavor: Vanilla Almond (in desserts/breakfast).
- Snuggly Things: My cats or heavy blankets
- Font: Cambria
- Cartoon Character: The Catbus from Totoro (which I had to explain to him, both Totoro and the Catbus. And then admit that they aren't really "characters" as much as ideas/constructs.)
- Superhero: Green Lantern (The Green Lantern Corps as a whole, not Hal Jordan. I love the light in the darkness and the harnessing of the power of will, that what you create is only as strong as your character and strength of heart, but that within those limits they can create ANYTHING.)
- Place to drink a cup of coffee: Lestat's on Park or at my kitchen table over really good conversation
- Inspirational Quote: "You might say that the difference between us and you is that we have been infected by a vision of another world... It lives in our souls and we can't help striving toward it." -Fraa Erasmus in Anathem, by Neal Stephenson
- Thing to do when you have literally nothing else to do: curl up with my cats and read a really good book that I have picked out for the sole pleasure of enjoying reading it.
It's funny. In rewriting all of them, I am amused not only by the theme of "interesting ideas," the power of ideas, and creativity, but by the contrast that all of my crazy brain favorites have with my physical body favorites. Foods, flavors, scents, and snuggly things are all comfort and safety based. Shepherd's Pie, Mexican Food, Banana Bread, baking with Vanilla, all relate directly back to things I have been eating and making with my family since childhood. They are staples of my life. My cats and my heavy blankets are also staples of home and security.
Current summation of my thoughts on this: I like to send my brain on far flung adventures to the edges of its capability through reading, writing, conversing, etc, but in order to balance out the constant stress and tension of new ideas churning and growing and stretching and changing in my head, I create a physical world that is stable, secure, and comforting. If my brain isn't safe where it is, at least my body is.
The more I've written about this, the more I feel like there are layers and layers here. I think this even ties down into my depression making my own head an unsafe or unhappy place to reside full time. I wonder how my artistic outlets tie into this. So far we've got that I love to be absorbed in new and interesting ideas and like to surround myself with the secure and stable. Both forms of input, really.
What about my output? And what about my faith?
