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Saturday Feb. 28, 2015


Genesis.

Planting.

When springtime arrives …

Landscape gaze – particularly gloomy daze, days still short, though stretching. Snow comes, goes, comes again, goes …

Chilly air, some weeks worse, softening how we feel, explaining our self.

Everyone does.

Gazing, barren windswept landscapes of dreary-thought.

Difficult to cheer, challenged when we hear – stages – bleak to joy, weak to less-weak, sturdy to strong.

Someone wrote me – explaining their grief stages in terms I’d not heard explained before, described regrouping and recouping with freshness that can only be described as a sunny side-up egg grinning widely next to crisp toast and hot coffee on a Saturday morning.

We are not our facts – we are our attitude.

Seeds can be planted anytime, fertile ground and nurturing is all we need – and spring sunshine, when it comes, when we can bloom again.

 

Mark Kolke

column written/ published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  -11C/12F, day got up before the sun – sky is clear but not yet bright, steady face-chilling north breeze, pant-leg fluttering, Gusta happy to find a suitable depository for her scat after way too much delay, too many re-choosing stops, not because she couldn’t poop but because she wanted a longer walk …

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AS IF I WAS

I woke up this morning feeling energetic and alive. Yoga, baby! Namaste..., CC, Valencia, CA

Thanks for your thoughts my friend, KG, Calgary, AB


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