Goals lab

[Beany Boo]

Subgoal 2c: begun

[oak]

Subgoal 2c: begun

Well begun is half done.

[Beany Boo]

Subgoal 2c progress: Japanese travel-to-work words retained are hito (people), densha (electric train), ki (tree).

Goal 1 momentum: The word for goldfish is kingyo and goldfish symbolize good luck and vitality.

Subgoal 3a: (partial fail) beautiful group string-sound, not interested in joining. 3a revised: find a multi-cultural, multi-generational Saturday afternoon market ukulele band

Subgoal 4b achievements: Conversed to a young woman, having some practice and understanding now at reading, what it took for her just to talk to me. I felt touched by what she chose to share with me as a result and that what I shared was of value.

[oak]

Sugureta and yoku yatta!

[Beany Boo]

Subgoal 4c: Feminist book club and non-fiction reading list.
Subgoal 2c achievements: eki (train station)

[Beany Boo]

Subgoal 2e: Listen through ‘Fluent Forever’.
Subgoal 2e task: purchase a ‘frequency’ dictionary
Subgoal 2c progress: Tori (bird)
Subgoal 3d: band concept https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmsK59ncHs

[Beany Boo]

Subgoal 1d: Practice a goldfish (kingyo) fishing meditation

I hold the rod with my toe while I cradle my ukulele (“jumping flea”) and strum soft chords; in the lead up to Saturday afternoon market. Across the way, I see hito waiting at the eki listening for the drone of the next densha. Above, a tori in a ki chirps out a cadence. I glance at the pond and notice a kingyo kissing the water’s surface, that is speckling with mid-morning sunlight.

[Beany Boo]

Goal 5: Trade pretty, smart and marketable for healthy, loving and kind
Goal 6: Fun that also happens to get me somewhere
Subgoal 2c progress: Hataraki (work)

[rivergirl]

I love your goals lab posts, Beany. They make me feel oddly happy.

A bit of a coincidence/synchronicity: Over the past few years I've been volunteering with a group in my hometown working to preserve endangered historic buildings from a Japanese village that included a large goldfish farm prior to the internment of many of the Japanese American citizens during WWII. Link shows sculpture created to honor the villagers & goldfish farming operation:

https://www.rafu.com/2019/04/in-memory- ... and-water/

[Beany Boo]

Thank you rivergirl,

This is just the sort of felicitous connection that I hoped for when I focused my attention on the goldfish in Japanese culture.

This link is joyful to me.