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

walk report: -13C/9F, stiff wind in our face coming back, surprisingly good traction, Gusta found a fresh blanket of snow is a roadmap maze, all tracks, no rabbit

Saturday was a day of great satisfaction and relaxation; last night we saw The Bank Job (much better than the reviews) to cap a day of hangin’ with Carla and PB, dinner with my dad and smiling at my situation; existential discussion, shopping, casual conversation, deep, shallow, deep again; child of mine Carla will always be, but child no more - already far more grounded a woman than I might have reasonably expected or wished for, which swells me with pride, satisfaction and peace of mind

fueled by intention, innovation is ‘new way to do something’ or new way to use a tool – not invention but practical inventiveness; relationships of people, events, ideas and how things connect confound me; perhaps DNA research will one day reveal why some people and ideas connect as others languish, explain myself to me - or yourself to you, so we can all understand how zeal to create magical experience is formed

things that relate and connect to one another, like dominoes tip over, create Rube Goldberg-like chain reactions, completing as if there was some master plan, even when there was no plan at all – not so often with actions as they do with ideas, completing when feelings rest comfortably in appropriate corners of my mind

infectious innovation and creativity infect us when they spread, virus-like; some people get them, some don’t, no rhyme, no reason, no easy explanation; some people respond to invitation, rise to challenge, step over dotted-lines or slip comfortably into new roles – make room for more in any mind

antidote to the ‘could have, would have, should have’ of life - reveling in how exciting it has been and how powerful it yet can be - innovation is all about risking; risking success, risking failure, risking new experience, risking being dissatisfied with what arrives instead of standing still where the far greater risk is dissatisfaction with sameness

innovation is to creativity as pleasure is to satisfaction, as value is to worth – close, yes, but no comparison; early morning solitude, time for quiet reflection, is mostly about being alone, yet alone does not equal lonely

reflecting on experiences past or passed by, on problems solved, on ill-logic of challenges and life itself – as I sip coffee in the dark - I am sitting on a mountainside or walking a beach somewhere, re-hashing some tangent of thought without resolution – with a smile, with pride, satisfaction and peace of mind

Mark Kolke
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