Linville M. Meadows' interview

​1: Describe your “average” day. What are your rituals/routines?
 
2 cups of coffee before I get out of bed
Share breakfast with my wife
Prayer and meditation, mindfulness
Write blogs/book
Play guitar
Feed the animals; walk the farm.
Photography:  Photoshop images for web; cyanotype; designed Holiday cards;
Share reading with my wife: Dickens
Nap
Share tv with wife
Go to bed together
 
If it’s not fun I don’t’ do it.  If its’ not fun, I find a way to make it fun.  Decisions have no wrong answers, only good ones. I don’t have to do something, like carry out the garbage, now I GET to do something.
 
What is your favorite book? (Why is it your favorite?)
Like asking which of my kids is my favorite.
Today, it’s Collected Stories of Arthur C. Clarke
Yesterday it was Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol
Day before, James Baldwin’s Go Tell it on the Mountain
Dhammapada of The Buddha
Sermon on the Mount, Emmet Fox
 
All-time favs
Hamlet
Ulysses by James Joyce
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
The Bible
 
3: If you had to move and could only take 3 things with you, what would they be?
            My wife
            My puppy
            My guitar
            Complete Shakespeare/The Bible
           
 
4: If your closest friend wrote a book about your life, what would the title be?
Boot camp for the Soul
A madman, a poet, and a freak   

Lin