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Carole and Richard play B-tag

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.

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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!

Published Friday, February 06, 2009 3:12 AM by Beth Patterson
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Richard Wells said:

Hee hee.  First time I've ever been interviewed.  I feel famous.  Probably won't get the full 15 minutes though.  Thanks, Beth.

February 6, 2009 11:43 AM
 

Stop Bugging Me « Watermaid’s Weblog said:

February 6, 2009 3:56 PM
 

Carole Alexander said:

In honour of the 15 minutes of fame thing, I've resurrected a sonnet.

<a href="http://watermaid.wordpress.com/2009/02/06/stop-bugging-me/"stop bugging me</a>.

Thanks Beth. I do hope I get some takers as it would be fun to make up the questions.

February 6, 2009 3:59 PM
 

Beth Patterson said:

The blog-tag game has been fun!&#160; I've had the joy of giving five interviews, four of which will

February 11, 2009 1:16 AM
 

Beth Patterson said:

S. over at 52 Faces found the Virtual Tea House through Christine's site Abbey of the Arts , and then

March 16, 2009 11:51 PM
 

Beth Patterson said:

S. over at 52 Faces found the Virtual Tea House through Christine's site Abbey of the Arts , and then

March 16, 2009 11:53 PM

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The Virtual Tea House website became 'word-ripe' when, over a cup of jasmine green, I realized that the web has an expanding part to play in the communal aspects of spiritual growth.

With a master's degree in religion, my career spans 20 years in end of life care and I currently work in the field of child abuse intervention and advocacy.

Here in beautiful Central Oregon, my spiritual homes of the high desert and the mountains are both in proximity. And for good measure, four hours away is Grandmother Ocean and the stunning Oregon Coast.

I'm making decent progress on the goal set by my mother early on: she taught us that the goal of humanity should be to become ever-more eccentric, i.e. more fully human.

Entering the 'forest-dweller' phase of life, I am honored to host the Virtual Tea House for all who wish to explore how our lives are enriched and made new a thousand times each day by the spirituality we embody. Exploring this engagement together is the purpose of the Virtual Tea House.

Welcome! Let's have a cup of virtual tea together and share what brings us joy, what we are being taught by life, how we are leaning into the Big Questions posed to us each day in sometimes 'distressing disguises'.

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