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Old times

yousillygoose — Mon, 23 May 2011 00:30:17 +0000

“Old times” never come back and I suppose it’s just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year, and that’s better. ~George E. Woodberry

yousillygoose — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 03:19:34 +0000

Hi folks, hope you’re all well. I just wanted to point you to my new photoblog called “People LOL.” You Silly Goose will remain active. I have just created a new blog as a project to compile pictures of people across the world laughing. I thought it would be fun and it sure has turned out to be. Please take a look, at peoplelol.wordpress.com

Cheers!

“Those who love Egypt should not sabotage Egypt!”

yousillygoose — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:58:40 +0000

Huffington Post (my reading addiction) is running a headline this morning titled “Back to the Streets,” regarding the current crisis in Egypt. “Those who love Egypt should not sabotage Egypt!” is just one of the many cries of protesters calling for President Hosni Mubarak to step down. It is humorous to me that the Egyptian cabinet is still being reassembled at the same time that these boisterous protests continue to occur in Cairo for a 5th day. Leave it to government to move at a snail’s pace. Below is the one of the images displayed for the article; it is particularly striking to me. I love how these protesters think they’re all that – sitting back, smoking with their smug expressions. The only thing missing from this picture is Snoop Dogg. Not to make light of the situation though. I certainly wish for peace for this country in the very, very near future lest citizens continue to be put at risk and Cairo continue to be looted and ransacked beyond recognition.

Sometimes

yousillygoose — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 14:04:25 +0000

Sometimes I feel blind
when I wear rose-colored glasses, but see all apathy
I wonder why the glasses don’t show me what I want to see.

Sometimes I feel different
when I’m sensitive to the indifference
I wonder why I care and they don’t, and why they don’t care that they don’t

Sometimes I feel wrought
when I knead the clay
I wonder why I can’t change the shape, or shape the change

Sometimes I feel stuck in the scholastics, the stochastics
when I have to be a school teacher
I wonder, can I teach them how to be human, or let the humans teach me

Sometimes I feel the symptoms, but they don’t afflict me, I’m still the same me
I see what I see, take Vitamin C, I change what I see
Sometimes they’re sick but I’m not infected, I’m healthy always
Even if I feel wrought, I’m right

At the beginning

yousillygoose — Sat, 25 Sep 2010 01:35:26 +0000

I am beginning to begin at the beginning.

I am beginning to learn what I have been taught.

I am beginning to hear what I have spoken.

I am beginning to sleep during my dreams.

I am beginning to wake in the morning.

I am beginning to dance to the music.

I am beginning to be awed by the beautiful.

I am beginning to befriend those I love.

I am beginning to calculate the solution.

I am beginning to attempt what has been achieved.

I am beginning to rise above what has been overcome.

I am beginning to smile at the friendly, and the unfriendly.

I am beginning to be liberated by the free.

I am beginning to begin at the end.

Poetry

yousillygoose — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:34:50 +0000

“Create the poetry of your life with toughness and determination.” -Deng Ming-Dao

Patience

yousillygoose — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 22:56:55 +0000

Patience is a virtue, but some things in life are simply not worth waiting for – waiting for a person to change is one of these. You can look at a person one hundred times and still not acknowledge who they are. Then one day you wake up and find that you finally know them very well, but they are not who you thought them to be, nor will they ever be. That acceptance is brutal, but necessary.

Someone just like you

yousillygoose — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 04:09:11 +0000

One of my favorite finds on Tumblr. Love the looseness, the casual style of the woman, the warm colors, the openness that expresses a depth of emotion, and the sky.

no matter WHAT HAPPENS

yousillygoose — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:44:10 +0000

Conclusions

yousillygoose — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 02:59:15 +0000

Another year is gone, and as I just about reach the close of my 22nd year of life, I reflect on how my life has taken form these past few years. I now have to admit to myself that I am a much more practical person than I was even two years ago. This was never my intention.

I still believe that all things are possible, still believe that I can concoct a goal for myself, and by nontraditional means, still somehow reach my aimed destination. I still don’t believe that traditional modes of success are the only modes of success. I still often find myself on the ‘road not taken’ as it were. I’m still an idealist, but now, I believe that an idealist can be pragmatic. Since joining a corporation, I have become more cognizant of two things primarily: money and human nature. That is, it is in nature of human beings and corporations to seek money, always more money than they have. I have also learned that people who would normally appear to be sane, civil people, can behave in extremely bizarre, unkind and unreasonable ways when affairs of money are concerned. This realization is perhaps somewhat belated.

When I was very young, in the middle school era, my uncle began his quest to convince me that I should go to medical school, as it was, in his view (which I wholly disagree with), the only occupation that could guarantee financial security. He asked, “When you get older, do you want to drive a nice car, or a regular car?” Knowing that the doctor path was not right for me, I quite assertively told him “A regular car!” Today my answer to him would still be the same, but, today I also have an appreciation for the security that money provides, which I did not have at that age. I now make decisions after assessing the risk and future gain.

However, I do not believe in an eternal quest for money. We have now all heard every tid bit of the Tiger Woods scandal. We all know that there is little correlation between having a great deal of money and leading a fulfilled life. But, I do believe that money and independence are closely interlinked, so money is attractive to me only in the sense that it can afford one time and means to do things one truly enjoys doing, rather than is forced to do. The greatest single thing I have learned this year is that one of the best things a person can have in life is control over his or her time – time to do things one enjoys, with people one enjoys. I do not want money to be at the forefront of my life.