Author Archives: jimwdollar

Asking the questions that beg to be asked and saying the things that cry out to be said are the foundation of realization. If we aren’t digging, digging, digging into all the assumptions, commonplaces, expectations, things taken for granted, sacred presumptions, and holy ground, within and without, we are going to serve the same oldContinue reading “May 08-A, 2023”

“Government of the people, by the people, for the people,” has a nice ring to it, but. It won’t pay the bills– particularly the kind of bills Clarence Thomas and members of Congress like to ring up. The motto has to be tweaked a bit to get it right: “Government of the Corporations, by theContinue reading “May 06-B, 2023”

The black trunks in the image are the trees’ attempt to heal themselves where elk have peeled away and eaten bark in the winter months. Both trees and elk are doing their best with what they have to work with to make things work as well as they can. You and I are right inContinue reading “May 06-A, 2023”

When Carl Jung was asked if he believed in God, he replied: “I do not believe. I know.” I would have said, “I do not believe in believing.” “God” as we have been taught of “God” exists only as the production/projection of human beings, forced onto us by an orthodox priesthood with their livelihood atContinue reading “May 05-B, 2023”

What stirs your interest? Piques your curiosity? Ignites your passion? Catches your eye? Calls your name? Encourages your participation? How many of those things are in a day? A week? A month? How can you restructure your life to include more of those things in your days, weeks, months? If you are plodding through tooContinue reading “May 05-A, 2023”

The worst thing that ever happens to us can also be among the best things that ever happens to us. Our worst experiences can be our best experiences. Bad can also be good. Good can also be bad. Things are not one way only. We have to expand our mind to take into account theContinue reading “May 04-B, 2023”

There is nothing we cannot deny. Denial keeps us where we are. If it weren’t for denial, where might we be? Denial is a superpower in a negative sense. Recovering alcoholics know about the power of denial– and the power of looking denial in the eye, facing the truth of the legitimate pain of life,Continue reading “May 04, 2023 – A”

The culture/the world is in hot pursuit of the perfect means With no idea of an end worthy of it. I wish I remembered the name of the photographer who said, “The more equipment you have, the fewer pictures you take.” Fine clothes and tattered lives. We draw the wrong lines in the wrong places.Continue reading “May 03, 2023 -B”

Meeting the day without expectations, agendas, opinions, intentions, demands, attitudes, judgments, plans, designs, programs, and ideas for the way things should be, is to be ready for anything, except, perhaps, a test on any of the above. To walk unprepared into the day, just as we are, as ones thus come, waiting to see whatContinue reading “May 03, 2023 – A”