October 14, 2025

Cypress Geese — Private Pond, Down East, North Carolina
I got up early enough to drive an hour and a half to be there for sunrise. Watch me do that again today, ha!

“All we ever wanted was smooth and easy,” said Ogi Overman, explaining the foundation of alcoholism. If that is the cause, the cure is simple as doing what is called for when, where and how it is called for with no fanfare, bucking, snorting moaning, complaining, whining, shouting, stomping, sobbing… Just get up and change the baby’s diaper or take the dog outside, etc., and do it well, do it right.

That’s all it takes. No kidding. Life comes down to doing what needs to be done the way it needs to be done no matter what all our life long. If we can adjust ourselves to that, we have it made.

P.S. Adjusting ourselves to that is called “Growing Up.” Growing up is all it takes.

Why is that so hard?

If MAGA members would only grow up! Right?

How many MAGA members are also members of AA? Or need to be?

The logical extension of this trend is the realization that how we see things is how things are–or may as well be for all the difference it makes in the way the world works, no?

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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