Day 5: Ian Halperin
What do you do for a living?
I’m a professional saxophone player, a #1 New York Times best selling author, an award winning filmmaker, and an international poet.
What do you do to feel alive?
I stare at the water. I look at the sky and try to interpret the designs in the clouds. I count the grains of sand on the beach. I do nothing.
A lesson you learned from your mother:
Treat everyone with respect and to write fucking good poetry.
A lesson you learned from your father:
Only hate hatred and not to live in fear.
What’s the most beautiful thing you saw today?
You
What’s one thing you wouldn’t want anyone to take away from you?
My life
What thought would you like to never have again?
I have no idea. I really live in the now. I don’t remember anything from yesterday and I really never look into the future.
If you could become an inanimate object what would it be?
A (Nintendo) Play Station joystick
When do you feel most loved?
When I’m with my daughter. That’s a no-brainer. I have an 11 year-old daughter. Her name’s Clover and the love is unconditional.
If your life were to end tomorrow what would be left undone?
zero regrets
What global issue would you take on if you didn’t have to worry about how?
Access to clean drinking water for every human being and ageism. I feel that society neglects people who are old and they deny all this wisdom that could be used to benefit the world.
What’s the scariest thing that ever happened to you?
I have no idea.