February 22, 2026

Mt. Moran in Oxbow Bend — Grand Teton National Park, Jackson, Wyoming

I don’t put much stock in what someone else says, so I don’t expect anyone to put much stock in what I say. What we have to say is more help to us than to someone else, I think, in that it reflects us to ourselves, like looking into a mirror, so that we know who we are at that particular time and place, and can reflect on it, examine it, inspect it and see if it is an accurate expression, exhibit, of what we think and where we stand and who we are at that particular time in our life, giving us something of a time-place marker for our way through our life. And perhaps benefiting us from a future vantage point as a way of gauging our progress or just reminding us of who we were “back then” and comparing that to “who we are” in the future.

I have finished three volumes of the “200 Zen Thoughts by Jim Dollar” series posted on my WordPress site, and they will stay up there until I publish them on Amazon Kindle, when I will have to take them down as a part of my author deal with Amazon.

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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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