What choices have you made, or have been made for you, that present reminders to you all the time? Are they the ones you expect to stare back at you?

What is worth giving up in order to be calm and happy?

If you think a poet might be in it for the love of their own voice, you might be right. Which borrowed “causes” do you find the most offensive for bad writers, politicians, and other public figures to take up?

Have you ever broken something you were creating, and made it more beautiful or interesting as a result? Have you ever known someone so broken but all the more painfully beautiful as a result?

I met a woman who had done this, and it is an image that has stayed with me.

Have you ever gone through something very wounding, and realized later that it helped make you who you are? Do you keep broken things?

One year, you are perfectly comfortable in a crowd, on a train, swimming in the ocean, walking under an open sky. One scar later, everything about crowds, trains, oceans, or skies is forever changed.