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Morning walk: 1C/34F, calm, overcast, 2 inches of white covering everything, light drizzle spray in our faces, Gusta loved it – returning dry on top, wet underneath . . the midpoint appearing like the water line of a boat.
Just because it is Friday (we’re all tired and too pooped) doesn’t mean our brains or bodies can’t do something valuable. Just a moment, while you savor your coffee, ask yourself, if it became necessary - to rescue someone - would you row your boat over to save them?
It couldn’t be done. It can’ be done. It’s impossible. How many times do we encounter statements like these?
If we don’t give up, if we refuse to stop trying, we are never defeated. Everything starts somewhere, but it only stops when we let it stop – we are only flattened when we say we are. Just about anything is possible, whatever the dismal odds or barriers we face. I am not discounting informed decision making any more than uninformed dreaming . . . whatever spark gets us going, that spark has magic in it.
Whether altruistic zeal or dreadful fear, something moves us from thoughts and dreams into action. Am I dreaming too large? What big problem am I trying to solve? What big goal am I pursuing? What big challenge am I trying to make a reality? What cause I am trying to champion? Who needs help and what am I doing to help them? Why is there apathy? Why are we so reluctant to get involved?
End of short week following Victoria weekend – American friends gear up for Memorial Day, British celebrate (this is 70th) anniversary) of that rescue, thousands of little boats, saving thousands of soldiers stranded on Dunkirk beaches. Fifty of those boats, still afloat, will re-enact the crossing to commemorate their efforts when, following a battle failure, they prevented catastrophic death of thousands. They risked it all, gave all, to do the impossible. That is worth a weekend of celebration.
A quote from Robert Fritz gets me clear on these issues of what we should or should not dream or scheme about, wish for, work for or struggle against. He said: ‘If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.’
Whatever the horrid odds or substantial obstacles, we only fail when we believe our objective is not possible. Dream impossible gigantic deed dreams. People who need our help most are not always stranded on a beach somewhere, rescue by boat is not the only way to help and we are all capable of doing something about it. Have a great uncompromising weekend!
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UNDERCOVER WORK - archived poetry
A day for it, walking for hours
drenched, ready for it, come home
for it – to be there in dreary quiet
damp day drizzle. cloud cover,
sun shines somewhere but not here,
there and over somewhere else,
but not here - because right here
right now , absence of heat –
kind you feel, warm day kind
kind you need on drizzly day
kind , found under covers
hiding out from this world
just a bit, not fear frozen
or anxiety flight taking but
just staying, trusting instinct
body over brain desire comes,
no intuitive value to it kind
that brings smiles to lips
and fingers to tips this day
for it, living a dream
dreaming a life built on this
foundation of rainy days
wearing socks under covers.
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Mark Kolke
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