Ten Questions to Ask X (or Someone Similar to X)

1. Have you ever cut your own hair in anger?
2. Would you be upset if, in the next ten-thousand years, natural forces whittled Florida down to a narrow path leading out into the aquamarine ocean?
3. Given that our home is so near the Great Divide, do your prefer your rivers flowing to the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic Ocean? Note: for this question please ignore Triple Divide Peak in Glacier National Park, Montana, which sheds water to the Pacific, Atlantic, as well a Hudson Bay by way of Canada.
4. Have you ever held a dead songbird in your hand?
5. If, in a friend’s home, you chanced upon a painting hanging crooked on the wall, would you attempt to nudge the frame plumb again?
6. Do you believe that our species invented mathematics or is this something we discovered?
7. Will you continue to read books made of paper?
8. Have you ever stopped while hiking in a remote forest and made love in a cross-sunlight place with boulders and trees all around you?
9. Is there anyone you do not agree with politically and socially, but still admire?
10. Do you like the smell wood burning in an open fire?

--Mitchell Hegman