January 06, 2026

The Beaver Pond — Bass Lake, Blue Ridge Parkway, Blowing Rock, North Carolina

Beaver’s have a way of life that runs afoul of Park Rangers and that was the end of beavers along the Parkway. If you are in the way, you are soon to be out of the way, just for doing what you are built to do and what you have always done. Life is that way. Those in charge and in control do it their way.

And this segues nicely into the Tao and the way of doing what needs to be done be done, when, where and how it needs to be done being the way nature does it throughout the Cosmos, and how when we cooperate with nature natural things have a better life than when artificial rules are imposed to satisfy appearances or preferences that have nothing to do with honoring and maintaining the natural order of, say the tides and the routes of rivers and the migration patterns of elk and rain deer and the habits of beavers and honey bees.

When money decides how things are done, things take a turn for the worse for the ways of nature, and eventually for the ways of everything else, because “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.” For the good of those with money and power and a yen for having their way NOW!

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.

4 thoughts on “January 06, 2026

  1. I hope you had a great birthday. I’m sure you had a rocking party with lots of love from everyone. Keep going, my friend. You are appreciated and needed.

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  2. I hope you had a great birthday. I’m sure you had a rocking party with lots of love from everyone. Keep going, my friend. You are appreciated and needed.

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  3. I hope you had a great birthday. I’m sure you had a rocking party with lots of love from everyone. Keep going, my friend. You are appreciated and needed.

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  4. My wife and I went for dessert at the French bakery down the street for a quiet celebration with coffee and macaroons. And no one knew we were there. Perfect. Being invisible has its pluses.

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