April 18, 2026

Dune Walker — Mesquite Dunes, Death Valley, California

The Four Pillars of Democracy are Liberty, Justice, Equality, Truth. Trump doesn’t care about, and much less stands for, any of them. And 77 million people voted for him. More than half of the people we pass by every day voted for him, and have no place in their life for the Four Pillars of Democracy. That puts Democracy in peril. More than half of us don’t care at all for Liberty, Justice, Equality, Truth. We cannot be counted on to care about the quality of life of fellow Americans nation wide. We are lost in distraction, diversion, denial, sex, drugs and alcohol. We need to sit in emptiness, stillness, silence and wait for the mud to settle and theh water to clear in order to know what’s what, what is called for and what needs to be done about it with the gifts of our Original Nature, Innate Virtues (The things we do best and enjoy most), Inherent Intuition, and Intrinsic Imagination. The future of the world and each of us depends on our knowing who we are and what we are about, and living in the service of those things every day for the rest of our life.

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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