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Morning walk: 4C/39F, lightly overcast, nice to walk without ears covered; Gusta found ‘new’ old smells hiding beneath receding snow. We dodged ice, early commuters and sprinting bus passengers. Now she rests, fed, watered; at my feet, lumpy fur foot rest.
Sorting the heart-felt from fatigue-felt; some days I feel something – can’t put my finger on that button, that feeling. When a wake-up comes with a sniffle that arrived overnight, newspaper’s front page tells little, breakthrough is right there – waiting to be figured out.
Is your best behind or ahead of you? Take a moment, that’s all it takes – ponder this:
- if you are 20, the answer is obvious, at 40 perhaps less certain, at 60 … that’s the time a lot of people start thinking: retire and relax .. if they not already hung up their skates.
- consider then - at 50, 60, 70 or 80 – the possibility, each morning we are at the very beginning of something momentous. Just starting, waking to our potential, seeing it for the very first time. What then? Why can’t we make dreams come true, right wrongs and make change in the whole world and leap tall buildings with a single bound? Or, maybe just change our tiny personal world? What cause, what issue and who among us isn’t worth it?
Can we do anything better - than hold a light for someone? When it gets dark, or in morning when sleep ends; days when all we see is darkness it’s OK, isn’t it, to let someone else turn on lights, flick our switch to ON (irony of that being the flip side of NO always amuses me), lift our spirit with candle flame or whack us on the noggin with a flashlight?
My body will live long, but without the spirit of me/in me, thriving, what can I give to it? This spirit is in us all. When I see it dormant in people, I want to thrash them a bit, wake them, shake them into realizing the greatest value in themselves is not yet realized. The surest way to find that is with that spirit awake and lit up. Maybe it’s my mission in life, to shake things up a little , to shake people up a little, or to shake myself.
Who are you shining a light for? Who is shining one for you? Flip your own switch, then someone else’s and say, WOW, what a start!
Light of morning arrives – leaks into this room, fuel for my flame - opening dark rooms or Pandora’s box, sheds light in corners, but still leaves some shadows for another day. Light comes from many places; lighting our way, or having it lit for us be someone ahead of us, someone looking back at us, someone shining the light on us.
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February 23 Comments
February 23 – AFRAID IS OK – The Mark Twain quote on your computer is a good compass for life. We ALL need quotes on our computers for focus. Mine is "When you cease to dream, you cease to live." You ARE "Lucky you" as you are treating fear and pain as signals not to close your eyes but to open them wider! Thank you again for sharing your thoughts with us, SY,
February 23 – AFRAID IS OK - Call me a hopeless romantic or a fool, I still believe that God has the perfect person for everyone. I’ve yet to do the deed to make my relationship “done”. I hate the thought of hurting someone I care about, and I guess I keep wondering if I’m making the right decision. I finally told him how the drinking is driving me away, and since the Saturday before last, he hasn’t drank alcohol at all. Which is great for him, I just wonder if that “exciting” feeling that has been lost will come back. I have prayed for that perfect person and to know the difference between them, or for something to keep me busy. What is funny is that recently, I have been completely happy by myself. “He” lives 150 miles away, we see each other every other weekend. Lately, I’ve been dreading our time together and cherishing my time alone. I’ve always thought I needed someone, now, I’m not so sure, at least not for now. Just letting you know you’re not alone in “love confusion”, KH,
February 23 – AFRAID IS OK - If you believe in a higher power, then you know you’re never alone. The choices you make are the ONLY ones you can make at the second in time you make then, taking into account your filters, experience, beliefs, perceptions, and nature; so they are not mistakes but experiences, neither good nor bad. Those words <good> <bad> are judgements and when you know all there is to know about everything, perhaps you’ll label something as <another experience> or <another lesson>. A friend of mine lost his sense of smell and when he recovered it, the first scent he smelled was just that – a scent, neither good nor bad, only a scent. The rest of us may have determined the horse manure was a bad smell; but to him it was only a scent and a welcome one. Happy to be back from
February 23 – AFRAID IS OK - I admire the way you wake up and make yourself happy. I admire the way you wake up long before the sun rises and write. I admire the way you reach out and help people in your life. You might be crazy for reaching out to a known risk like me, a person who has not yet figured out how to get from here to somewhere else, but if you are crazy for risking kindness and compassion and affection on someone like me, then lucky me, FO, Kaunakakai, HI
February 23 – AFRAID IS OK - How do we know when the relationship is ‘best’? Everything is relative. If you focus too much on the search, then you will constantly be worrying about the path that you have chosen. You will appear too hungry and scare aware those who might have been interested. I have just done this in my life. Wanted him too much and he went running. Try not to be too analytical and too intense. Just focus on feeling good about yourself as a person, all the wonderful memories you have and how incredibly lucky you are. And then, when you least expect it, someone will enter your life, CG, Mississauga, ON
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