Stray Poetry

    Again, in my quest for organization, I have bought a Wenger Saturn messenger bag to keep the items I don’t normally carry in. I like to have them handy and able to be taken in a moments notice.

I will carry my Internet work in this bag, I keep an mm20 in my backpack, and I will get a larger notebook for this one, when designing, It is useful to have a larger wide screen display.

Also, the styling matches my Synergy backpack.

  For most of my life, I have suffered from faulty memory and a tendency to be scatter brained. I try to minimise its effects on my work, and fight to remain lucid, but I often fear it is hopeless. My genetics play a role, I am sure, but I think that a large part of this problem is due to my nature of being interested in too many things, I find that my mind wanders all the time, I am always thinking about something other than what I am doing.

  When I am working and not actually concentrating on what I am doing, I won’t imprint the memory from short-term to long-term, and that possibly is the reason that I can’t remember yesterday. however there is more to it than just lack of concentration; i also lose track of my mental path. I will be doing something that I know well, that is burned into my brain, and suddenly I will blank out completely. I drop all recollection of where I am in the process that should be second nature to me. This is rather frightening at times, and has pushed me to consider that I may be headed toward eventual dementia…

 
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  Today has been wet, gloomy and sullen. I wonder why the weather is so closely tied with our emotions, why do we feel up when the sun shines and down when it does not?

  Is it a throwback to a time when we worked outside everyday, and an office cubicle was no-where to be found? Or is it more than that, is it an association to the sun and when it burns brightly and warms our skin, it also warms the heart….

  For me, I respect the stormy skies, if it were not for the rain, would we appreciate the sun? Now that winter is bearing down on northwestern Pennsylvania, and the fall leaves are no more, there is silent inevitibility of the coming of the white snow, and even that which often I dread, is a pleasant expectation.

-Ezra Hilyer

“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.” –Austin Dobson

Probably more has been written on the subject of ‘love’ than any other subject in life, more poets find inspiration with the lack or loss of love than by any other human emotion. Why is this quote so striking?

Love does creep upon us unseen, even the ‘love at first sight’ experiences are just that; a surprise. When loves comes slowly, it creeps up on us while we are unaware, it builds in the subconscious by bits and pieces until it is finally too powerful to ignore. When one is on the receiving end of love (or imagined love), few see it coming. Suddenly we are overwhelmed.

Love on its way out is indelibly visible and painful. To lose that place in the heart of another is ultimate betrayal; a ripping of souls; a shattering of the silken bonds of two spirits. To lose your love for another slowly is a series of small rationalizations, a pulling away and cutting threads one at a time.

Like a landslide, it starts small and soon the weight of emotion slips completely from its hold, and rushes downward with powerful force ripping away everything and all things in its path. Leaving merely a pile of rubble where once was a shining castle.

-Ezra Hilyer

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) once said:

“Imagination is more important than knowledge”

At first, this quote sounds a little quaint and assuming; as though a vivid imagination is all that is necessary to succeed. Were this true, it would be welcome relief for all the worried parents of starry eyed oblivious school children.

Imagination is valueless without some knowledge; this is self-evident: How can any fancy begin without a place to start, and experienced life to base an idea upon. Those who have wild imaginations more often than not are also those who ‘know’ many things.

Knowledge in it’s base form is simply what you can regurgitate from a book, however couple that with some imagination, and one can cease to walk only the path that has been pre-prescribed for him, and can instead wander at will in the felds of the mind.

I would counter that imagination with little knowledge is more valuable than much book learning with no creativity. To couple a wide array of interests  with no limitation to where your mind can take you is the true goal.  It was said that there were only two people in the world who could understand ‘General Relativity’ - Einstein….and God.

-Ezra Hilyer

I carry a Wenger Synergy Backpack, just about everywhere, and I thought I would post a list of it’s contents, and why i carry them. I am always changing, and trying to get a better set of components, I am in no way finished.

#1: The pack itself: Wenger Synergy - A good solid pack, recently upgraded from a Wenger Maxxum.

#2: Sharp PC-MM20 notebook computer. - I like it, small (under 2 lbs) and cheap. Continue Reading »