February 01/ 2025

**Price Lake Canoes — Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina**

The way of wild things
is always what it needs to be,
how, when and where it needs to be.

Wild things do not interfere
with what needs to happen,
with what is called for
in each situation as it arises,
by inserting their own agenda,
plans, wishes and desires
into the mix
and insisting on their way NOW
regardless of the impact and outcomes.

It took civilization to make that possible.

And, now that it is possible,
it's anyone's guess about how long it will be
before someone with the power at hand
uses it to blow up the world
just because they can.
People are that way.

Wild things would never consider it.

That is only one thing I love about them.

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