There are two things standing in the way of happiness all the time and ever after: Caring and Wanting.
When we stop caring about and wanting the wrong things all, of our troubles disappear like that (snaps fingers).
Figure out your Wanting/Caring ratios and you have it made.
Stop wanting Trump to grow up, for instance. Don’t care if he is making things terrible for everyone not a billionaire, and your day is lighter, brighter already (And like what good does all your angst do for any situation anyway?)
Glad to be of help, any time.
Speaking of being of help, any time, allow me to encourage you to use my photos as places of refuge and retreat through these times. Do an internet search for my name and all the places my images are available (ClickASnap, for instance) 24/7. Or how’s this for instance, you know your favorite images? I’m totally serious here: Take screenshots of all of them. Print them out on your printer. Hang them on your wall. Load them on you cell phone. Take your refuge/retreat with you wherever you go. Contemplate the images. Meditate on the images. Allow the images to work their eternal magic on your system/Psyche all the time everywhere. Don’t go disarmed and unprepared into any situation in any day!
All of my photographs offer refuge and retreat to anyone who cares to see them as sources of peace and tranquility, serenity and sanity in all times and places. Drop into the silence any time any place and use your favorite image as a portkey to calm and carefree and you are on you way to balance and harmony like that (snaps fingers). And you would be wrong to not take me. up on this.
On a Mac, you can take a screen shot with Shift/Command/5 and you get handy little handles to control exactly what portion of the screen you capture. Save it to where you want it. Copy and past it to anywhere and you are set for life. What a deal. You are now armed for anything all the time, taking your refuge with you wherever you go.
Tell your friends. Sanity freebies, yours for the taking, Yippie-woopie.
Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy 