MUSINGS and other writing by Mark Kolke

. . . . . . there is no edge to openness

TODAY'S MUSINGS

FEEDBACK / COMMENTS

MARK SPEAKS

MARK'S SPEAKING TIPS

ARCHIVED COLUMNS

ARCHIVE WINTER 2020-21

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2020

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2020

ARCHIVE SPRING 2020

ARCHIVE WINTER 2019-20

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2019

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2019

ARCHIVE SPRING 2019

ARCHIVE WINTER 2018-19

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2018

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2018

ARCHIVE SPRING 2018

ARCHIVE WINTER 2017-18

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2017

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2017

ARCHIVE SPRING 2017

ARCHIVE WINTER 2016/17

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2016

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2016

ARCHIVE SPRING 2016

ARCHIVE WINTER 2015/16

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2015

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2015

ARCHIVE SPRING 2015

ARCHIVE WINTER 2014/15

ARCHIVE AUTUMN 2014

ARCHIVE SUMMER 2014

ARCHIVE SPRING 2014

ARCHIVE WINTER 2013/14

CONTACT

MY REAL ESTATE LIFE

WHY I WRITE MUSINGS

SHORT STORY PROJECT

POETRY PROJECT

SELECTED OTHER WORK


TO HAVE

… or to have not

Thursday July 3, 2014


Exposure to opportunities is not something to be late for …

We’ve many times missed opportunity-trains, witnessing cabooses disappear …

Oops.

We’ve lost opportunities for good, forever, by being asleep, uninformed, unexposed.

Most things and most people are completely unknown to us.

Oceans, continents, and 7 billion people you don’t know much about. Those who’ve travelled extensively, lived in faraway places – and those who study such things – cannot fully explain anything, can they?

Nobody is diverse enough in our reality, grasp or views to be representative.

We are haves or have-nots.

Those who have not, who have no wanting (or expectation) to have.

Those who have – protecting dearly what they have from those who might take it away from them.  Nations do this, corporations, competing retail shops, work-groups within employers, friends, neighbours and families – everybody’s doin’ it …

If we turned things upside down – not permanent change, just temporary upheaval, like digging in couch-cracks for change, finding surprises – dig into someone else’s brain.

Imagine what you might find.

What you imagined? If we are open to listening, to paying attention, to understanding – we’ll find something else entirely.

Entirely surprising.

Once you’ve tried it a few times – amazed by results – you will find nothing as much fun, nothing more exhilarating (well, almost .. but you get my meaning), nothing more worthy of your time invested in it, wasted on it, squandered and spread all around on it.

We can’t explore whole world in many lifetimes, wherever our sails take us, but we can explore someone by simply asking to come ashore in their life.

Who have you explored lately?

Have?

Or have not?


Mark Kolke

196,736

column written/ published from Calgary

morning walk:  16C / 61F, a few clouds, trickle of a breeze. I wore shorts this morning instead of my usual sweats – but Gusta seemed to need to visit all that mosquito infested tall grass, so we turned that walk into a light jog. Another splendid day awaits …

Reader feedback / comments always welcome:

ooohh ahhhh!

Agreed. Interesting: on Canada Day our son-in-law was visiting from Texas; his comment? – “it was a quiet day”. No doubt he will participate more fully in the patriotic fervour of his homeland when he returns there on Friday. I didn’t apologize for the quiet way we Canadians celebrate our freedom and diversity, and he didn’t seem to feel the need to hear that anyway. It was a nice day, KK, Calgary


Sign up to get MUSINGS by Email
» click HERE to be added to our list!
For Email Marketing you can trust

MUSINGS
daily stirrings

 
read my posts on MEDIUM
 
read my posts on TWITTER 
 

 
quick link - to this season's ARCHIVED COLUMNS
 

 
quick link - to this year's DAILY QUOTES
 

 
quick link - to my weekly FACILITYCalgary newsletters
 

 
quick link - to my Linked in page
 

 
quick link - to my MaxComm business website
 

 
quick link - to my office leasing website
 

 
quick link - to my residential real estate services website
 

quick link - discussion of office leasing 
 

sign up to get Musings free daily


Comments are always welcome - please contribute to the discussion.  Reply to: kolke@markkolke.com

You can also connect with me on LinkedIn. This site is updated daily, each column is retained in the archive when the next day's column is loaded ...  


Copyright - all rights reserved - Mark Kolke, © 2003-2021