Musing

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+10C in Calgary this morning, partly cloudy, big arch in the west,
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for now the rain has stopped, making a walk with clean dog a challenge – keeping Gusta on any path requires a leash management course – air is fresh, trees & everything that grows looks very happy with last night’s good soak – breathe deeply
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it is time to blog - I’ve been poked & prodded & cajoled to establish a BLOG; while not a new concept, certainly new to me – no doubt a stepping stone toward publishing my book; a weblog or BLOG is a really simple way of making these musings available & archived on the web
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I have become convinced in recent days – I marvel at a friend’s strength in the face of grief & struggles ahead for someone they hold dearly close
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I marvel at that which we all seek & need & cherish when we have it - that which we pursue endlessly when we do not; ironically we all have it in spades with many people in our lives but many miss it because they hold to a romantic notion that this ‘can be / must be’ found only in a romantic relationship – which would be sweetest of course, but not the only way to have it
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it is not just love or loyalty; not caring & commitment; not passion & memories – while it can be all of those things it is something intangibly more important . . . glue . . connective tissue . . of spirits now or once entwined that they never ever disconnect; we ALL have these elements in our relationships, though sometimes those connections may appear to be tenuous
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they are always there like extremely stretched piece of fibre-glass fabric that twists like toffee while leaving strands severely stretched that grow long & thin but do not break
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a line in the movie Shall We Dance really struck me:
‘we need someone to be a witness to our life’
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being a witness means being there, however stretched that connecting fibre might be; I know that matters most, matters best, matters always – while we may disguise it in the words we use to describe in the relationships, loves, trysts, partnering etc. we seek to find or seek to maintain, it is just that simple; ‘be witness to my life’ should become a pick-up line
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‘People are like stained glass windows -- the true beauty can be seen only when there is light from within. The darker the night, the brighter the windows. - Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
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Mark343,360