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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 19: Derell Smith
What do you do for a living?
I’m a concierge at the Standard Hotel
What do you do to feel alive?
Sing, write poetry, dance
A lesson you learned from your mother:
To continue being the person that you are in spite of the outside effects that try to change you.
A lesson you learned from your father:
That everybody is different, but we all want the same things. The way we achieve or define them may be different, but not to judge.
What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?
My baby sister
What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?
My self respect
If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?
A camera
When do you feel most loved?
In the middle of an applause
If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?
Having children
What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?
Hunger
What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
Watching the movie “Candyman“