I am having trouble with focus and with follow through. I am studying piano--and I have difficulty focusing on one small detail and mastery of that detail at a time. I think I rely on short cuts, or doing something in my old way rather than the new ways my teacher has suggested I use. I think I don;t really beioeve I can learn or have the creative breakthrough she thinks I am capable of achieveing. I am also a writer--and am having problems with my writing fior the same basic reason--lack of good work habits--laziness and procrastination but really an underlying fear that I can't do it.

 I teach at unversity--and that is what I already enjoy doing.

 The horse

 For its grace, its power, its sense of wild freedom as it gallops across the plains like the wind.

 Probably the cat-for its independence, its elegance, its self-possession.

 Pressed duck from the Eiffel Tower

 Because I have never had it--and it is famous!

 Bernard Shaw; C S Lewis; Jackie Kennedy; Shakespeare; Virginia Woolf

 For their wit!

 Isphahan

 I have had too many--enough already!

 Diet Ginger Ale

 Coffee with french vanilla falvoured cream and 2 packets of sweet and low And I object to the banality of this question

 My wishes are all in my own poer and I would wish to achieve them on my own--to finish my novel, to be able to play Chopin and Bach flawlessly and to be able to run like the wind But a cottage at Lake of the woods would be nice--and enough money to allow me to be flamboyantly generous to the arts organizations in my city.

 Schubert's death and the maiden quartet; Beethoven's Pastoral Symphoney Bach's Well Tempered clavier played by Angela Hewitt

 I wish I could go for a run--or better yet for an extended bike ride--my overweight makes this difficult and unlikely.

 In Florida --watching the gulls rising and swooping at sunset in sheer joy as if wanting a few more moments of play while there was still light.

 Harriet Vane from the Dorthey Sayers books--intelligent writer!