A couple days ago I posted the answers to interview questions from Christine over at Quiet Paths, who was interviewed by Kat over at Poetikat...who was interviewed by someone else...you get the picture. I volunteered to be interviewed by Christine and wrote my answers on Blog Tag: You're It ; then asked for the next generation of those who wanted to be interviewed to let me know. Since posting, four requests to be interviewed have come in. Here are links to the first two of the so-far four interviews, posted to their respective blogs.
I don't know Richard over at Bundle of His(s) very well, yet. He and I and possibly Carole at Watermaid Musing are considering how to format a meme or prompt page on our sites to work with philosophical, mystical and spiritual terms that would encourage further reflection. After e-meeting Richard, I poked about on his site a tad, and found myself smiling at his particular slice-o-life. It was fun writing interview questions for him and delightful reading his answers. Here's the link to his interview responses called 'Interview Tag. Below is a teaser from his first interview question which was about tying being Polish to being nice:
I like to tell myself I’m all Polish, but I’m only 50% with the other half a mongrelized mix of Scots, German, and whatever, though I was brought up in an all Polish household. (As an infant I was given to an aunt and uncle to raise, and never went back to the birth parents.) So, even though I think I’m a nice guy, by those percentages, and if being Polish is the key, then I’m only 1/2 a nice guy – or maybe 3/4, considering the household. My friend, Marek, who is from the old country and so 150% Polish, is a nice guy. Is he nicer than I am, and by what percentage? We could ask Marek, but he’s probably too nice to say.
I visit Carole's site, Watermaid Musing almost every week, as she is a regular writer for One Single Impression, a poetry prompt site that we both enjoy. When she asked to be interviewed for this blog-tag game, it was great fun to come up with some interview questions for her. And, she wrote some delectable answers. Hope you enjoy this one too! It's also called 'blog tag: you're it' Here's a teaser from the first interview question about 'why watermaid?'
'Watermaid’ is one of a sequence of poems in ‘Labyrinths with Path of Thunder’ written by African poet, Christopher Okigbo, who died fighting for Biafra in the Sixties. His poems, only available second-hand, in back copies of Transitions or in the Appendix of Aestheticism & Modernism, contain a mixture of Judeo-Christianity (notably Genesis and Revelation), African religion and African colonial and post-colonial history.
Please sashay over to Carole and Richard's sites! If you're interested in being interviewed by either of them, or by me, leave us comments on our respective posts, and we'll formulate diabolical interview questions just for you.
I will post the next two interviews when they come in, and I hope there are others out there that want to play!