All about me in a box

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This is a particularly thoughtful meme I saw in draco_kc's journal.

So, say you were meeting a new person--blind date, new friend, who knows. And you wanted them to have some idea of what kind of person you are, and who you are. But you can't actually tell them in so many words. Instead, you have to give them a box, with a dozen things in it for them to look at/read/listen to/taste/whatever. "What would you put in the box? And a copy of your journal or a link to your LJ would be the same thing as just telling them directly, yourself, so that's not allowed."


Here is my list:

1. A portfolio of about 10 of my poems, carefully chosen, but starting with: The Water Lover, Bathhouse Lovers, Syllables White, First Day of Autumn, and Made In Secret (which is about my daughters).



2. One of my drawings: Waterspout.



3. Forest Plants of Central Ontario, by Chambers, Legasy and Bentley.



4. This picture of me and djjo (friends only).



5. My camera, a Kodak DX3500.



6. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard.



7. The sheet music for Rachmaninoff's Prelude in D Major, Op. 23 No. 4.



8. These photos of me with my daughters.



9. The recording of The Waterloo-Wellington Rainbow Chorus performing at the Canadian GALA Festival in Toronto, June 2002.



10. A photograph of Lake Fletcher.



11. 30 metres of soft rope.



12. My Caterpillar walking boots.