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HAMMERING AWAY
Saturday Mar. 26, 2016
Looks easy. Or is it thoughtlessness?
To trust luck or fate?
Seems safer. Stay put, stay steady, stay unmoved – sedentary resignation to reclining/declining years. I scarcely tolerate seeing that in others. Could not abide that in myself. What waste!
Time is not limited. We are.
By forces of nature and chance – we neither imagine or control. Agenda, action, purpose and exploration. Thrilled . ‘What’s next?’ I decide most things, find what is next, imagine what is next …
Own your own agenda. Can’t imagine anyone setting mine.
Coming to road-forks is easy. Just take it, as Yogi would say. Each route’s appeal is substantial, tug is real. Gravitational anchoring – not to place, profession or perspective as much as it is ‘not having to think’ about the familiar, the usual. Sitting still, staying comfortable/complacent is stress-free but without thrill, does not require any decision other than one very-real one: not trying very hard.
Trying very hard, is something I’ve not done much of. I’ve tried hard-enough, often, but too often just enough to get the job done, too often plenty enough – but not all-in, all-ahead, all-spilt out and sprayed on the field like I have nothing left to give, no energy left to spend, no more heart to invest.
Strange place – not so much strange as unfamiliar. Not a road-fork-moment. More like a traffic circle, with many routes spoking off in any direction I care to turn …
Hub. My wheel. Each path, a spoke which leads to where rubber meets road – new adventure, people, places. I am hammering, like a blacksmith. New form, perhaps something more useful …
Reshaping. Re-pointing, recalculating …
Mark Kolke
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: -1C/30F, clear sunny, steady sturdy breeze, streets quiet and Gusta seemed more content than usual to just follow along without her usual ADHAD sniff-hunts every time a breeze brings some new scent-diversion. Good head-clearing walk ...
Reader feedback:
MOST OF THE TIME
Faith, is in ‘showing up’ for your promises, engagements and obligations. Yes, it is a choice, like white meat or dark meat. Actions, consistently repeated for the good, reveal in you that ‘faith can move huge boulders’, even mountains. Mark, know that I have faith in you. You keep showing up. May the Easter Bunny be good to you, JF, Calgary, AB
As usual your comments are right on. Even if we think we know someone well, if we don’t ask we are still assuming, LH, Lethbridge, AB
TASTE IT DON’T WASTE IT
Congrats on your win at International Speech – and good luck on April 5th, at Division. I know you’ll be vewwy vewwy good!, KK, Calgary AB
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