September 22, 2025

Ms. Unglesby was my fifth-grade teacher at Georgia Tucker Elementary in Monroe, Louisiana, who told my mother in one of those Parent/Teacher conferences, "Jimmy looks out the window a lot."

Jimmy still does. He carries the window with him wherever he goes. And takes photographs of what he sees to share with those who couldn't be there, then.

And, as with the image above, he mostly sees tranquility, serenity, peace and harmony, because that is what attracts him and what he looks for, because he doesn't have enough of those things in his life and goes in search of them to stabilize his world and enable him to find his way to who he is and what he is to be about.

Jimmy has discovered that he shares this, you might say "Schtick," of his with the Buddha, who summed up Buddhism with the simple and easily remembered phrase, "Peaceful abiding, here, now."

That's all it comes down to. This is where all living things come to life, by peacefully abiding, here, now. It is what we all are looking for, hoping to find. And it is all "right there" for those with eyes to see, looking, as we do, out the windows of our life, that we might be safe and serene, here and now, at last. No?