Pottery. Or it used to be.  I had a potters wheel, kick and motor.  I loved working the clay through my fingers and watching how just a little bit of steady pressure could transform a lump of misshapen clay into something beautiful.  I had to give this up because I moved into a condo and there was no way for me to get my stuff up the stairs.  I just sold my kiln and wheel.  So I would say throwing pots but I can't do that anymore.  So I would have to say drawing with water soluble pastels.  You can smudge them or use them to make sharp and crisp lines. As a drawing medium the sky is the limit.  They are generally my favorite in Autumn anyways. There are a million things to put to paper in the fall with all the riot of colors.  

There is a lady named Renee that I use to work and be friends with at a company called Maritz.  I left the business years ago and I know that she has married, but I would love to talk to her.  We had a discussion years ago in which she stood her ground against me and at least 4 other people.  She stood by her convictions.  This was years ago and we agreed to drop the discussion and just respect each others differences.  A year after I left the company and years after this discussion I realized that she was right and I have been wanting to let her know and thank her ever since, but have not been able to find her.  I just want to thank her and apologize, because I was wrong.

Nature, any place where you can be alone with God's creation.  For me I like to hike back into Ha Ha Tonka with a sketch pad and some charcoal and just sketch something out at random or bring my daughter and a camera and enjoy the silence. 

The best letter I received was one informing that I had graduated with my associates degree and had made the dean's list.  This may seem trivial, but as a single mom trying to overcome past mistakes this was monumental.  I work full time and raise my daughter on my own. I am not on welfare or social assistance and have been paying and going to school on my own for what seems like forever.  My time is always short and sleep is rare.  So this letter made me feel like it was worth it because I am accomplishing my goals.  It may take longer because I can only take 2 to 3 classes at a time and only work or do my homework when my daughter is at school or a sleep, but it is worth it.

My destiny involves serving others.  I will make a difference in this world.  I am not sure what my desitny actually is, but I know God has allowed me to stay here for a purpose.  I have dreams of opening a half way house for single mothers that don't qualify for the state and federal programs, but still need help.  To create a community that works together to give each other a leg up and then turns around to give others a helping hand once their life has been improved.  I think this is one thing missing from the welfare system, once people get off the system they don't truly contribute to the system that game them a hand up.  What if people did?  These programs could help a lot more people and they wouldn't be used as simple hand out programs.  I am not talking money, but what about people time.  I would also like to find a way to purchase derilect buildings in the city and knock them down and create gardens through out the city.  I may be crazy, but I care.

The Virgo character is precise, refined, and a lover of cleanliness, hygiene and order. Conventional, with a rather reserved manner. They are usually observant, shrewd, critical, and patient. Supporters of the 'status quo', and conservative in all areas of life. Virgos are undemonstrative due to a coolness in their nature. Very selective, and non committal in friendship, they prefer to keep relationships on a superficial basis.
Quietly reserved, Virgos are polite and soft spoken people. Unassuming, outwardly cheerful and agreeable, they can be sensible, discreet, wise and witty, with an understanding of other people's problems which they tackle with deftness. Virgos find their friends among those who can help them move up the social strata. They can be name droppers as they like to associate with achievers.

 Ok, so NOT  1) I don't like being defined.  I am clean and I like order, but I am not really conventional and am generally not reserved.  A lot of this fits.  One thing about Virgos is that they tend to be organized.  I do alphabetize my dvd's but I am more organized when it comes to people.  I bring people together that would not meet any other way. They often end up becomming the best of friends.  
I am not soft spoken although I am often sensible.  I am not a name dropper because I don't care about who you know I care about who you are.

My ex having 2 kids and hiding it while our daughter was only a year old.  Enough said

Probably the people on this site.  I have no fear of reprisal here

Integrity.  I will not cheat someone or tell them I am going to do one thing and do another.  I refuse to fake who and what I am.  I will always be genuine.

This is what other people have told me.  I am unique because I do not recognize personal.emotional boundaries.  The walls that people put up around their hearts.  Because I don't recognize or even consider them to exist I can generally walk right through them as if they don't.  When I was 17 I met one of my best friends.  He was a friend of a friend.  I just walked right up to him and gave him a hug (he stood there with his hands clenched in fists at his sides)  years later he told me I scared the hell out him, but it made him like me/feel comfortable around me from the word go.  A lot of my friends think that when it comes to people I have a child like mentality.  I have decided that I am going to like you, so why wouldn't you like me??? I like everybody.  LOL  So I don't know if I am unique or just strange, but there it is.

A balanced life means that you are giving out as much as you are receiving in.  You work and have money to take care of your family, but you actually spend time with your family.  Family is more than blood relatives its whomever you care about.  My life is balance sometimes and out of kilter and other times.  Sometime I take more than I give and sometimes I give it all away.  I will say it will balance over the span of my lifetime, but I am probably imbalanced at any given point.  Wow does that make me sound nuts?

Physics was my favorite class, but that is not what was asked now was it.  As boring as this is English Comp II was the most useful course.  It helped me organize my thoughts and arguments and express them in a way that other people can actually understand.  It also taught me how to look at other peoples opinions and motivations.  Perspective has a lot to do with how we make decisions and being able to look at things from a variety of angles before I make a decision has proved valuable.

Raising my child and giving her a thirst for knowledge is my own personal cause. 

The best thing about getting older is that all that means is that you have had more time to gain more experiences.  A lot of people gain a lot of experience at a young age, for some it takes more time.  Experience helps you discover who you are and where you are going and a better way to be.  My friends got upset when they turned 30, I was excited, I was so happy that I had made it to 30.  Giving my past history of deadly illness and accidents it was quite a feat.  I love getting older, given that the alternative is the end of this round on the roller coaster how could you not?

That of a parent.  My daughter watches and hears just about everything I day or do.  I am her role model, sometime I'm a good one, sometime I am awful, but I strive to do my best.  My daughter has put me to shame with her selflessness at times and it amazes me when she tells me she is just doing what I would do.... I must of showed her the art of giving somewhere down the line because she gives even when I have reservations. She's 9 and I can't wait to see the woman she is becoming

Joy.  There are times that joy hits me so deeply that it brings me to tears.  Ever since I left my ex and began to walk down the path of self discovery I learned to feel things other than anger and joy is what hits me hardest.  Sometime it is just brought on by a look on my daughters face, or song on the radio, but it bubble up in me and makes me want to laugh, dance and cry at the same time.  I love it.  LOL

How much do you or God love anything?  You can describe and use comparison but you cannot quantify love.  I hope you all have infinite love.

The giving of individual people.  That moment when one human being sees the suffering of another and offers them a hand up.  People represent the most horrendous acts of cruelty and evil, but we also represent the most beautiful act of love, mercy, and compassion.  So my answer is the everyday human being.

In a word..... TWISTED.  I have gone off the beaten path so many times.  I have found that for me, the majority of the time I just need to make my own.  I just needed to pick a destination.

Doubt....Is that an emotion.  Sometime I doubt myself, a decision, others, or a situation.  It is like erosion.  It will slowly undermine my confidence and happiness if I allow it. So I try to stay away from it. LOL

Well, I know my body well, but don't like it all that much.  It's a love hate kind of relationship. 

I was thinking about this today, because I was watching my daughter and how she interacts with other children.  She has the same  problem or gift that I do.  She does not understand or comprehend "clicks".  I never got it either.  In grade school I thought I didn't have many friends.  It turns out I had many??? A bunch of kids confronted me at camp, actually asked me why I didn't think they wanted to be friends with me.  In high-school the same thing happened at a retreat.  I was scared.  I was willing to be anyones friend I just wasn't ready to let anyone really, truly be mine.  I know that doesn't make sense and I still struggle with it today.

What I worry about is how do I help my daughter not follow my footsteps.  How do I let her know that it is a good thing to let people be your friend.  That it is reciprocal that everything is not just about giving and that sometimes receiving is just as important??? This is something I truly have to consider.

My 9year old daughter.  She is the most tenderhearted, giving, kindest, person I know.  She always gives of her time and her own earned money, she doesn't understand when and why people are mean.  Definitely my daughter

100 would go to charity and 900 would go to my credit card bill.  Sad but true.

I would uninvent the combustion engine.  That maybe surprising, but think of it this way. Less pollution, Lower population.  Better planet.  A lot of thing lead off of the combustion engine.  I wish our world was bigger.

No, I think I would get board.  I like the work, but I don't come in contact with enough people.  I am an individual who feels the need to constantly be learning something new, and while I have that opportunity here at the moment as time goes on those opportunities may fade and that is when I will run into trouble. 

Don't be afraid and go for it.  Everything will turn out just fine.  Keep talking to him you will regret it if you don't.  Don't be afraid to take a change and don't give up

I enjoy my work and obviously get paid for it, but if I got paid for what I was passionate about....(cooking)  it would some how cheapen it.  I like to make special desserts and meals for people I love.  I make gourmet dinners out of cheaper ingredients.  I like to be paid with smiles and MMMMMMM's if you know what I mean, but to get paid money would make it a job and not a labor of love that I enjoy immensely.  Many people have suggested that I open a restaurant or catering business, but I think it would change the way I look at cooking and would bridle my creativity.

Going to the fabric store to purchase velvet to make my daughter a "bag of infinite depth" for Halloween.  She is going to be Hermione from the Harry Potter series and "NEEDS" the bag to complete her outfit.  I love doing anything creative with my daughter, she's 9 and her giggles just make joy blossom in my heart every-time I hear it.  What more can I say??? LOL

This is kind of sad.  I took a couple of days to seriously think about this question and I don't feel similar to anyone that I know.  I am in a somewhat unique situation.  I am a single parent (yeah I know these days that is nothing extra ordinary sad to say), but I also work at a family business, go to school, and am involved in my church, and in all of my daughters actvities.  I would love to date, but have no time.... I'd be asking a guy to, hey I'd love to go out, but I don't have time so if you would like to spend sometime together  how about we run errands together, or you could come with me to my daughter's dance class or girlscouts, or how about volunteering with me for the vetrans group at my church.  Yeah right!!!  Anyway I enjoy my like and what I do, but I think a lot differently than the average person I come in contact in the midwest.  Maybe I live in the wrong place or time??? Nope there is no one like me.