MUSINGS and other writing by Mark Kolke

IT IS IT’S
 
Mark’s Musing Friday Aug. 21, 2009
today’s Musing  written and published from south Calgary, near FishCreekPark
 
Morning walk report: 11C/51F, clear, a morning star and its sun counterpart with its trickle of light leaking over the horizon still left our alley route alone in its darkness; some marauding critters left debris there the bags at the curb (it’s trash day).
 
Each day I descend to my office lair, work piled and spread - priority like - around this space, first-thing reminder of how many opportunities I am pursuing and, at the same time, how many unfinished tasks and old problems I have left to solve.  It’s Friday morning and its just not fair . .. )!!!%*#*%*
 
If I laid out in a row, all my problems, all my mistakes strung in a line, it’s clear to me that there would be no end to it. So many little things best left alone; why mess up the day, with clarity when being muddled seems to work so well?  It’s a good thing, a great gig; life’s path is littered with decisions gone wrong.
 
The busy head, tiny debates rage on, it’s always going - out loud or inside - seems petty, it’s small; in fact, its smallness is the reason it stays in the head.  Little things, petty things, things that don’t matter much, won’t matter tomorrow and barely matter now.
 
STOP
 
Bleary eyes open into a dream scene of morning playfulness; gone, dead of night is over - sun now risen, sends shafts of light to arouse my sleepy morn. In its hands, smiling sunshine caresses every nuance of me, lifts me up to stand erect on the earth filled with fire and zeal suitable for taking on the world - as a friend to link arms with - for this day awaits, there are tall buildings to be leapt, castles for storming, dragons to be slain, damsels to be rescued and a world to be saved ....
 
START
 
The self talk we each begin our day with can be negative, pulling us down and skewing our approach to the day; letting the sunshine be our guide, we can just as easily let an inconvenience become an opportunity, let a setback put us on a new path.
 
Yes, life sucks sometimes - its unfairness shows off every day; it’s up to me to make it work, it’s up to me to take the biggest challenges as an opportunity to make them a footnote worth noting, so one day, with a smile I can look back on this day as one where I didn’t find myself splayed out on the windscreen of life.
 
GO
 
Mark Kolke
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