Comments on: Who are you people?

By: jessie

jessie — Sat, 14 May 2005 06:03:00 +0000

i’m jessie. i’m from a leetle town in the midwest, but i’m moving to j’lem in a month (!) to study at Pardes. I was rocked by East of Eden; that’s the first book I remember being absolutely shell-shocked by. Before I die I’d like to be able to keep a nice clean house. (Really. Lame but true.)

By: Annw

Annw — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:09:00 +0000

Hello! Ann here from warm North Dakota! 16 is a long time ago - but I remember a youth team visiting our little Catholic church to share some great news. I discovered the Bible then and it really impacted me. Boring to some, maybe - but definately eternal for me Before I die, hope to see my kids grow up (9, 6 and 10 mos) successful, happy, and positively impacting their world. Oh, and Drug Free!!

By: Naomi Chana

Naomi Chana — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:23:00 +0000

I’m Naomi. I’m from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, which is not at all where I’m living now, but I think you know both that and my non-Hebrew name. When I was 16… let’s see, senior year of HS. That’d be the umpteenth rereading of Dorothy L. Sayers’s Gaudy Night (which I remember as being the only novel I took with me to Europe the summer before I turned 17).

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:38:00 +0000

Aw, you know KS is in da house… but I’ll answer too.

Living in San Francisco for 10 years now, grew up mostly in Tulsa, OK with every-other-Summer spent in Australia (Brisbane + Melbourne).

What book rocked my world at 16… Somewhere about that time I took my first poetry class and found Alice Walker’s “Goodnight Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning” and also “Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful.” What an epiphany - you can write beautiful, meaningful poems about everyday things and (wow!) poems don’t have to rhyme.

The BID to-do list… visit West Africa, go hang-gliding, pay off my student loans.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 15 Oct 2004 04:46:00 +0000

Ok, so
1)I am from Saskatchewan, Canada
2)Two books that rocked my world when I was 16 were ‘Poems’ by G.K. Chesterton, and ‘The Journey of Desire’ by John Eldredge.
3)I want to go canoeing more before I die. I can’t think of a more idealistic death than to die with a canoe paddle in hand. Of course, in reality that would probably mean dying by drowning or being bashed against rocks…but that’s part of the adventure!

By: B

Wed, 13 Oct 2004 10:15:00 +0000

Yeah, and one more thing: Before I die, I wanna’ save the monkeys. Like “Save the Whales,” only way better, ’cause monkeys are cute, a lot more like us than whales and they fling their own poo.

Flinging poo.

It’s classy for the animal kingdom.

Really.

By: Talmida

Talmida — Wed, 13 Oct 2004 04:27:00 +0000

1)I’m from Alberta, Canada.

2)When I was 16?! Too long ago…I forget. Favorite books now? Barry Hughart’s Bridge of Birds and William Goldman’s The Princess Bride. Oh yeah and all of Patrick O’Brian’s stuff…..and all Dorothy Sayers’ and anything by Charles de Lint…you see where this is going, dont you? I’ll just stop.

3)To do before I die? See Paris again? Visit Jerusalem? NO! Meet Simon!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 12:25:00 +0000

i’m gila. from omaha, from the twin cities, from los angeles, i guess…

the book–which always and ever rocks my world–is leaving home, by garrison keillor…to the point that it formed a huge part of my philosophy paper for rabbi dorff.

i want to play the lead in a musical. a big, fancy, professionally-costumed musical. yeah.

By: Danya

Danya — Tue, 12 Oct 2004 04:10:00 +0000

Oh, B hon, I didn’t mean to put no smackdown, just to “affirm” that you rock harder than a stadium full of AC/DC fans, even right now as we speak. That is all.

By: B

Tue, 12 Oct 2004 03:23:00 +0000

OK, the blog boss put the smack-down on my last thing, so …

Before I die … before I die … goodness, I can’t think of anything.

Before I die, I want to record an album.

Yeah.

Hellzyeah.