Windspeaker Confidential: Gil Cardinal

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Windspeaker: What one quality do you most value in a friend?

Gil Cardinal: Well, I think spirit. You know, just a good caring, kind spirit.

W: What is it that really makes you mad?

GC: I don't get mad. No, I don't know...What makes me mad? I don't know. When my cats kill birds and mice? That's the best I can do.

W: When are you happiest?

GC: Just when I'm being quiet; moments of quiet when I tune in or try to tune in to all of the things I have to be grateful for.

W: What one word best describes you when you are at your worst?

GC: Princess.

W: What one person do you most admire and why?

GC: I can't pick one person. I think, you know, all of the people that I come in contact with through my work, the people I work with, luckily are all very, very caring people, about what we're doing together. There's always a very good spirit among us and between us. So I would say, as a group, it would be the colleagues, the people that I work with, or the people that I work with when making a film and telling their story, you know, community people. Because of the sharing, the sharing and the caring. So I guess I would just have to say that, as a group, the people I work with.

W: What is the most difficult thing you've ever had to do?

GC: Quit smoking! Right now!

W: What is your greatest accomplishment?

GC: I think learning to be grateful for the gifts and blessings of my life. I think that's something I've been working at. And I'm very glad when I can tune in to that and feel that.

W: What one goal remains out of reach?

GC: I guess the work that remains to be done.

W: If you couldn't do what you're doing today, what would you be doing?

GC: I'd want to be a rock and roll singer.

W: What is the best piece of advice you've ever received?

GC: Keep your powder dry, I guess. Go slow.

W: Did you take it?

GC: Oh yeah. Well, I mean, not so specifically, but just as a general kind of approach.

W: How do you hope to be remembered?

GC: As somebody who cared.