Always did like the number 5!

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[Tony D. Clark]

Rosa – Thanks for sharing these wonderful things with us. To me, it's the little stories that make up a person.

It's funny how names seem to fit people – based just on what you've known them as. I'd say you look much more like a Rosa than a Liann.

The dress in the picture is amazing, what a great talent. Buy yourself a new sewing machine for Christmas, you shouldn't let that talent lay idle :)

[Carolyn Manning]

Hi Rosa,

This is such a fun game! I just glanced at my sewing machine; it needs to be dusted.

Oh! You have the dubious distinction of being my first trackback/pingback at Wordpress.

Carolyn

[Phil Gerbyshak]

Wow Rosa, I didn't know about your full name before, and I wondered why I've seen Liann referenced with you in a few places. Very cool! Thanks for playing along.

[Rosa]

Thanks Tony; I do need to get more sewing time in before the eyesight gets any worse! My mom had sent me to learn it from the Japanese ladies at the Hongwanji Hall during my summers, and I was most grateful she did with each Halloween costume my kids wanted but couldn't be bought. My best creation was my daughter's green corduroy stegosaurus.

Carolyn, I love that distinction! Quite cool, however I am sure I'm but the first of many, many more to come for you.

Phil, I think the only place I've used the Liann in a random impulse was with my Technorati profile ... if you've seen it anywhere else it's not me!

[Dan]

Okay, Rosa, this is definitely a challenge of the first order. I'll start working on it! And as to the philosophy, it's pretty simple. You can't trust and collaborate with people you don't know. As in the first verse of Bill Stafford's poem, A Ritual to Read to Each Other:

If you don't know the kind of person I am
and I don't know the kind of person you are
a pattern that others made may prevail in the world
and following the wrong god home we may miss our star.

This great game of tag is just to ask, "Who are you really that I'm tagging? Please tell me!"

Best to you ... and thanks (I think!?)
Dan

[Rosa]

My goodness, this game has reaped such bounty!

Dan, when you accept a challenge you do it magnificently. I love the poem you share here and your post is pure wonder - you are a storyteller extraordinaire! Ho‘ohana Community, read what Dan has written here:
http://www.unfoldingleadership.com/blog/?p=91

When we were young I remember playing tag all the time, but it took blogging for this delight to happen with being "it."

[Pete Aldin]

Rosa so sorry to hear about your first husband ... and so glad to hear about your second! (Hope that makes sense)

This is a really interesting meme. Thanks for inviting me to play. Hope you get that sewing machine! My mother-in-law is a keen & incredibly talented seamstress too. It's a valuable and disappearing art.

[Rosa]

Thank you Pete. My heart went out to you and Janine in reading your story about your son (within your 5x5 post). Yet we must believe in the higher calling our loved ones get when they must leave us, and I am glad to know you feel closure is near.
http://www.greatcircle.com.au/2006/12/09/5-x-5-ive-been-tagged/

This meme has been interesting, hasn’t it? Funny; I hadn’t thought about my sewing for a very long time, and today I did some quick work on my old one – quite prehistoric compared to the new offerings one can buy, but it did the trick!

[Maria Palma]

Rosa!

Thanks for tagging me ;) This game is much fun, eh? I'm learning so much about other people and realizing just how small our world really is! My post is here (I was tagged earlier this week already!)..
http://salondemaria.blogspot.com/2006/12/game-of-tag-im-it.html

[Rebecca Thomas]

It took some serious thought (and conversation with a coworker who is like a second mother to me) to come up with mine.

I think the very first part of mine explains why this meme is so challenging.

Thank you for tagging me!

[Rosa]

Aloha Maria and Rebecca, and thank you for playing. I love discovering these wonderful interests I did not know you had up until now, and yet more intrigue remains - for what we've all shared is just the tip of the iceberg; we have so much more sharing to do! Over time it will happen, and that is a sweet thought indeed.