DO IT NOW
Tuesday Feb. 21, 2012
Even when I seem to be going in circles, I have everything I need.
So do you. Just check your compass, get your bearings . . . start the next journey.
A sense of our personal direction, a taste of the wind and a sense of which way it is blowing helps – the world beckons us to explore, to use our crayons on both sides of the lines, to make some messes, test theories and test ourselves.
Ideas seem to be flowing around in the air, like radio waves, but I won’t hear them without my receiver/radio turned on, adjusted to the right frequency.
To say nothing of interference (most often the good kind) from sources unknown, a call coming in or an idea I collide with, any given day, my direction may change several times, schedule often altering itself.
Change and know-how, mouse-click or sound-byte away – my route, plan or map to get where I want to end up doesn’t matter so much anymore, does it? I don’t mean the cliché about the journey being more important than the destination (seems pretty clear), but I think, more important than knowing where I am going, is knowing who I am – my exploration compass, personal GPS (get positioned system) – telling me, however lost or confused I might be about where I am going, I’ll never be at a loss to know where I am.
Tic-toc, compass or clock, clock or click . . . what guides us, keeps us on our path, keeps us out of the ditch or saves us from flying off a cliff with an anvil tied to our ankle?
One month of calendar winter left – ominous milestone considering how mild this one has been but one month from today spring will start. If confused about where you are going, or who you are – why wait for spring, do it now!
Mark Kolke
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column written/ published from Calgary: morning walk: 2 C/ 36 F, clear and calm, fresh snow-dust overnight, Gusta sparked the interest of a black lab pup . . . birds chirping their spring wishes too.
Comments Received:
It seems your words often inspire words that congeal upon the page of thought...feelings you espouse boil in the pot till it seems impossible not to respond...This is a ponder...is it the raw nature of emotion displayed or the ability to post it without fear...perhaps the vulnerable in brief exposures...ti's a puzzlement... , SJ, Evanston, WY
