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Issue No. 7 QUESTIONS
For the Questions issue we are turning our focus from the outside world and bringing it inward. Each day for 100 days we will step out into the world and meet with one person. We will ask each person we meet the same 12 questions. At the end of 100 days we hope to capture our collective voice within this interwoven web of dialog.
Day 18: Camryn Halley
What do you do for a living?
I’m a fifth grade student.
What do you do to feel alive?
Ride
A lesson you learned from your mother:
To never rush anything and that things happen for a reason
A lesson you learned from your father:
To always work hard at whatever you want to do and he always says “Don’t get too high, don’t get too low, always stay steady in the middle.”
What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?
My pony Cody this morning
What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?
Being able to ride
What thought would you like to never have again?
That I wasn’t good enough
If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?
I don’t think there’s any man-made object I could become that could make we feel like I was still living out my purpose
When do you feel most loved?
When I’m with horses
If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?
Everything!
What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?
I would stop the clearing of land. Animals live in those natural spaces and especially in places like the rainforest they are becoming extinct.
What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
My mom was teaching a riding lesson one day while I was also riding in the ring. All of a sudden she had a serious look on her face and said she had to leave. She left right in the middle of her lesson. I didn’t know where she was going, but I knew something bad had happened. It ended up being something with my great grandmother. She died a few days later, which was really sad, but the look on my mom’s face really scared me that day.