RAPID OXIDATION
Friday Nov. 1, 2013
Not by needing someone’s help to do it, but so we can light our own way. If someone comes alongside to share our light, that’s OK. At work, love or play, all night, all day . . .
Each of us can embolden others to luminosity, or hold a mirror close to their tiny candle to inflate, impel and invigorate. Or not. Hard to reflect a snuffed flame.
We can make that our mission, journey and cause.
Before we walk, we crawl.
Before we crawl we sit motionless, staring out so many windows on dreary mornings or rainy nights in search of motivation. It doesn’t come in the form of a Light My Fire song cue – get up, stand up, wake up, light up – it lives within.
Fuel, always there, requires spark.
Where did that go?
Each of us, like furnaces, like hot water heater – all that equipment in place, without flame, no heat. Without our pilot lit, just a pile of metal – pile of purpose, incapable of action.
We all have a fire within – running around all day, every week or the whole year – in search of match or lighter to get us started, to light us.
I have an idea - carrying our own match, being our own match, lighting ourselves, not a bonfire, just a starter blaze – pilot light, kindling fire.
Or I can light yours. You can light mine.
Better, I think, when we light our own.
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary
morning walk: 5C/41F, mildness (before a snowy weekend), streets awash in leaves, trees bare, steady breeze, Gusta uncooperative in terms of stop/go, or maybe she sees me as uncooperative?
Comments Received:
Like so many other things in my life that came within my grasp, love snuck up on me when I had more or less quit looking. That seems to be my life's experience; when I quit looking for an answer, a solution, a perceived need to be filled, then there it was. Does that mean we should cease to expend energy trying to find those things in our lives? I think it just means that maybe, just maybe, we don't really know what we are looking for and if it passed us by in the midst of the searching, we wouldn't recognize it. Love can be elusive and it grows out of a settling for friendship or companionship or partnership or whatever feels comfortable. GW, Brady, Tx.
Hey Mark: That person's perspective that you seem to have holes to fill does not surprise me. That's the message I get from many of your posts. Perhaps you could look back at some to see if you can see it too. We often don't see it if we're not looking for it. Even today's post: { Someone. Somewhere. Somebody wants to share life with me. I used to think I had a good notion of what she would be like. Someone I've gotten close to, told me my on-line profile was not the side of me she would want or be interested in, or described the person she'd come to know. Sadly for me, she's a dream that won't come true for me, ever, but one should never ever say never, should one? } .. Of course, that's just One Woman's Opinion, SG, Calgary, AB
I really liked your column today, CB, Calgary, AB
I enjoyed seeing the Mona Lisa at the Louvre years ago!, Cheers, RL, Calgary, AB
