Are you a goldfish or an electric eel?
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I have an Everest of pretty new pics I could post: tender blooming willow trees, flowers even I don't know the names of... but I won't, at least not today. It is after all expect the unexpected week. I wanted to illicit some head scratching. The quirky gold fish image is one I'd taken a few weeks back while shopping for cat food. A bank of aquariums lined one wall and one fat gold fish seemed as curious about me as I was about him. It reminded me of the metaphor of living in a goldfish bowl and how awful it would be. It also reminded me of a quote by Dame Elizabeth Sitwell. "I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish." I know which one I am. What about you? Are you an goldfish or an electric eel?
I have an Everest of pretty new pics I could post: tender blooming willow trees, flowers even I don't know the names of... but I won't, at least not today. It is after all expect the unexpected week. I wanted to illicit some head scratching. The quirky gold fish image is one I'd taken a few weeks back while shopping for cat food. A bank of aquariums lined one wall and one fat gold fish seemed as curious about me as I was about him. It reminded me of the metaphor of living in a goldfish bowl and how awful it would be. It also reminded me of a quote by Dame Elizabeth Sitwell. "I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish." I know which one I am. What about you? Are you an goldfish or an electric eel?
Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 4/6/2010 10:09 AM 
Categories: Photography, Spirituality
Tags: Expect the unexpected goldfish or electric eel
Categories: Photography, Spirituality
Tags: Expect the unexpected goldfish or electric eel
I'm all eel, zap!
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Well, I am the cat who's going to eat the goldfish before the electric eel can buzz me to death.
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LOL, glad to see you thinking outside the box!
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We try. I invited Romeo to lunch today. Romeo is the neighbor's silver boy. He always pretends he's hungry and eats from everybody's driveway. I've fed him from my driveway, twice - yesterday with babyfood on the step. He entered the house yesterday, but skedaddled when MaoMao gave him the devil eye.
Today, Romeo walked in and even rubbed against me, but I picked him up carefully and let him out the stairs again, so he wouldn't hide under the furniture for hours, and I'd be left explaining to him Mama how much of an idiot I really am.
I try to be the box. Or to live outside the box, but out of the rain. Meow.
Didn't sleep at all last night. You can't tell, eh? Is it bed time yet?
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Yup, you're an electric eel alright. Now get those lightening fingers off the keyboard and rest... and dream of plot points...and...
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I believe that I am an eel. I will zap away most of the time. I will zap while being quiet about it. That was a great question. Have a great day.
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Fantastic photo! I love the juxtaposition of the goldfish and the hand. Something eerie, almost sinister, about it. Goldfish or eel, both are fine, as long as I have my own little section of the pond to swim in.
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Enjoy your swim as an electric eel today.
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why do I get the impression that photography is a hobby of yours? haha. Sorry, I never thought about it until you said you have a gigantic collection. Well, I think I'd like to be an electric eel sliding down from the top of mount everest. I'm not sure what that would look like, but i bet it's less boring than being a goldfish in an aquarium swimming in his own pee.
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Ryhen, you crack me up!
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