January 18, 2024 – A

Posted byjimwdollarPosted in06/25/2020
The Kite at Cape Hatteras National Seashore 10/27/2011 — Ocracoke Island, North Carolina
An image in this collection--
or in any collection--
that draws your attention, 
catches your eye,
inviting a closer look,
and the words in the list 
that follows
are ready subjects
for meditation,
contemplation,
reflection,
and as such,
serve as portkeys,
thresholds,
doorways to new realizations
and new ways of living:

Balance and harmony,
emptiness, stillness, silence,
integrity, sincerity, spontaneity,
original nature,
innate virtues/attributes,
noise, complexity, trauma, drama,
questions, meditation, contemplation, 
reflection,
realization.

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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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