Always Advent

Over at SciFiCatholic, D.G.D. Davidson has posted a meme that asks:

“Where would you most like to live for one week, one month, one year, and half your life? Explain why.”

His answers:
http://www.scificatholic.com/2008/02/meme-week-month-year-half-your-life.html

I thought this sounded fun, so I’ll play:

A Week

I’d like to spend a week in Petropavlovsk, Russia, because that’s where my adoptive son was born.

A Month

A Carthusian monastery (there are Carthusian monks and nuns, so I could stay with a group of nuns) because it would be a great extended retreat and it would get that monastic thing out of my system.

A Year

Tanzania. The first president of Tanzania, Julius Nyerere (1922-1999) was a devout Catholic whose cause for canonization has begun. Unlike many African countries, Tanzania is free of tribal strife and civil war, many believe due to Nyerere’s influence.

Half my life

Ireland. I’m half Irish and I’ve never even been to Ireland, but I would love to go “home” and spend many years there tramping across those fields and going to pubs and learning to play a tin whistle. All that.

Wanna play? Leave your answers in the comment box! I’ll share my children’s answers starting tomorrow. You can name real places, like I did, or imaginary places, like SciFiCatholic did, or a combination. Have fun!

What is a “meme,” you ask?

In the context of web logs / ‘blogs / blogging and other kinds of personal web sites it’s some kind of list of questions that you saw somewhere else and you decided to answer the questions. Then someone else sees them and does them and so on and so on. I generally consider these to be actual questions and not some multiple choice quizzes that determine some result at the end (what color you are most like, what cartoon character are you, what 80s movie are you).

More here:http://thedailymeme.com/what-is-a-meme/