# Rick — Bloom Intro Series

By [Bloom Collective](https://paragraph.com/@bloom-collective) · 2022-04-07

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**Where is home?**

Berlin. Sydney. Or wherever I’m with my son.

**What is the most beautiful object you own (or have owned)?**

A rose, hermetically-sealed in a display box/frame, saved from my mother’s funeral. And this knockout of a secretaire.

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**What is a DAO? Wrong answers only**

That last piece of naan bread that’s been halved and halved and halved, because everyone’s too polite to take the last bit.

**What do you admire most about the others in Bloom?**

The courage to be seen in toto. The generosity and grace to see others.

**What are you reading at the moment?**

Re-reading Isaac Babel, _Fictions_, and Bertrand Russell, _The Conquest of Happiness._

**What is your most overused emoji?**

❤️‍🔥

**What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?**

The flavour of acute depression consisting in agitated mind, catatonic body, dissolved soul.

**What is your greatest extravagance?**

I don’t know… which makes me want to revive a former Saturday ritual with housemates in New York — Chinatown day spa, facial and manicure, then Old Fashioneds at the Randolph.

**What's the last meme/reading/song you shared with Bloom?**

**Who are you?**

A happenstance, here for a while. A potpourri of wishes and wants. A dad. Working on belonging with Bloom, Medley, and the Mirror DAO.

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*Originally published on [Bloom Collective](https://paragraph.com/@bloom-collective/rick-bloom-intro-series)*