March 24, 2025

Corner Room — Blowing Rock, North Carolina
I hope I spend my remaining years like I have spent my recent years. Which is to say that things are fine as they are. Content. Comfortable. At peace. Or, as the Buddha might say,
"Peaceful abiding, here, now."

I may have plenty to be anxious about with Trump at the helm,
but it's quite out of my control or even influence,
so I'm concentrating my energy on doing the things I enjoy
and letting time pass according to its own good pleasure.

I'm five chapters into my next book,
and I'm interested to see if I finish it in what remains to be lived. After that, if there is an after that, I will trust the road to carry me where it will. There has been plenty to like up to now, and I have no reason to expect the future to be much different that the past. And if it is, maybe I can find something to like there anyway.

I look forward to sharing the way with you all--lets see what we can do with what comes along!

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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