Given your experience and expertise in a given field, when would you like to have been born? My husband says a few decades earlier so he could have shaped the space program and NASA.
In my world, I help people solve problems and provide solutions so I could live anywhere, any time. I just ran into my neighbor, a retired architect, to tell him there was a full rainbow out there and he sent me photos of it.
I sent him a few of mine, with an eye toward architecture. When I was sixteen and caring for my much younger siblings in Florida on their vacation I met a man who’s daughter wanted to learn basic tumbling for gymnastics so I did that.
He said he thought about being a doctor or lawyer, but then he’d only work on problems. He became an architect because then he could deal with dreams.
I hold that thought in my heart many years later and if I had the talent to do so I’d have loved to invent French tracery windows or do a self-portrait as did Artemesia Gentilleschi. Yes, I saw the painting in the Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace. I’ve asked them to put it on tour, as women congregated around it, even in the past decade, because this woman was a painter in a man’s world and dared to make a self-portrait.
Assuming I’m a woman, but had access to “male” careers I’d rather change the subject. As a woman I’ve the right to change my mind….
We have six places at our dinner table. Who shall be invited to dine? I’ll think of mine if you think of yours. There are rainbows in the air tonight, Dee
Cooking with Dee 