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SELF ASSESSING

Friday Jan. 16, 2015


There is no turning back.

Life is a forward looking, forward moving activity.

It must be.

Things cannot be un-done. But we can change things, do new things. Projects. Ideas. Tasks. Whims. Wild dreams. Outrageous ideas. Outlandish plans. Massive miscalculations.

Am I describing corporate folly, government grandiosity or everyone?

Or assessing myself?

What is truth?

And once you’ve figured that one out, does that mean everything else – everything that isn’t truth – is illusion?


 

Mark Kolke

P.S.: I’ve concluded in recent days that pain, and avoidance of it, causes brevity. I wonder if that is applicable to many things, to everything or just to my thing …

column written/ published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  4C/40F, overcast, warm breeze – dead of night silence as banners at the car dealership flapped in the wind. Gusta was very busy sniffing rabbit droppings where snow has receded from tree-wells.


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Welcome to the denture club.  It’s horrible for a while but better soon, RH, Calgary, AB 


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