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RE-FRAMING RE-MEMBERING

Wednesday June 3, 2015


Are we who we want to be?

Or who we expect to be?

As good as we know we are – our worst demons keep silently reminding that our worst messages, worst deeds, worst memories and worst experiences must frame us, shape us. Like stick-lumber framing a house.

Re-designing isn’t simply changing lines on paper, but changing our life.

Changing mind-set requires carpentry.

To rebuild, reshape and remake our own image of what those worst-of-times mean – worst moments were just that – moments. Sign-posts for driving-by. Bye-bye.

Reminding of significant events – but surely we don’t need help remembering.

We need help remembering moments.

When sweetness rolled over us like morning fog-blankets, when joy erupted from belly laughs, when smiles connected eye twinkles with fleeting thoughts. When imagination ran away with us …

Or we ran away with it.


Mark Kolke

column written/ published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  9C/48F, drizzly overcast, calm – and calming despite the traffic buzz, hum of tires on wet – it’s a soggy-dog morning and Gusta the wonder-sniffer could not be happier

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