July 18, 2024 – A – Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy

**Moraine Lake Mirror — Banff National Park, Alberta, Canadian Rockies**

Making the world a better place 
is quite beyond any of us.
It is out of our hands.
We would do well to settle
for making ourselves a better place.

That is well within our reach, but.
We have to lay aside our wants, desires,
aspirations, dreams of conquest and domination...

We cannot go the Adam and Eve route,
striving for what we have no business having.

Living within our means
and doing what can be done
with our original nature,
our inherent virtues
(The things we do best
and enjoy doing most),
and our intrinsic intuition
to work with
in each situation as it arises
throughout the time left for living
would do an amazing amount of good.

Let's agree to do it
starting here, now.

What do you say?

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. View more posts