The question
What accomplishment matters most to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Chekhov said, any idiot can weather a crisis, it’s the day-to-day living that wears you out. I think the same is true for great achievements. It’s not a big thing, but one ought to feel proud about the small moments in which you might have helped, cared for, or done something good for others.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 13 February 2021 source ↗
Still being in work. And my vineyards; they’re beautiful.
My children obviously, but also my work.
Paying my rent and being able to support my family from making music.
Remembering to do things in order, because I have to transcend my nature, which is haphazard.
I don’t know. I prefer it that way.
Today, waking up in the dark hours of the morning with a litter of puppies snoozing on my bed.
That to-do list I am supposed to get through but can’t summon the energy for in these weird, distracted times.
We don’t play songs at funerals where I’m from, but if they had to – Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean.
Ethan Hawke, Neil Gaiman, Cressida Cowell, Tim Rice, Ralf Little, Armistead Maupin
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