Playing 20 questions
Questions about self:
1. How can I continue to increase my father’s quality of life for the time he has left?
2. I just censored a question because I realized that I didn’t want people outside this group reading it. But it’s a really good question. What do I do about that?
3. How do I help facilitate but also participate in a meeting about my husband’s business?
4. How do I make the necessary points in this meeting in a level-headed fashion without guillotining everyone in the room (except my husband, that is)?
5. How do I cope with enormous changes in the structure of my family?
6. How do I think about utilizing the work we’ve done together this summer when I’m not even sure where I’ll be in September?
7. How do I create real balance in my life?
8. Six weeks more of summer — clean house, throw away half of what I own, dedicate a serious amount of time to writing, keep taking care of my dad, be available and pro-active about work, try to have at least a couple of “get-aways”…can I get it all done?
9. How do I continue increasing and growing my links with extended family, so that I don’t feel so adrift in the world?
10. This begins to feel like I’m talking to an oracle. What does the future hold for me?
Wide world questions:
1. To quote Marvin Gaye (thinking about my puzzlement re: the situation of the whole great big world and how we got ourselves into the various gigantic messes that confront us right now) what’s goin’ on?
2. In an era when so-called “accountability” seems to be the priority of educational systems, how do we reform the antiquated curriculum so that students actually can make choices for themselves?
3. Curriculum: What should be kept as mandatory, necessary? What could actually be thrown out or placed in the “optional” or “electives” box?
4. Who’s going to get to make the decisions in #3? How do we become the decision-makers?
5. How do we use what we know and what we can do to create more equity?
6. How is any new president of these here Yoo-nited States going to deal with what is beginning to sound like a 5 trillion dollar debt?
7. How do we as human beings face moral/ethical questions that influence us personally, like do I choose someone over myself? Can I find a way to do what I need to for myself while still working within the best interests of others?
