Caroline’s Qs+As (Ed happy to be a lap but not an answerer)
Where do you feel silence? 
Sitting alone in quiet room when I take my hearing aids out. Utter peace!
Where do you wish you could be other than here? 
In a Land Rover with very few others riding across the Serengeti.
What’s something that would make your  life better?
Opera’s returning to NYC and to San Francisco.

Thomasin’s Qs+As
Where do you wish you could be other than here?
Brooklyn, just for a week or so.
What’s something that would make your life better?
The end of 45 and the GOP.
A favored quotation?
"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.”—John Lewis

Karen’s Qs+As
What’s stopping you?
Fear.
Where do you wish you could be other than here?
Hawai’i.
How well do you trust your intuition?
Pretty well.

Leslie’s Qs+As
Where do you feel silence? 
Swimming under water.  Sometimes at the Gallery!
How well do you trust your intuition?
More so as I age, thank goodness.
What is next?
A new grand-daughter!

Donald’s Qs+As
​What is nearby? 
Guitar.
What is the color you forgot?
Clear.
Forward or back? 
Inward and outward. 
Why don’t you want to go to that place? 
Let’s not go there.
What is next? 
Another question 
What is the sound you are hearing? 
Whirring fan.

Maria’s Qs+As
A favored quotation? 
From my grandmother Rosita Mendoza quoting her cousin: Todo no vale nada si el resto vale menos. (Everything is worth nothing if the rest is worth less.)
What is the color you forgot?
I always wear black so I don’t forget any colors.
How well do you trust your intuition?
My intuition is very strong when I am open and expect nothing. I think living in a different language/culture sharpens your intuition because you have to pause/stop the world from time to time.
Where would like to be other than here?
Writing on the terrace of that small house in Casares, Spain, 100 Calle Monte. (But I am happy here eating a tomato from the garden.)

Melanie’s Qs+As
Where do you feel silence?
On the swinging bench next to my driveway.
What’s stopping you?
Loads of information, confusion.
A favored quotation?
“It is in between the things I thought I was doing that the real work has happened." (William Kentridge)
Where do you wish you could be other than here?
I've never been so grateful to be just where I am.
How well do you trust your intuition?
I trust my intuition, but rarely recognize when it is at work.
What’s something that would make your life better?
I'd like to have better rhythm. 
Why don’t you want to go to that place?
Restless motion is addictive. 
What is the sound you are hearing?
My AC, struggling to keep up.

Larry’s Qs+As
A favored quotation?
“à chacun son goût”
What is next?
More aging.
Where do you wish you could be other than here?
A white sand, blue water beach.

Marcia’s Qs+As
Where do you feel silence?
I feel silence inside of myself.  
How well do you trust your intuition?
I do not trust my intuition because of an over-active imagination.
Where do you wish you could be other than here?
I wish that I could be on an Atlantic coast beach.

​Catherine's Q + As 
What’s the strangest thing?
Being still alive.
Forward or backward?
Forgetting sideways is always an option.
What is next?
Not expecting to define normal.
What is the sound you are hearing?
Tangible silence interspersed with bird, squirrel, and cat sounds.

Denver’s Qs+As
Where do you feel silence?
The hammock in the bamboo.
How well do you trust your intuition?
I can see the edge of possibilities sometimes.
What happened ten years ago?
I landed back in Chico.
What have you learned the hard way?
Law. People.

Andy’s Qs+As:
What's stopping you?
Walking on why and tripping over I don't know.
What happened ten years ago?
Hindsight.
What have you learned the hard way?
Self.

Ann’s Qs+As:
What is the color you forgot?
Beige. who needs it?
What’s something that would make your life better?
Black licorice ice cream.
Why don’t you want to go to that place?
Because it’s loud, and crowded, and smells.

Lola’s Qs+As
What’s stopping you?
My intuition.
How well do you trust your intuition?
Not very well.
What is nearby?
Bill Murray prayer candle.

​Mat’s Qs+As
Where do you feel silence?
The truest sense of silence i get is playing music. Pretty much the only time i can turn off the ole noggin and just relax.
What is the color you forget? 
Gold, seems every year i forget just how golden this valley gets. The moment i remember that is the moment i start wishing for green.
Forward or back?
Always a bit of both. Cant go forward if i forgot how i got there sorta thing.

Rob’s Qs+As
What is nearby?
The language of birds. Listen.
Why can’t you do it?
But I did do it. The problem is doing it again, and making it new.
  What is next? 
That which came before, which anticipates all that follows, but only after it has actually happened. We are only the stories we tell ourselves.

​Linda’s Qs+As
What is the color you forgot?
I forgot purple and I'm sorry and I won't let it happen again. 
How well do you trust your intuition?
I trust my instinct like a navigator trusts a compass.
Forward or back?
Since there are only two choices, I'm going with forward. But to be clear, I'm pretty much a here-and-now kind of human. I do love archival stuff, photos, journals, memories. I learn from the past. I am not a fan of regret. No point. I cannot change the past. I am an optimistic realistic idealist. I am not a check-the-days-off-the-calendar person. I've only got today. But you forced me to choose. So, forward. But not fast forward. Just a smidge forward at a time.