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With Genevieve S's encouragement, I am posting a variation on her post from this morning.
Imagine, if you will...
You have just been told that you will need to spend an extended period of time on a deserted island, alone. You will be given ample food, water and shelter but there will be no electricity.
You will be permitted to take one personal item with you.
What single item could you not do without?
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Well, as I stated in my comment to you in Genevieve's post, I'd like a journal and a pen, if those can count as one. They go so hand in hand with one another! But, if not... hm... Not my husband, as he's not my possession. Not my cat, as he'd just murder the island's birds and probably drown or eat poisonous berries or do something similarly fatal. So many of the things I value I could just find on any island... a stone on which to meditate, for instance, or a fire to gaze into. I could easily enough fashion a game or two to keep myself entertained (a backgammon board would be easy enough to devise). I'm assuming clothes are assumed as present, but, if not, then my hiking boots, except that's kinda two items. I suppose if it could be just one thing, I'd take a single collected volume of great literature.
Good question!
- Jacqueline
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"Ce qui fait la nuit en nous peut laisser en nous les étoiles." ~ V. Hugo
Journal and pen allowed...
...since what you are actually taking is a device to record your experiences. Hmmm...I like how I jumped right in and justified that for you.
I'd be torn as well, which is why I wanted to post this sort of question.
I'd be loathe to not take my tweezers, for aesthetic purposes. I hate if they are out of reach now!
I'd want my cell phone, assuming I could get a signal and still TXT with my kids, but I guess once the battery ran out it'd be worthless.
In the end I figured on a book, too. And, oddly enough, since I'm not normally that into it as a whole, I'd probably take the Bible with me. I figure it's long enough and entertaining enough to keep me occupied.
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The Begots...
Hm... see, I keep trying to read the Bible, and keep losing interest at 'the begots' in late Genesis... and before you tell me to skip them, let me just say that if I do, I'll never be able to say that I've read the whole Bible, so I always just start again at the beginning. *shrug* I mostly want to read it because a dear relative of mine who has now passed read it through many times. His favorite non-Biblical book was Ivanhoe, and even after a series of strokes he would cajole his wife into reading that one out loud to him, so I've tried that one as well but it also seems to also bore me to tears. Not sure why he was so into monotony...
But that's good. You bring that, I'll bring an anthology of literature, and we'll take turns reading around the campfire.
- Jacqueline
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"Ce qui fait la nuit en nous peut laisser en nous les étoiles." ~ V. Hugo
Ooh, this is a
Ooh, this is a toughie...
Probably my sketchbook and pencil. I don't go anywhere interesting without it...
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