If You Build It…

Posted in: Forum, Irreverant Observations, Long Island, Social Networking | 37748Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37748If+You+Build+It...2010-08-29+01%3A53%3A55squirrelman

Would they come?

If you lead horses to the trough… would they fall in?

If you pass Go!… would you always receive $200?

If you could record the sound of one hand clapping… would you hear it?

If you type… does it make sense?

If you write…. does one read?

If you talk… does one listen?

If you hear…. do you listen?

If you listen… do you understand?

If our motives are paved with good intentions… is that good enough?

If you care… then why don’t we?

If we don’t… then should we care?

If we don’t care… what does that say about us?

If you care… do you always share?

If you share… do you share and share alike?

If we’re all alike… wouldn’t that make for a very boring world?

If you answer a question… does it presume someone asked?

Why can you prick your finger… but… umm, never mind.

So, why hasn’t everyone joined, and those that have joined, why haven’t they posted?

What if you don’t know what I’m taking about?  Well, you could click here!

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squirrelman @ August 28, 2010

Go Fish!

Posted in: Forum, NCAS, Squirrel, faith, fish | 37746Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37746Go+Fish%212010-08-11+01%3A11%3A31squirrelman

And we did.

And guess what?  We had fun.

Nothing ventured and surely nothing would be gained.  Venture, and abundance is inevitable.

So we cast our line as we cast our fate in to the depths of opportunity.  And what we catch remains to be seen, but is never not that which we should not receive.  What does this all mean?  I don’t know… But I won’t stop trying to find out and figure out.  Each casting reveals another clue.  Are we casting in the right spot?  Are we using the right bait?  Do we know what we’re trying to catch.  If we find it, how will we react?  How will it affect us, and in what direction do we tack?

Should we go where the winds and the current lead us?  Or, is there more to gain by going against the grain?  Is the grain there because it’s the road that’s right to travel, or is it just the easy path that everyone before has ventured?

And what about the fish?  Why do they bite?  What is their temptation and their motivation?  What are the fish trying to find?  Where are the fish?  Where is our Squirrel (umm, here of course… yet another blatant plug for the Squirrel Forum… simply trying to lure you all in to the depths of the Squrrel… OMG just click here.  Can’t see the link?  Here it is:  http://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi )

We are merely suggesting that to not take a dip in to the ocean or the sea (did I mention, speaking of the sea, that we also created the Nassau County Aquarium Society Forum?) is merely a drop in the ocean?  So what’s a person to do?  Simple…

Go fish!

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Tags: Aquarium, fish, Fishing, Squirrel

squirrelman @ August 10, 2010

Yeah Yeah

Posted in: Irreverant Observations, Personal Observations, faith | 37744Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37744Yeah+Yeah2010-08-07+01%3A33%3A10squirrelman

Yeah, I know it’s been a long time since last I blogged.

Yeah, I know you’ve been longing to read something new and exciting.

Yeah, I know that I’m being presumptuous… or at least a little hopeful.  Or demented.

Yeah, I know that writing is very therapeutic.  At least for me.

Yeah, I know that once I get started there’s no stopping me.

Yeah, I know that now you wish that you didn’t plant the seed in my head.

Yeah, I know that the best things in life are free, and

Yeah, I know that you’re wishing you could pay me not to write.

Yeah, I know that I could make your wishes come true.  And,

Yeah, I know that one day I will really run out of things to say, but

Yeah, I know that’s not likely to happen soon.  And,

Yeah, I know that it’s really never going to happen.  So,

Yeah, I know that the what we wish for can happen, and

Yeah, I know that which we dream about can come about, and

Yeah, I know that when we sleep… it makes me wonder.

Yeah, I wonder a lot.

Yeah, I wonder why we wonder.

Yeah, I wonder why we wonder why we wonder, and

Yeah, I sometimes get in to these infinite loops, and

Yeah, I wonder how I will ever get out of this place.

Yeah.

I know.

Will the world we seek be what we wished for, or is it just make believe?  And, how will we know the difference?

Yeah I wonder, yes I wonder, who’ll stop the insanity.  And, who knows right from wrong?  Which is the road to happiness?  And why isn’t it a beaten path?  Does this mean that know one knows the way.  It makes me wonder.

Yeah… Yeah… Yeah…

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Tags: Life, wonder, Yeah, Yeah Yeah

squirrelman @ August 6, 2010

It’s Only the Beginning

Posted in: Forum, Irreverant Observations, Life, Squirrel, faith | 37742Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37742It%27s+Only+the+Beginning2010-06-01+01%3A56%3A20squirrelman

Obviously, today is the first day of the rest of your life.  And mine too.  Go figure!

So what will tomorrow bring?  Some would argue, anything you like.  Kind of like that, don’t you?

But, we’re fresh.  Life is fresh.  It’s time.  It’s a new beginning.

Where did this year go to already?  How can tomorrow be June 1st?  Heck in some parts of the world it already is. That’s a pretty bizarre notion if you think about it.  My advice?  Don’t.  Unless you can make a futures bet based on what’s already happened in those parts of the world where it’s already June 1st.  But, that doesn’t sound fair.  I know, I know.  That’s what people have been telling me.  Life just isn’t fair.  I beg to differ.

All I do know, is that there’s a lot that I don’t know.  How do I know that?  Hmmmm.

But, I do know that the sun will come up tomorrow morning… And somewhere in the world it’s doing just that right now…. even if we can’t see it.  Whether it be to a total eclipse, or heavy cloud cover.

I say new day; New opportunity. What’s past is past.  What’s now is now… and now is just the beginning of what your future was a moment ago.

Here’s a question that was posed today that I couldn’t answer.  What’s the difference between a goal and a/your destiny?  Actually if memory serves me correctly I might have been the one that asked that question.  And, I don’t recall being satisfied by the answer that was given. Do you have an answer?  If you do, please either post a comment to this post, or start a new thread on the “Mystical” Board on the Squirrel Forum:  http://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=Mystical (You will have to register if you haven’t already done so.  It’s FREE to register  Do it now, and may that step be your new beginning to a whole new experience for you.

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squirrelman @ May 31, 2010

Around Me and Without Me

Posted in: Friends, Life, Relationships, faith | 37740Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37740Around+Me+and+Without+Me2010-05-27+17%3A37%3A36squirrelman

As the world turns so do we. Everything exists in me and around me.  Everything lives on their own volition and has its own energy.

Are we, and so therefore, am, because we exist?

Or, do we exist to be?

So much has changed… I feel like when I wake up I need to refer to a road map just to see where I am… what I’m supposed to do… and where I am supposed to go.

If today is Thursday, this must be my day off.  This week.  What will next week bring?  A different place.  Different circumstances.  Different issues.  But different opportunities.  Opportunities that are welcomed and embraced.  I better embrace them.  I need a place to make these notes and place annotations on my road map.

Interesting, isn’t it, that the road map just shows where we have been.  But does it?

I have to remember to remember that we can chart the course we sail… and rough seas are all apart of the journey… and (perhaps?) half the thrill… especially once we reach the shore on the other side.

But, getting back to the title of this blog, do you ever see the world going on around you, and it seems like life is going on without you?  I do sometimes.  How does one get in the flow?  That’s the strange thing about currents in the river… they’re very powerful and can carry things that are caught up in them for great distances with very little effort.  Yet, at the same time, they repel things that approach them.  I suppose that it means that to live you have to exert some effort, but yourself not only out there, but willing to take the risk of rejection.  It can be frightful if we’ve tried before and been rebuffed by the currents and flow of life.

Perhaps we need a paradigm shift.  Instead of trying to burst through the wall of resistance, we can find an easier, less traveled (or perhaps it only seems less traveled because we haven’t notices that pathway before) entrance.  Either under or transported in to the flow.  Under sounds a little scary (one can drown going deep under water)… but what about the alternative?  Transported directly in to the circle of life.  How does one do that?  With connections.  It is important to know who you know.  Those in the “know” can get you in the door and in to the flow so easily and effortlessly.

Feel like you’re out of the know?  Time to get in to the know.  Get out there.  Be with people.  Put it out to the universe what your goals, dreams, aspirations, hopes, desires, and more, are. And the Universe will open a path for you.  And when the road appears, take it.

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Tags: connections, Fear, hope, Life, Philosophy, Travel

squirrelman @ May 27, 2010

Whatever Happened?

Posted in: Blogs, Irreverant Observations | 37738Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37738Whatever+Happened%3F2010-04-17+00%3A58%3A36squirrelman

Whatever happened when blog titles just popped in to my head, and writing the blog was so easy?  It used to be that the words would just flow.  But, now the thoughts pop in to my head, but they don’t make it to the blog, much less that piece of paper I vowed to keep on my person at all times so that I could jot down all the fabulous ideas that came to me.

Perhaps I need to get one of those little netbooks, so I could kill two birds with one stone.  Small enough to almost fit in your pocket, and yet if the thoughts are there I’d be virtually online and would be blogging in real time.  Can you imagine if this blog was just a revelation of all the thoughts that were in my head.  Umm, wait.  Twitter beat me to that.  And now we got to read everyone’s thoughts in real time, in 140 character snippets.

At least I get to write over a 140 words… and typically twice as much.  Though the gist of what I’m writing could probably be better packaged in to a maximum of 140 characters.  Apparently I just like to ramble on and on and on.  Kind of like that run-on sentence that I just typed.  Or, this run-on paragraph, and the run-on post.

But hey, you’re reading…. At least I can imagine that you are, and pretend that people really care about what I’m writing.  Umm, I better come up with something very profound very quickly, or you’ll just click on one of the other links on my page (please… pretty please, make it one of my banner ads ).

So whatever did happen to the simpler times… the simpler way of life.  Where… umm… never mind.  I value indoor plumbing much to highly to think of any other way.

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• The River Runs Dry Which is hard to imagine considering all the rain that we got yesterday afternoon and in to the evening.  But, in this case I'm referring to my creative train of thought.  I was going on a few days there without posting a blog entry.  Lest everyone abandon ship I told......

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Tags: Blogging, reminiscing, simple, Twitter

squirrelman @ April 16, 2010

One Week (and a few days)…

Posted in: Irreverant Observations, Life, faith | 37736Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37736One+Week+%28and+a+few+days%29...2010-04-14+02%3A17%3A08squirrelman

Since…

• I knew where the bathroom was
• I knew where the dishes were
• I knew where roads led without thinking about them
• I knew where all my clothes were
• I knew where everything was
• I felt at home

But, time will heal all wounds… it will breed familiarity (but not contempt).  But will time bring the answers that have been sought?  Is the road to enlightenment just over the horizon?  How will I know when I realize I have found what I’m looking for?

Is one week enough time?  Clearly not.  But, how does one find the light?  There are lights shining all over. Which is fools gold, and which lights the path to salvation?

Can one be saved if one is lost?  Can one be lost if they realize they’re lost?  Can we lost what we don’t have?  Do we know what we want when we don’t know what we seek?

It’s easy to find fault… when we don’t have an idealized vision.

It’s easy to blame… when we are ignorant.

It’s easy to be ignorant when we don’t know the questions to ask.

But, if we know that we don’t know, isn’t that far better than those that think that they know everything?

It’s complicated, to say the least.  Or, is it really simple, and we complicate things?

Can things be too obvious, that we can’t accept things just as they are?

Does every question have an answer?  Surely there can be more than one answer to any question.  Why do things have to be so difficult?

If the answer my friend, is blowing in the wind, then why weren’t we given a net when we were born?

I need to start answering these questions… before I think or more.

Don’t you think?

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Tags: answers, contemplations, Philosophy, questions

squirrelman @ April 13, 2010

What’s Your Website Worth?

Posted in: Get Paid, Internet, Marketing, e-commerce | 37729Commentshttp://www.wheresoursquirrel.com/blogs/?p=37729What%27s+Your+Website+Worth%3F2010-04-13+14%3A08%3A00squirrelman

I found this cute (entertaining?  accurate??) little widget whilest perusing the Internet last night.  We ALL know that I’m trying to valuize, monetize, legitimize, and commercialize, my little webspace endeavor… especially since not enough people are clicking on the banner ads, and even less are actually making purchases, soooo, ummm, anyways, not to distract the true intent of this post (and especially since the last button that I had on this blog (which is still there for the time being) kept showing that this blog had ZERO value — STOP IT!), I found a widget that at least showed there was some value to my effort.

So, not only did I add it to my blog, but I thought I would blog about it too.  Perhaps the title of this blog would attract some readers too…. Which means I really need to get cranking on blogging again.

Without further ado, here’s the widget (click on the link below it to value your website and get a copy of the code to add to your website):

Your website value?

I’m not really looking to sell this blog.  I wouldn’t mind selling a few items from my banner ads, but that’s up to you.  I searched high and low to find the most reputable website’s to link to that offer the best services and lowest prices.  Heck, I do most my shopping from those sites too.  If only I had money to spend

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Tags: Blog, Business, e-commerce, Marketing, value

squirrelman @ April 13, 2010