Posted by Chris Corrigan - 31/01/08 at 08:01:58 pm
Johnnie Moore tagged me to reveal eight things about myself you probably didn’t know and then tag eight others…alright then.
- Since 1987 I have worked with the I Ching as a way to understand the pattern language of change, using it to sharpen my seeing about all kinds of situations. I don’t use it as a fortune telling device, rather as a user’s manual to change. It is one of my oldest practices, although by no means a daily one.
- Since January 1986 I have kept written journals which have recorded 22 years of living. They are less diaries and more just notebooks of many shapes and sizes. I have only lost one, spanning a period of nine months or so during which a close friend was murdered. It was in a bag I had stolen at a gig.
- All eight of my great-grandparents were born in Canada, and most of my 16 great-great-grandparents were born here too. For a country of immigrants, and considering that most of my ancestry is European, that is a remarkable stat. In 2001 only 4% of all Canadians had all four of their grandparents born here. My wife is South African by birth, so my kids and grandkids will be firmly in the other 96%.
- I have only owned two cars my entire life, but too many bicycles to count. Because I grew up in Toronto, I didn’t get my driver’s license until I was 24.
- I wear a signet ring that has a phoenix on it. It was given to me by my paternal grandfather in 1989 when I turned 21. He mused that it was a crest that had been in our family since the 1300s, and was a common symbol that Christian crusaders adopted from their time wrecking havoc in the middle east.
- My first job for which I was paid was working in a cemetery. During high school I earned money lifeguarding, working at a self-serve gas station and selling tropical fish at AAA Aquarum on Yonge Street in the days before the big box pets stores did in the little guys. The owner of that shop died from AIDS-related pnuemonia in 1986. He was the first person I knew who had HIV.
- I was a teenage stamp collector.
- Although I have met many bloggers in my life after reading their blogs, Johnnie was the first one to offer me a safe harbour and a spare bed to crash on for a couple of days when I was travelling through London last summer. It was a generous gesture born out of a uniquely 21st century trust relationship. Out of gratitude for imposing on an otherwise perfectly good weekend of getting lost in WoW, I have responded to this tag…Thanks again, mate!
So that’s it. I’m leaving Regina tomorrow for Calgary and Seattle to do a little work with the Quinault Nation and catch up with Harrison Owen, who is breezing through town. To pass on the meme I’m tagging the last eight bloggers I’ve met face to face with: Tenneson, Ashley, Christie, Jeff, Andy, James, Nancy, and Andre.
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Ha, already been tagged. Hope to maybe see you here at HO confab!
http://www.fullcirc.com/wp/2007/12/20/8-things-you-dont-know-about-me/
Comment by Nancy white — February 1, 2008 #
when did you start with moleskine journals? i love em with the back pocket and the elastic band to seal it and the good quality paper.
Comment by jeff Aitken — February 1, 2008 #
Oh! I like knowing all the things you’ve shared here. And, okey dokey, I shall have to shake my own perimenopausal memory-like-a-sieve to find some interesting bits, & thanks for inviting me to play.
I expect you’ll already by on your way home by the time I get to Peggy’s house tomorrow afternoon to say hello to Harrison — but I like knowing that you’re here and that our molecular traces will overlap!
love, Christy
Comment by christy — February 1, 2008 #
oh please say hey to harrison for me, and we are all looking forward to an evening in the city of st. francis
Comment by jeff Aitken — February 2, 2008 #
I got in late Friday night to Seattle and had a lovely conversation with Harrison, Peggy, Neil and Sono. We told stories of bush pilots and northern living mostly, drank a little gin and bourbon and just enjoyed each other’s company.
Hope you had fun there today.
Comment by Chris Corrigan — February 2, 2008 #
It was fun to be with Harrison and all the other folks who gathered to buzz around him like the good bumbleflies that we are — and it was very fun to touch base with Sono! Though we were in email contact when we both were thinking about coming to the OsonOs by the Sea, and then when neither of us could go after all, I haven’t seen her in person for maybe 10 or is it 14 years. I am looking forward to having more time to talk with her next weekend at the “solidarity potluck” that Peggy is hosting.
Glad to know you’re cozy at home! love to you all.
Hey, Jeff! I am a moleskine fan too and make good use of that back treasure-holding pocket. I hesitated too long in getting their little red datebook this year though and they are all sold out for 2008.
Comment by christy — February 3, 2008 #