BECAUSE IT IS DIFFERENT FROM YOURS
Mark’s Musing Tuesday Feb. 9, 2010
today’s Musing written and published from Cranston in south- east Calgary, near the Bow River valley
Morning walk: -12C/9F, clear and calm, the cranes on top of the new hospital look like silhouetted shore birds against first light glimmers; Gusta enjoyed a romp, and an alternative view from deeper snow in the field near the ball diamonds . .
See my view. I see the same world you do; I see it my way. What do you see?
Adventure/misfortune of others – interesting/entertaining; not as useful as learning our own. Gratifying as it is to have an audience, I write what pleases me, or pains me – not about them or for them. I examine my issues, my ideas, my problems; they come to mind from some trigger or silly headline or what is happening in my mixed and often mixed-up life; to explore what I might be. This adventure, where I enjoy poking life with a stick, or pressing it closer with a pillow; at times it is nothing, at times it is everything.
Identify with what I have to say, or not. Enjoy it or rail against it. Support, argue, use delete key, or not. This is what there is to it; nothing more.
Look, at what I see; if only one view, for a brief while - then that is where I am looking, to see the world that way, or some different way, until it is time for something different.
If I do this, what will happen? If I do the other thing, will it matter much, will it work out – and how will it change the course of my life, your life or …. of history?
Waiting for something – someone, some event; aren’t we all? I am waiting. For you, for me. Do give an answer, show me a glimmer, offer a clue to what the future holds. Don’t we all want to know; juicy drama, perched, edge of seats – wanting to know what happens next. Don’t give us an intermission, or candy-fluff, we want to know it all, want to know it now?
Look. See life. Through this lens, my lens; not a better lens but because it is different from yours. Anything seen from two views reminds me there are at least that many (often many more) ways to see. Seeing another, or any, or several others, may simply validate the view I had in the beginning. Or, prompt me to see another way to right an un-rightable, do an un-thinkable, or believe I can do the un-doable.
I used to be convinced that no issue, problem or conflict can be solved with a single action or a simple sentence, or a single word. I’ve changed that view; I see the simple, singular and elegant solution as more rule than exception. If you don’t get it, consider how it feels to have someone’s hand touch you, or hold or shake yours. It might shake, or shake up, your world. And, imagine, the word YES (or it’s alter-ego NO) at the right moment, the right situation, the right person – a single syllable solution. ‘PLEASE’ is another one, but be careful on the inflection because pull-leeeze has no joy in it.
I woke this morning - with clearly identified hopes, dreams, ambitions and values; these are my tools. The next few hours, and the people I encounter, are my raw material. I believe I can make something of it all. I’ll work on it.
What are you working on today?
Mark Kolke
324,776
196.0
RESPONSES/COMMENTS ALWAYS WELCOME; send to: mark.kolke@frameyourmessage.com
February 8 Comments
February 8 – PERHAPS THEY WILL – Wazzup? Can't tell from Musings... Just some wiggle room in today's column that left room for wonder..., CB, Calgary, AB
|
|