Musing

Hi Mark,I un-subscribed from your Facility Calgary mailing list as news of real estate issues in Calgary doesn't have much relevance to me. However, the musings seem to have stopped too. I look forward to being reinstated. Best wishes from Shelagh in England where the weather is still lovely and warm and the trees are determinedly hanging on to their leaves, SK, Suffolk

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Good luck with your lunch and I enjoyed your musings. Good luck with the book direction., KG, ?

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Hi Mark, Just a thought, I like what I read from you each morning....would you like to do coffee??? Just coffee and honest conversation! How about it?, MS, Calgary

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Here are some thoughts on good news vs. bad news. I got to thinking about what good news would like from a media perspective. "In the news today; Korea did not test a nuclear device, untold numbers of people safely made it from home to work and back again, globally between 4 and 5 million people successfully took off and landed in airplanes, millions of marriages didn't break up and billions of people were not adversely impacted by war in the countries in which they live." Overly simplistic perhaps but really would any of us watch, listen to or read news the good news was all that was reported? But perhaps more importantly I got wondering if this bad news perspective in our media isn't merely a reflection of how we look at our own personal worlds. On any given day if our primary relationships are stable, if we got to and from where we were going without mishap, if we and those important to us were healthy and if we were comfortably housed, fed and employed, how much time do we spend noticing how good we have life? We are quick to notice (and complain) when things don't go the way we think they should, but how quickly do we notice when they are as good or better then we expect them to be? Is your drive home from work notable, i.e. newsworthy, if it goes without incident or only if something bad happens like someone cuts you off or you get stuck in a traffic jam? When was the last time you complimented your children for behaving vs. reprimanding them for misbehaving? When was the last time you not only noticed but acknowledged all the good things your partner contributes to your life instead of pointing out the latest thing they are doing that irritates you? In other words do you live your personal life from a good news perspective or a bad news perspective? BB, Calgary