作者: sunny 11 年，3 月 ago
Suddenly, I became the goose lady, after I told my Story of Canada Goose in front of 80 peoples who attended the 5 days mindfulness tool for stress reduction retreat in Four Point hotel, Norwood MA. They loved the story and made me a star. In the following days, I was shocked by the unexpected popularity and had a very unique experience.
When I walked in the hall way, an old lady I didn’t know approached me , gave me a warm hug and told me how much she liked my story. In the elevator, a young man smiled to me and told me how my story totally changes his idea about the geese. Before he heard my story, they were just mean birds who dared to attack his dog. On the breakfast table, people came to sit with me and asked questions about these geese; on the dinner table, people stayed longer and shared their story about the Canadian geese. One gentleman suggested I should go to story TV show and broadcast for larger audiences. Another gentleman encouraged me to keep writing and suggested the title of my first book should be “Geese come, geese go”.
Oh, my dear Sunny, please don’t be spoiled.
Then there came the exciting moment when a lady holding a goose, a stuffed toy actually, slowly walked toward my breakfast table, leaving a line of people with wide open eyes and mouth. The goose toy looked so real when the lady turned her little cute head to people around her (actually control by a stick inside). One hotel staff was so confused, he called the hotel security manager and complained that: “We are not supposed to allow animal in the hotel”. Anyway, this was the pieces I heard later. I just knew how surprised I was when I saw this friendly goose in her arms. It took me several minuets to realize it was just a toy. After the exciting moments of hugging, cheering, and picture taking, she gave the toy to me and told me her name was Quebec. So after breakfast, I had a goose in my arm while standing in the hotel hall, watching many well dressed business men and women walking by. Many of them were confused when encountered the goose. One big CEO like man was so shocked by it. He came to me and spoke like a boss: “Do you want to drive me crazy?” Of course, I didn’t. He laughed out loudly and left.
Oh, my dear Sunny, please don’t be spoiled.
But the real excitements came from the real goose. Four geese actually chose the pond and woods behind our hotel to be their winter home. After the story night, more people paid attention to these amazing birds, and shared their excitement to other people through words, signs and body languages. It seemed that we had geese everywhere, inside and outside of the hotel. The last morning of this retreat, I took a walk near the pond. It was a beautiful winter morning, with clean blue sky and cold fresh air. The sun just rose from the east horizon, pouring its golden strings on the woods, ponds and building. These four geese were in the pond doing their goose morning activity: singing, splashing and swimming. Then another 20 more geese from the neighborhood flew into the pond from all directions and joined their party. When all of them were singing, dancing, swimming and splashing in the pond, under the golden sunshine, I was totally amazed by them and stood there with wide open eyes and month. No words, no thinking, no feeling, the scene in front of me become everything for me in that moment.
Oh, my dear Sunny, you are really spoiled.
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Dongdong Lin 11 年，2 月 ago
Hi, Sunny,
Link | ReplyWhy don't you share the geese story in your Facebook? I really enjoy your story. Thank you for sharing!
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