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Friday Mar. 6, 2015


I love things that work.

People who perform, ideas worth discussing, funny things deserving belly laughs, flowers blooming in spring and people who blossom anytime, children laughing and parents who parent well and good-looking granny-types who ... look good.

These are few of my favourite things.

I love clean-up weeks – nothing urgently pressing, when there is time to have lunch with an old friend, do postponed errands, pick away at my to-do piles, cleaning up loose ends. Things to clean-up before launching new ones, starting next chapters and new things. Today through the weekend will be a mini-staycation at home (doesn’t everyone love tax time – boxes and filed and piles of unexplained receipts posing the question ‘what was that for?’) shall fill my time. And tonight’s gala – big deal awards things, rewarding people who perform …


Mark Kolke

column written/ published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  6C/43F, steady mild breeze, walking late in daylight (things shift Sunday to daylight savings time); Gusta managed to avoid muck and I walked a little faster – feeling friskier than I have in a long time – time to put clubs in my truck and look for a driving range (less than three weeks till Maui trip ..)

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LIKE ANY OTHER DAY

Mark, I read your column some days as much for finding out what Gusta does as what your other words of wisdom say to me. I am still heat broken over the loss of my dog at 13 years and it warmed my heart to see that you treated him to something special on his birthday. Have a great one with him, DB, Calgary, AB … p.s. : Thank you for the explanation and my sincere apologies to Gusta for mistaking her sex. Who on earth would want to be a male when you can be a female? Ha Ha And I love the name Augusta, beautiful. [editors note for those readers who were not on-board ten years ago when name-the-pup was my challenge: Au is the symbol for gold, so Gusta being a golden-retriever, Augusta being my late mother’s name, and Augusta being a golf mecca – these gave rise to naming Gusta .. and gust is an Icelandic word meaning intermittent wind]


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