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JOURNEY
Sunday Sept. 27, 2015
The late Yogi Berra’s yogi-isms will live long …
My favourite: "When you come to a fork in the road, take it". He explained it as directions – to his home on a long loop road. When you arrived at that fork it didn’t matter whether you went left or right, it was the same distance.
I love Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken:
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Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
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And sorry I could not travel both
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And be one traveler, long I stood
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And looked down one as far as I could
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To where it bent in the undergrowth;
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Then took the other, as just as fair,
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And having perhaps the better claim,
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Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
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Though as for that the passing there
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Had worn them really about the same,
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And both that morning equally lay
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In leaves no step had trodden black.
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Oh, I kept the first for another day!
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Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
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I doubted if I should ever come back.
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I shall be telling this with a sigh
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Somewhere ages and ages hence:
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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
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I took the one less traveled by,
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And that has made all the difference.
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Take a fork. Choose a path. Travel together – or go it alone.
Always a choice.
Alone can be lonely. Every fork, a choice. Every path choice. A decision. If you are travelling alone on my path, please lead, follow, or get out of my way.
Or … take my hand. On different paths – sometimes we travel alone. Sometimes we hold someone’s hand.
Mark Kolke
P.S.: --- watch for it: 8:11PM Eastern, tonight through to 1:22AM Eastern … that’s eclipse time; a great combo of super-moon and lunar eclipse …
written / published from Calgary, AB
morning walk: 8C/46F, sunny/chilly first thing – a very long walk, lots of caffeine … a hunker down to work day ahead – and Gusta will have to get play time later …
Reader feedback:
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Secret sauce indeed, KD, Olds, AB
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