Regret: I’m not big on regret but that’s a lousy response to the question so I’ll say this: That it took me so long to figure out there’s nothing wrong with me and I can do and be and love anything I want.
Sometimes I think the reason I like coming of age stories so much is that I spent so much of my life doing it.
Pride: That I did ok with my kids.
I think every parent thinks this and every kid knows how much their parents screwed them up, but I tried to listen and I tried to teach, I tried to protect them, I tried to expose them, I tried to guide them and I tried to set them free. I tried to model the right things and I definitely learned every day. And I always always always loved them. I like to think I did ok.
Dream: To some day say what I really mean convincingly. About things that are important to me. In a lasting way. Authentically.
It’s hard you know. Snippets maybe but how do you say it all and not get it wrong?
Fantasy: To sit down to lunch with Terry Zwigoff and ask him if Enid in Ghost World stole those sunglasses from the Sidewinder.
This is just something I need to know.
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This post is archived from my account on li.st, a social media app that shut down in 2017. Some posts have been edited slightly to fix typographical errors and correctly represent the gender of some individuals. You can view the full archive here.