February 08, 2026

Great Blue Heron — The Bog Garden, Greensboro, North Carolina

We wake up each day to the adventure of seeing what the day has in store for us, wondering what awaits. Unless we are bound to a daily schedule, a monthly regimen, a sacred yearly routine we call “going to work.” In which case, we have to live around our obligations, duties, requirements, looking forward to sleeping late over the weekend, squeezing in what joys and delights we can manage after working hours and on holidays. Drudgery. Hum-drum. Tedium. Wondering how we can find life in our lives.

Escapes can be everywhere awaiting vision and imagination via Emptiness! Silence! Stillness! Drop into the quiet and see what meets us there after things settle down and the fairies have a chance at us to show us what we have been missing. The pixies and pucks know where the gold is hidden, and we only need give them the go-ahead to find the adventures awaiting on the far side of the everyday for those who are open to the game that is always afoot to the willing and the wondering. How long has it been?

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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