August 12, 2024 – A – Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy

**Half Dome in the Merced River — Yosemite National Park, California**

I wonder how we are ever going to make this right.
This world I'm talking about.
Greed, money and power wield tight control.
Caring nothing about what they do
in an "If a profit can be made,
a profit will be made" kind of way.

I think the only solution to the situation
is to let it burn itself out,
destroying civilization as it exists, 
maybe by way of environmental disaster,
maybe by way of atomic holocaust,
and maybe by way of world-wide economic collapse.

However we choose to exit the playing field,
it will open the way for nature to take over
and restore order and common sense 
to the way things work.

A break from greed and chaos will be welcomed
by all living things.
And it can't happen too soon
or last long enough.

And all the natural world said, "Amen!"

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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