Finding our place
within what is available
and what is permitted
and what is required
is a dance that goes on
throughout our life.
What we can get away with
changes with our context
and circumstances,
and they are always in flux
as the times are constantly a-changing.
War and natural disasters
create their own vortex,
impacting our world
in ways that demand transitioning
in mid-stride.
Being able to impose our will
and do what we want
isn't in the playbook,
but conferring
with the emptiness/stillness/silence
is always appropriate
to every occasion
in a "Okay, here we are, now what?"
kind of way.
Being able to listen
and take direction
are talents tailor-made for survival,
and we never out-grow their place
in growing up
and doing what must be done
here and now.
As the world gets crazier,
we have to become quieter
and increasingly centered/grounded
in our original nature
and the virtues/attributes
coded into our DNA,
as we adjust and readjust
to what is being asked of us
and handed to us
in the day-to-day dance with time and place.
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 