Author Archives: jimwdollar

How many people do you know who talk without saying anything worth thinking about or remembering? Social chatter consumes our lives. Hair salon talk. Bar talk. Church talk. Family reunion talk. Dinner party talk. The list is long. We spend a lot of time saying nothing. Hearing nothing. Wasting our life on things that don’tContinue reading “June 06, 2023 – A”

Nature, virtues, vitality. These are the three aspects of our life that have to be in sync for our life to be what it is capable of being. Notice that our external circumstances matter not one mote. We are capable of living anywhere, with anything as those who are true to their original nature, theirContinue reading “June 05, 2023 – A”

It occurs to me from time to time that we alone are responsible for our safety and well-being throughout what remains of the time that is ours upon the earth. We make the decisions/choices that produce the future that is ours to live, one decision/choice at a time. We each know–or could know, if weContinue reading “June 04, 2023 – A”

It is a mess everywhere I look, created and compounded by people trying to have their way and force it on other people. We all need a 50-year time out. We could start with one of any length. No one seems to take a time out any longer. Everything begins with and flows from timeContinue reading “June 03, 2023 – B”

I have over 1,000 images up on ClickASnap, and am particularly proud of my “Beach Erosion” Album there, depicting the destruction of nature by nature–which, it seems, is one of the things nature does very well–of the beaches at Botany Bay, on Edisto Island, and Hunting Island, both in South Carolina. Here is the ClickASnapContinue reading “June 03, 2023 – A”

The Joy of life and being is never more than a perspective shift away. It resides with seeing all things as being “transparent to transcendence” (Joseph Campbell), and knowing that we are capable of realizations that transport us to realms of joy and wonder, anyway, nevertheless, even so, no matter what. What something “is” toContinue reading “June 02, 2023”

Summer is a great time for seeking out the essence of vitality, joy, gladness and radiance of life– and obliging ourselves to its experience and service, with liege loyalty and filial devotion throughout the time left for living.

If we take the parables of the prodigal son and the good Samaritan seriously, hell has no place in our life– and purity (represented by the elder brother, and the people walking past) itself is a stumbling block, and Christianity has no foundation or reason for existence. So, there’s that. And spirituality is free toContinue reading “June, 2023”

Wu-We is action without deliberation. Doing that is not agenda directed. Spontaneous, not arranged. Jazz isn’t conducted. “It just happens.” Living that way is living in harmony with the moment, with the circumstances, with the time and place, conditions and context of our living. That said, a lot goes into “just being.” I drove toContinue reading “May 31-A, 2023”

We know more than we know we know, and we don’t want to know it because it would get in our way– it would get in our way of having our way. All we want is to have our way NOW!!! Knowing what we know puts an end to that. Knowing what we know meansContinue reading “May 30-A, 2023”

If we live long enough, we all come to the same realizations, the same truth. Those who know, know the same things. Those who don’t know are lost in the world of their own aspirations and desires, their wants and their will, incapable of perceiving what’s what and what needs to be done about itContinue reading “May 29-B, 2023”

Playing it straight up, living from the heart, no contriving, conniving, scheming, lying, deceiving, pretending, not being true to ourselves… is something we have to live our way into being truthful from the inside out. We cannot be truthful from the outside in– because someone tells us to. We can only be truthful because weContinue reading “May 29-A, 2023”