Old-Fashioned Fruitcake
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Martin Luther King famously had one. Fantine used to have one (in times gone by). W.B. Yeats claimed to have nothing but his.
What are your dreams? Not the dreams which fill your sleeping mind, but those to which your waking mind steals away whenever it can. What do you dream?
What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever done? Let the eccentricity be unabashed and abounding!
The weirdest thing I’ve ever done? I’ll tell you on Friday. A clue: it involved bells and a rolled-up newspaper.
Do you learn best through hands-on experimentation? Or hearing it explained – by yourself or someone else? Or do you need to see it written down in order to remember?
Does understanding come to you through description? Or diagrams? Or do you need to see it done?
Or are you one of the remarkable few who can understand those instruction booklets translated from one language to another by someone who apparently spoke neither?