Blogfest 2009

I’d like to be able to fly fast – then I wouldn’t ever have to get on a plane again!

Flying. Sometimes I have flying dreams when I sleep, and it’s amazingly cool. (It also gets me neatly away from the bad guys.)

Time shifting.  There is a basketball game back in high school I would like to play over.  And win.

I would love to go back and visit my ancestors, and to actually be able to live in their time for a short, definite period. So much of who we are and where we are is because of the decisions the people before us have made. I have a zillion questions in my mind about my origins – going further back than just the stories my parents can tell me. Besides – those stories, I’ve learned, are often mixed with a healthy dose of fiction. Usually, they are “revisionist” history. In other words, my parents’ or grandparents’ versions often include events the way the person telling the story wishes they had happened, or additional drama/comedy is thrown in to make the story more interesting. And I find that the women are always “the most beautiful woman of her time,” while the men are “exceedingly handsome and brave as a lion.”

I’d love to have X-Ray vision. Not that I’m so much interested in viewing people without their clothes, but can you imagine everything you could find? Buried a jar of quarters in your backyard? Found! Wondering what’s really buried out in the Sahara? Wonder no more! From helping police locate missing bodies, to excavating historical digs with just a peep. That would be one awesome super power to have.