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Morning walk: -3C/26F, clear, crisp, calm, frosty windshields indicate a temporary dip; vigorous walk - feet and toes performing well (gout doubt continues), Gusta wanted to chase a dog the size of a small pony, but I thought better of that . .
So many things aren’t what they seem – we search for illusive combos of intimacy and friendship in the same person – often finding we are in the right store on the wrong day, or pieces don’t fit yet, or at all, or ever will be, but still we search and try, again and again, because sitting where we are resigned to continuing as we have in the past we deserve to get what we got in the past. As that quote points out, all we really need to change is our mind. If we do that, the body follows, the actions follow, the changes follow.
Bon jour, comment ça va?
Where, and how, are you going?
For me, yesterday was mostly goodness filled; little things moved forward, little conversations led somewhere worthy, little problems moved down solution paths, a good cardiac clinic checkup for my dad and an awesome cheese sandwich – a good day.
Someone reminded me yesterday of this quote I’d heard before; I searched it out:
‘If you continue to believe as you have always believed, you will continue to act as you have always acted. If you continue to act as you have always acted, you will continue to get what you have always gotten. If you want different results in your life or your work, all you have to do is change your mind.’ - source unknown
Have you made a familiar plan, checked a familiar route – or have you changed your mind?
No desire to race, to some imagined finish line – one mile, one curve, one adventure at a time seems the best way to observe scenery. I want a quality test-drive experience, of acceleration, and braking, high speeds and coasting too, hairpin turns and long straight-aways, cruising through questions, answers. I see this, as some form of dance, where notes have yet to make the music, where tiny encounters leave every thing changed a little bit, and the mind changed most of all.
This is getting acquainted with new-ways stuff. We don’t usually notice life-altering change, because most big things look the same at first – but they aren’t. Eyes closed, imagination at work – where we limit (or not) what we see, test comfort boundaries, and dis-comfort too; where we go too far, or not far enough. How do we go?
‘He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites—and escapes.’ – Joseph Conrad Conrad knew it, you know it and I know it to; to all those we’ve loved and lost, to those we’ve lost without truly loving at all – we learn, we try again, and sometimes we get a chance to ‘do over’ that which we’ve done poorly before. The law of attraction is not a law; reason has little to do with reasons; and sports have so little to do with sportsmanship – do you see where I am going?
Good day!
BARGE TALK
We think in pictures,
when we don’t need words,
or touches to tell us that,
to know we are loved.
When we have pictures on our
mind we get feelings and when
we have feelings on our mind
vivid pictures form.
And then, words barge in.
Mark Kolke
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March 23 – WHAT IS TRUE – “Living in this world, wanting to change it, or simply to change the way we think we think - does not flow into a design of us, it is the design of us. Like a book, when you are done, you've read your life, cover to cover.” It's said that "want power makes will power." If you want it badly enough, you will find a way to make it happen. But look within for "want power." because that is where it is to be found, and sufficient desire is the necessary first step to accomplishing anything worthwhile. I found something I thought might be of interest to you: …..”Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade.”…”It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else’s head – even if in the end you conclude that someone else’s head is not a place you’d really like to be.”…. from “What the Dog Saw” by Malcolm Gladwell ; JW-Calgary/Cochrane, AB
March 23 – WHAT IS TRUE - Good morning. Arms and legs moving slow. Sensory overload from being offered more selection than I've come across since you took me to Ikea. (no Ikea in
March 23 – WHAT IS TRUE - Could it be that you found a muse for this particular Musing? , PG,
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