Mixed Meme

[qos]

Via _storyteller_. . . mostly because I'm very interested in the recommendations this group will throw at me.

A) First, recommend to me:
1. A movie:
2. A book:
3. A musical artist, song, or album:

B) Next, Everyone who reads this ask me three questions, no more, no less. Ask me anything you want.
1.
2.
3.

C) Then, go to your journal and copy and paste this, allowing your friends to ask you anything.

Comments

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My mother had been a social science major in college before she dropped out. She had all sorts of books from college and assorted places that we kept in the garage of the house. One of the things she would do is go out to the college and take all the books that they didn't want to keep anymore. Growing up, I would rummage through these piles and boxes of books and find and dig out the ones that looked interesting and put them in my personal book collection in my room.

One of the ones I found was Illusions. I still have it with me and read it regularly. I found it at a time when I was first comming into my own as a seeker, and I was playing in my mind about the questions of choice and free will about freedom and privacy. These thoughts would become the most important thoughts in my life until I joined the military. I based my path around the concept of personal freedom. Then I joined the military and learned about service and social freedom.

The house you describe sounds wonderfull. My own dream home would need many of the same comforts. The best example for me of a dream home is the house that [Unknown site tag] jediyinyang lives in. It is a large house shaped like a pagoda. The main part of the house is actually on the third story. You walk through an herb garden and small personal orchard to get to the steps, the steps take you up to the entry alcove. The alcove opens up to a reception area. There is a large kitchen, a formal dining area, a living room, an office area, a master bedroom and a bathroom all on this floor, aranged in a hexagon shape around the center of the house (the entire house is a hexagon). The center area is a library, with stairs leading up to a loft that forms the top tier of the pagoda design. The entire design is very open air, most of the major interior walls are simply double sided bookshelves build into the frame of the house. From the main area there are stairs leading down. The second floor contains a second bathroom and three more rooms (bedrooms or whatever, one is currently where Ryan's father maintains his practice). The next set of small steps leads down into a 600 sq foot dojo and exercise room. With an adjoining garage/storage area. Both have external exits to the driveway. One of the things that I love about the house is there is simple no wasted space. The entire design is seemless . Oh and the house sits at the peak of the tallest hill in the area and overlooks the northernmost end of the San Fransisco bay.