November 12, 2025

Orange Orchids — The Orchid Collection
The flow between how things are and how things need to be is the sine non qua for life in the Cosmos. When the flow is in sync between Mover and Moved, all is in harmony, balanced and at peace. At the far extreme, there is discord and division, chaos and dismay upon "the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea." And yet, if we step back far enough, everything comes together as the stars in the heavens on a "stary stary night," beautifully "at one," though more apparent than real. This is the work of Yin/Yang--the underlying tension keeping all things together though apart like ice skaters on the ice, seemingly coordinated though each is doing their own thing. 

This makes life and being optical illusions from beginning to end. Look and it is This. Look again and it is That. Is it This Way or That Way? It all depends on who is looking, when and where. The creative tension is at work in all things--breathing in and breathing out, movement never ceasing, all things in process, being and becoming and ceasing to be, while the only constant thing is the flow between things, making being in the flow the ideal place to be at all times, in all places, world without end. Yet, who can maintain a balance that fine? Only nature without trying without striving, just being the flow at work in all things at all times, humming along with the AUM of universal being and the harmony of the spheres, at the optimal distance from everything, wanting nothing more than being at one with all that is here, now. Here, Now. HERE, NOW... Always and forever. No? Yes!

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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