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I'm at the age where...
Clifton
I'm at an age where I'm saying goodbye to a lot of people, things, and delusions.
What's the best thing about where you live?
Clifton
Funny thing, I don't like where I live and yet I've barely ever lived anywhere else. I always ended up back here. This question is making me very uncomfortable for some reason.
What, or who, has saved your life?
Clifton
Prayer. The practice of belief in a power greater than myself.
What values of yours have remained the same?
Clifton
Courage. Responsibility. Commitment.
What was, or is, your dream career?
Clifton
My dream career would be to have several dream careers going at once, involving: Some manner of teaching/counseling/mentoring; Music, poetry and art; and Writing, reading and analyzing.
How do you allow for expansion in your life?
Clifton
Pain provides all I need. And the pain is proportional to the degree of ego I have invested in a particular way of seeing things.
How do you respond to negative people?
Clifton
It depends on who they are. Usually, I parody them.
On what do you most enjoy spending money?
Clifton
My guitar rig.
How would you define success?
Clifton
Success is the attainment of wholeness.
How would your future self inspire you?
Clifton
By being entirely free of self-consciousness and affectation, noble in reason, infinite in faculties, in form and moving express and admirable, in action like an angel, in apprehension like a god!
QaR
August 2008 