Filling out this Proust Questionnaire. I try to be in the moment.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 June 2022 source ↗
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What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
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View all 158 →Making a gourmet dinner with my husband, Tom, then just hanging out with our four children, their spouses, and our delightful grandchildren.
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Lying in one of two twin hammocks on an English lawn in June. A glass of something cool and vinous is balanced on my tummy. A speaker hanging above the tree plays Glenn Gould. A Wodehouse novel is spread-eagled on my chest. I will pick it up in a moment. Oh, the other hammock is occupied by my beloved husband.
A verdant landscape filled with beautiful animals of all kinds, harp music, cumulus clouds in a bright-blue sky, and happy people conversing pleasantly, sipping cold sake from homemade bamboo cups.
Floating on my back in the ocean.
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View profile →My partner, who’s helping me with this Proust Questionnaire.
Being onstage and forgetting why I’m there.
That they’re my friends. I trust them and they trust me.
In my sleep, “dreaming android dreams of electric sheep.”
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