All right. So, question number one, if you want doing this, as in the work that you do,
illustrations, art, and poetry, what else do you think you could be doing or would you see yourself
doing? I think either a surgeon or a geologist. Wow. Already very curious answers and I may come
back to that. Yeah, we can talk about this more. All right. Question number two, if you could live
anywhere in the world other than your current residency in Lisbon, where would you live?
Oh, this is hard because I was going to say Lisbon.
Or you could say Lisbon. Okay. I will say Lisbon. It was my dream to live here.
So, it's hard to think of a second spot. Yeah. And just quickly, why is that?
So many reasons. Okay. I think the main one is that I feel like I have lived here before in a
different life. Yeah. So, I was very curious about coming back and kind of reconnecting with my past
self in this life. Wow. Fascinating. All right. Question number three, where is the next place
you'd like to travel to? Bhutan. Bhutan. Question number four, changing the beat a little bit,
what's your favorite food? What type of cuisine? Oh, my mother's gyoza.
Oh. Yes. It's specifically shrimp and celery together. It's such a good combination.
Oh, wow. Yeah. All right. I'll have to ask indirectly through my wife and into your mother
the recipe for it. Yes. What's your favorite time of your day?
Lately, it's been in the evening. There are some beautiful lamps here in Lisbon that have this
really like golden yellow light. And I love walking, kind of meandering through the streets
at night time here in Lisbon. Oh, so these lamps are outside lamps? Yes. Yes. And they just produce
these gorgeous like golden yellow light. Oh, wow. And it feels very old-timey. So, I like it a lot.
Wow. Question number six, what's your favorite song or type of music?
Kind of similar to this night time feeling, but I really love anything romantic. So,
anything that makes me feel like, oh, like I'm wearing a fedora. Yeah. And there's like, you know,
I'm wearing a scarf and I'm on a small boat going through Venice or something. Anything that kind
of captures that vibe, I love. Okay. Question number seven, and this actually will be one of
the key questions that I want to ask. And I just want to touch upon this and then deeper into this
topic. What was the biggest turning point in your life? Oh, this is a hard one.
It might be when I met my partner, my husband, Julian. I think that might be it.
All right. How do you switch your mind when you are feeling down? Any kind of somatic experience,
like moving around, dancing, listening, like jamming out to music, going for a run? Yeah. I feel
like moving in some way, my physical body gets me and snaps me out of some of the fog.
Question number nine, and this is a simple question, but potentially a profound question.
What's your superpower? My superpower is to be able to see beauty in the smallest things,
or maybe some things that people might walk past or not think about every day. Yeah.
Last question of this lightning round. What is creativity to you?
Ooh, creativity. It's like sharing in this collective miracle that is life. I think that's
what creativity is. That was the lightning questions. Hope you enjoyed this segment as
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