Musing

today’s Musing written and published from south Calgary, near Fish Creek Park

walk report: -6C/20F, overcast/ice-fog, light dusting of snow, just enough to obscure every icy patch, but we found them anyway; Gusta happy romping in the yard, munching a frozen bone when she takes a break, then repeating wind-sprints like they are first time events

so often a new day or week brings so much opportunity for draining dull repetition, reminding us that fresh original is more exciting than an old copy; fresh idea, fresh thought – rarely fresh or original - just new to me in their current form; thoughts to dwell on, thoughts arrive fresh at brain’s door – not so much fresh as they are survivors

I sold a short ‘survivor’ piece last week – an old piece re-worked, pasted together with a new beginning and end – ideas now renewed, freshness substituted for originality

thoughts we’ve not encountered before have likely been run through the strainer of thousands of better minds many thousands of times, not new, quite old really - tried though not necessarily true, until tried by you and me, until worn through by you and me they are fresh . . as fresh as Monday morning though Monday morning seems to be as old as the concept of a week which makes it pretty hold, so I wonder how it could be fresh

fresh means new days, unspoiled hours - fresh is new, the opposite of stale, tired, old, used etc.; fresh foods, fresh air, fresh start, fresh adventure, fresh conflict, fresh challenge, fresh ideas

like a recipe or a morning walk, each something I start - with my fingerprint on it - is as truly original and likely to be fresh as each snowflake, many thousands of times, every Monday, every day, fresh whenever I want it to be

Mark Kolke
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