Always with the camera

Marlon Reynoso is a “people-person.” Growing up as a Filipino-American in the “normal” American institutions such as family, school, church, corporate America, etc., he believes that there is always something to be learned even though that “something” does not agree with social norms.  Outside-of-the-box thinking, inspiration by substance, and evaluating the popular vote are what inspire him to write.

Marlon enjoys keeping up with pop-culture and the latest trends. Understanding that materialism and pop-culture will pass away, he loves to take advantage of the times to point out that there are far more important matters that will transcend these times.

To Marlon, life is about transitions. He believes that our actions based on transitions in life are what reveal our character, which eventually create a ripple effect and a deepening of our footprints while we’re here. Passionate about something? Marlon want’s to hear about it, and help encourage you to get where you need to be.

Also, Marlon nev…

Wait did you just sneeze? No?

Well there goes the train of thought…

God bless you (even though you didn’t sneeze).

P.S. It was weird writing about myself in third person. I mean, try writing about yourself in your own yearbook or something…so yeah…

For more detail on how “SoYeah.net” came about, check out his first entry.

Contact info:

Email: soyeahonline@gmail.com

Twitter @NotTheFish

“What direction? Death or action! Life begins at the intersection.”

- Jon Foreman in Faust, Midas and Myself

Have you ever been involved in a conversation where nothing else in the world mattered outside of the topic at hand?  You are subject to one of two places: you are the one expressing, or  you are being impressed.  Whether one is an introvert or extrovert, the reality is that people want to be “heard.”  There is a longing for one’s expression to not only be seen, heard, tasted, felt, or even smelled, but ultimately for it to be understood.

We live in a culture of complex simplicity where we have items and systems to “simplify” or make one’s life more “convenient,” but the saturation of simple lifestyle choices makes our lives, put simply, complex.

Moreover, think about the conversations we are involved in each day.  More than often, the main ingredient of the subject matter we converse of is based on our environment…literally. We talk about the weather. It is a common conversation starter.  ”It sure is pouring out there…”

:TRANSITION:

Fade in? More conversation? Fade out? Leave the conversation?

Should one be fortunate to continue speak or share more of their views of the world, morality, environment, people, religion, the local news, sports, entertainment, etc. the desire, as stated before, is to be “heard,” and if you are the one who should be listening, chances are that you are already rehearsing your response.

Back and forth the conversation goes: you, the other, you, then another, the other, you, etc. As each one finishes expressing a transition is required, and as the conversation reaches another intersection, a transition is required.  Then, as the conversation wraps up, a transition is required.  THIS is where life continues.  Here is where one hopes for a rebirth of perspective and painful paradigm shifting.  So we ease our way into the new light or back into our old comfortable illuminations with either a sigh, gestures of (dis)agreement or simple words of cultural vernacular: “…oh well…” “…but anyway…” “…so…” “…anyways…” or

“…SO YEAH…”

SO YEAH

-Marlon Reid.

Written December 7, 2009