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Today's Musing Column:
GLAD YOU CALLED
Mark’s Musing Friday July 10, 2009 today’s Musing written and published from south Calgary, near Fish Creek Park
Morning walk report: 10C/50F, overcast, Robins are everywhere snapping up the proceeds of an early morning shower, Gusta soggy from dragging her coast in all the long grass; an early walk before I head to the gym and downtown for a breakfast meeting.
Several years ago an incredibly wise and kind mentor and dear friend cautioned me to avoid writing someone else’s story; so the portion of today’s remembrance of events four years ago are ‘not my story to tell’, and so I won’t be telling that gripping tale; I’ll write instead about some things I know - things I understand and tell my friend I think I understand, that I remember because I can’t forget . . .
I am awake, alive and running hard - sometimes I feel like that mouse on his wheel - but trying to not go ‘round in old circles because there are so many new circles I’ve not run in yet ..... in a world where pleasure is like an ice cream cone ... delicious for a few minutes, and then it is gone in its entirety, until pleasure, or an ice cream cone, come around again.
Pain does not live in isolation nor does it disappear when it sails over some horizon. Pain lives, it seems to last longer than pleasure, but in time, don’t they become companions - the hand and the glove, one fitting the other, resting comfortably, grins and tears, laughter and sadness - welded forever.
Pain, not necessarily opposite of pleasure - but clearly different; pain lasts, pain lives, pain resides in deep dark places. Pain, a set of shackles can hold us in place, or it can be fuel that burns, taking us to some new place.
Four years ago, when my phone rang at 2:30AM, anguish poured through the line. That part is MY story. I remember an early morning as if it was yesterday, imprinted on my life’s experience; I’ll always remember that power-punch blow of sadness. That agony of your love pain left me marked by a learning one could never want - or ever forget - or ever lose the value of that precious sharing you did that night.
Be well my friend; you are loved deeply and missed profoundly, as you too love and miss someone you lost . . .
I’ll always be glad you called, so glad it was me you called.
Mark Kolke 329,192 195.2
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July 9 - WHAT THIS LIFE IS FOR - Great philosophical questions never have simple answers. Ask "what is the meaning of life" to a hundred people and you may get that many answers, or more questions, each one a little different based on their individual being and priorities in life. As I am currently watching my 90 year old Aunt die from one system failure after another, the question that you posed resounds in the depth of my heart. Bottom line for her, and for just about everyone else, will be how she is remembered. She answered the question one day at a time. She was not famous, invent something revolutionary, have enough money to be a philanthropist or did anything to change the course of history. She was well known for her beautiful, sultry, Hawaiian singing voice, her vivacious personality, her creative stubbornness, and the hundreds of booties she crocheted to give away to charity. She tells the story about when she lived at Hickam AFB in 1941 and saw the bombs and torpedoes falling at Pearl Harbor. She absolutely changed MY history...her childrens, her friends, her family. The next question for the living to ask, and ponder on the depth that the question requires, would be; "What, in my life, will give others meaning for theirs?" More profound than imagined answers appear, LP, Wailuku, HI
July 9 - WHAT THIS LIFE IS FOR - Lately I've been wondering if we "win" when we no longer desire what we don't have. Don't we find another desire to replace the old one when we have satisfied it. Maybe winning isn't obtaining, but being content with the status quo. I belive in being ambitious, but not unhappily ambitious. At some point don't we have to look at our lives with a degree of satisfaction to be happy? Is there a balance?, KH, Stuart, FL
July 9 - WHAT THIS LIFE IS FOR - I'd say this life is about learning to love unconditionally, which envelops everything we can conceive of including learning, teaching, surviving. The absence of love breeds fear and it means if you can't love yourself, then you really can't love anything or anyone and you can't fully experience life because of the limitations that live inside of fear. If we are here to teach, we are also here to learn - different sides of the same coin. We also want to do more than just survive, we want to live, JW, Calgary, AB
How does the stock market work? Would a search by CUSIP or some marriage compatibility test or today’s leo love horoscope bring joy?Writing and posing fun questions to get to know someone, me, works. Not every day, but over time it works.
