House of Love

11 Questions – January 31, 2010

Posted on 31 January 2010

Sandra Ainslie Montiel, Executive Director of the AjA Project and our favorite Socialist,  is kind enough to offer her answers to the 11 Questions this week.

What fragrance provokes the most profound memory in you?

The scent of a mans shaving cream mixed in with the scent of coffee…while I’m half asleep in the morning…I don’t know if it provokes a memory but it is a scent that I associate with being in love.

What is your comfort food?

Pot roast with potatoes and carrots, like my mom used to make before she passed away and my beautiful friend Laura makes for me when I visit her. Also anything with potatoes in it: mashed potatoes, baked potatoes, potato chips, French fries…me and the potato have a thing going.

Of the six senses (ESP included) which is the strongest for you?

Touch. Touch is my love language.

What is your daily daydream?

I have so many! To be in Tunisia crossing the Sahara with my Bedouin guides when a band of Taureg sweep in, carry me off and make me their queen…fast forward…. I am still in the Sahara standing on a running horse while balancing a sword on my head and blue veils dancing in the wind…

If you found a hundred bucks on the sidewalk, what would you do with it?

I would pick it up, look around and if I didn’t see anyone looking for it I’d put it in my pocket. Then I would treat a friend to dinner. I wouldn’t feel bad about it at all. I would choose to think the universe wanted me to have it.

What is your existential bliss?

To be in a beautiful place, do a great yoga class, sit with a truly peaceful mind and have love all around…and then a glass of red wine.

What are you hopeful for?

I am hopeful that a meteor will land on Arnold Swarzenegger!

What is your greatest vice?

Red wine, red wine and red wine…oh yeah and still more red wine.

What is your greatest virtue?

Loyalty. I am fiercely loyal and devoted to those I love.

What do you want from life?

Love and laughter

Does Heaven Exist?

I believe in a higher plane of being…call it what you may; heaven, nirvana, enlightenment. I believe it is a place of calm acceptance and not one of judgment. That said I will be there; in a beautiful place, eating pot roast, drinking wine, with a lot of friends, loving, laughing and buying a round with the hundred bucks I found all while balancing a sword on my head!

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