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

THIS WILL TAKE SOME TIME

Thursday Mar. 10, 2016         

 

Taking some time.

We use this term willy-nilly.

Explains things …

Taking time to think things over.

Taking a vacation.

Making a space between jobs.

Spa day.

Rest between dinner and desert.

Not responding immediately to an event, presentation, comment …

Meditating.

Or, morning ritual between waking and starting the day.

Or, sitting quietly on a shore waiting for something to arrive on a wave, or brainwave.

In one direction, on one thought, one theme. Just one. Just for a minute …

Taking some time implies simply absence of rush, without hurry or worry.

Waiting for time to pass, and alas, it has. Those minutes can feel like hours. Busy brain inside a quieted body produce stillness to match, or run off in a thousand directions all at once. Or in one.

Take some time …

 

Mark Kolke

written / published from Calgary, AB

morning walk:  0C/32F, cloud bank on the horizon blocking the sun – the rest of the sky bright blue but without the sun’s early glare, calm – but Gusta had a mulit-rabbit chases reason for exercising her restriction of the long leash to the chagrin of my rotator cuff, but it was invigorating. And inspiring, to see ear tips and feet on those rabbits starting to turn brown – though the big-white coat suggests to me they might know something I don’t about the weather …


Join Musings Mailing List
Join the Musing following ...

Join Musings Mailing List
Join the Musing following ...

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