Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Death Valley Photographers — Zabriskie Point, Death Valley National Park, California
We find our way by asking the questions that beg to be asked and saying the things that cry out to be said. Reflection, realization and recognition lead the way. And we find our way to where we need to be, doing what is called for, day by day, all the way.
The answers reside in the questions that expose previous answers as the frauds they are ("Every answer is the step on the way to better questions"). And knowing what we need to know leads us to asking what we need to ask, and doing what we need to do, in each situation as it arises, all our life long.
What needs to be asked, known, seen, done here, now? That's all we need to know and do here, now, in every here, now that comes along. Being students of the moment makes us students for life. Moment to moment, all the way.
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
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 