Ok Jerm., here's one. The other will have to wait.

If I were a stone, I would be: smooth and round, at a lake shore; the kind that begs to be skipped out over the water.

If I were a tree, I would be: silver birch

If I were a bird, I would be: a raven; I would be the one that Poe wrote about.

If I were a flower/plant, I would be: that stubborn dandelion growing in the sidewalk crack.

If I were a kind of weather, I would be: dark grey, overcast, steady rain; those melancholy days.

If I were a mythical creature, I would be: the Lady of the Lake

If I were a musical instrument, I would be: the lute of a travelling bard.

If I were an animal, I would be: a wolf

If I were a colour, I would be: that copper colour found in the fur of calico cats.

If I were an emotion, I would be: that bittersweet homesickness that comes with nostalgia; that feeling of knowing you can never go back again.

If I were a vegetable, I would be: a jalapeno pepper

If I were a fruit, I would be: the apple that got Newton thinking.

If I were a sound, I would be: that soft scrunching sound of walking through the forest after a rain fall.

If I were an Element, I would be: of surprise? heh.. um.. I would be Hg. (that's mercury - who could resist being known as quicksilver?)

If I were a song, I would be: Bach's Sicilienne from Sonata in E Flat Major for Flute and Harpsichord.. simple, but one of those tunes just always out of reach when you want to hum it.

If I were to trade places with another person, it would be: Bill Gates - with his money, the good that could be done is overwhelming.

If I were a movie, I would be: a documentary.. probably with subtitles.

If I were a novel, I would be: an unpublished original by a first time author.

If I were a play, I would be: something performed by children in the Globe when Shakespeare wasn't looking.

If I were a poem, I would be: obscure, probably by Cohen.

If I were a place, I would be: the cool, dark hollow underneath my grandmother's pink rose bushes.

If I were a material, I would be: material? like fabric or building? whatever. I say chambray.

If I were a taste, I would be: dark roast coffee.

If I were a religion, I would be: private, contemplative and constant between believer and god.

If I were a word, I would be: whispered.

If I were an object, I would be: a spatula.

If I were a body part I would be: that hollow between neck and collar bone.

If I were a facial expression I would be: a smirk and a wink.

If I were a subject in school I would be: history.

If I were a cartoon/comic book character, I would be: Betty Cooper.

If I were a shape I would be: the lemniscate of Bernoulli (fancy way of saying the mathematical symbol for infinity).

If I were a number I would be: the all important 0.

If I were a month I would be: October.

If I were a day of the week I would be: Friday

If I were a time of day I would be: either 4:35am or 11:52pm.. one of those very quiet, very alone times.

If I were a direction I would be: north by northwest.

If I were a sin I would be: Lust.

If I were a virtue I would be: Compassion.

If I were an historical figure I would be: Hypatia of Alexandria.

If I were a liquid I would be: there is, or used to be, on the mountain road leading up to Panorama ski resort, a small trickle of a waterfall that someone once had tied a tin cup beside. It was true glacier water. That's what I would want to be.

If I were a method of death I would be: expected, quick but painless.

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soundtrack: Jesse Cook - "Incantation"