The question
What would you most want to leave your children?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
As little rubbish to sort through as possible.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 April 2024 source ↗
So it seems to be my responsibility, particularly to my children, also to my wife and friends, is not to be Pollyanna and pretend everything's okay no one would take me seriously if I said that but it's to be as present in their lives now as I can be so that in years to come, they don't feel either guilty or bad at my having been left out of their lives, that they feel still a very strong not a memory of particular actions but a memory of a complete family rather than a broken one. That seems to be something I can do or try to do.
A book of passwords for all the electrical stuff in the house.
Compassion, resourcefulness and resilience form a rounded good person. So that’s what I’d like to leave my children and grandchildren.
Slugs. And planetary annihilation.
Being a cocktail waitress and having to wear a compromising dress in an unwoke 1990s world.
Through rose-tinted spectacles.
Having a family and still loving each other.
People who abuse their power to subjugate others.
This year, I was asked to be a judge for the Women’s prize for fiction and I’ve read 75 books in six months, so I’m parking shame for the time being.
Dervla Kirwan, Dawn O’Porter, Bear Grylls, Billy Crudup, Gregory Porter, Ali Abbasi
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