4.13.2012

God waits to win back his own flowers as gifts from man's hands

April 13: eldritch
I've experienced a few eldritch coincidences lately, though it's easy enough to pretend they're nothing rather than feeling the whisper of fate at my back.

  • You have received the ugliest sweater ever made. What do you do with it?
    give it to The Mumbler, probably, because it reminds me of the first casual conversation we ever shared—which was not very casual after all.
  • Your Aunt Mabel gave you a $25 gift card to coffee joint that is far away from your home. Do you regift it?
    it depends. I'm not above driving all over creation just for the Hell of it, so 'just for the Hell of it' plus free tea at the end could be even better.
  • Your sister-in-law sent you a gift card to a store that isn't in your town or online. What do you do with it?
    I'd probably kill it with fire, since I don't have a sister-in-law.
  • What is the oddest gift you have ever received from someone?
    surely something from my former spouse's parents. They had Awful. Taste. in gifts.
  • What did you do with it?
    threw it away or gave it away, I'm sure, shortly after returning from their house—and with my spouse's complete agreement. He did the same thing with the gifts that they gave to him!
  • Did you ever wear a sweater, or something else, that was given to you just because of the person who gave it to you and not because you liked it?
    no; that sort of pity doesn't help anyone. If there isn't a way to gracefully be honest about my feelings about the item, I would just quietly make it go away.
  • What was the best gift you got this holiday season?
    some of the best gifts I've received lately:
    • the entire set of sparkly Muppets nail polish
    • Kindle
    • some DVDs that I really wanted but wouldn't have pulled the trigger on getting for myself
    • a bottle of Jeremiah Weed
    • tiny glass bovine
    • Lego Yoda!
    • a pocketful of rocks
  • What was the 'most regiftable' gift you received this year?
    I don't think I've shuffled anything along lately. I'm both lucky and blessed.
  • Did you keep anything that you had actually purchased with the intent of giving it to someone else?
    once or twice in my life, yes. (And, notoriously and openly, Nick held off breaking up with me until the 'waiting period' after his birthday had lapsed so that he didn't need to give back the really terrific gift I'd given him. He literally asked if he could keep it. I should have refused. I think that's #3 in the list of Reasons Why I Do Not Date.)
  • If you could give me one gift, what would it be?
    The Brothers K by David James Duncan, if you are any sort of reader at all. It's my one go-to.
  • What is the one gift that I can give to you?
    a small plant, jewelry (though my taste runs toward the expensive), books (check out my LibraryThing to see what I already own), or music (an iTunes gift card or mix CD would be perfect)
[from The Cat, who got it here; the title quotation is by Rabindranath Tagore, from Stray Birds]

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