October 08, 2023 – A

Athabaska River and Pyramid Mountain 09/28/2009 — Jasper National Park, Alberta, Canadian Rockies
Beauty is both escape and immersion.
Both distraction/diversion and connection/alignment.
Anything is/can be all things.
Everything comes with manifold sides/aspects.
Reality is a shape shifting collection
of appearances/perceptions.
All it takes is looking
to see that it is so.

How we think things are
is always only how they seem to be.
Wait long enough before issuing
final judgment
and you will have a hard time
making up your mind.

"Real" is what appears to be real now.
Live a bit longer 
and things are not so clear.

Everything is in flux,
moving, changing, coming, going...

So, don't be a quick,
impulsive,
spur-of-the-moment suicide!
Bride! Groom! Mother! Father!

Take your time, wait it out.
Seek the insight 
found in emptiness,
stillness,
silence,
solitude
of vision quests
and walk-a-bouts.

Know what you don't know,
and wait until you do.

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Published by jimwdollar

I'm retired, and still finding my way--but now, I don't have to pretend that I know what I'm doing. I retired after 40.5 years as a minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, serving churches in Louisiana, Mississippi and North Carolina. I graduated from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Austin, Texas, and Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. My wife, Judy, and I have three daughters, five granddaughters, one great granddaughter, and a great grandson on the way, within about ten minutes from where we live--and are enjoying our retirement as much as we have ever enjoyed anything.

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