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OF COURSE
Mark’s Musing Tuesday Aug. 11, 2009 today’s Musing written and published from south Calgary, near Fish Creek Park
Morning walk report: 14C/57F, lots of non threatening clouds, Gusta couldn’t quite understand walking in the dark (unsure if it was still night or if morning had arrived); I saw spectacular sunrise (from a high-point en route to the golf course, to play 9 of course), stopped to see my dad on the way back, arrived home ravenous, ate breakfast - wrote this column - and so began a great start to a writing project filled day.
Reading, or writing, a truth - deep insightful ones or the simplest - rings true not because it makes sense logically but because it rings true for us from our own experience. Of course it does. Sometimes things don’t make any sense at all till that happens and then everything is suddenly simple and simply clear.
I am not sure what being ‘blocked’ is like; the term is bandied about in the writing world as frequently as ‘pulled hamstring’ is in the world of football - each debilitating events that prevent easy play.
When the opportunity for free-reigning creativity is stifled, or blocked, I find some of my best inspiration comes from reading great quotes (of great writers, of course)
Fyodor Dostoyevsky wrote: “Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided to it.”
Of course.
I find, on days that too much is going on, the opportunity to write anything good and to give it deserved time is virtually impossible; making a one hour time slot work for a one hour project is just too hard if there are pressing appointments following or too many pressing things on my mental agenda.
Deer walking across golf course, my walking, swinging and whacking through nature in search of an illusive white dimpled ball ...
Each stroke was a joy so I counted them all.
Mark Kolke 329,444 195.6
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August 10 Responses
August 10 – PREPARED FOR UNPREDICTABLE – Interesting....how we all are so different...When I awake every morning...I never have a plan. I know the things that need to be accomplished in order to proceed, but I never give any of them an assigned time. Then I just flow through the day. I take one thing at a time and sometimes I juggle three or four things in the air at once. By the end of the day....all is done and I rest..... close my eyes knowing ALL is Well! And so it is! I do not worry about the future. I know it will come, ALG, Neotsu, OR
August 10 – PREPARED FOR UNPREDICTABLE - Life is far too broad to be clichéd....It's all there is. Life in all its variations is very possible...we have all proved it with every breath. I find nothing wrong with Helen Keller's statement. Why not make life an adventure? And yes, I know where Amundsen was coming from. To survive in the death-defying feats he undertook, one mistake in planning could not only create an adventure, but the end of all experience. Yes, I'm prepared, I'm content and I rest very well from what I do. Of course I'm not perfect, whatever that is, EG, Calgary, AB
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Happy belated birthday Mark, I was so busy last week, I had saved all the musings to catch up. Today I was reading Harry Tucker’s Quest for Authenticity, I found it very stimulating. I think everyone needs to be reminded of this sometimes, even myself, KH, Stuart, FL
