Author Archives: jimwdollar

I never stayed in the Num-Ti-Ja Lodge, but. I would like to have stayed there, and in all of the lodges in the Canadian Rockies, and to have discovered all of the tripod positions there, and to have taken all the photographs that could be taken there, through all of the seasons of all ofContinue reading “April 01-B, 2023”

We know when the cobber is done and when it is over-done and when it is not done. We know when we are on the beam and when we are off it. We know when our heart is in what we are doing, and when it is not. We have all it takes to findContinue reading “April 01-A, 2023”

There is nothing wrong with us that having a trustworthy sounding board wouldn’t fix. Clarity is everything. The Buddha’s Eight Fold Path can be reduced to two: Right Seeing and Right Doing. Clarity enables both of them. Of course, the Buddha’s word for clarity is Enlightenment. Enlightenment is clarity, is realization, understanding, comprehension, knowing… TheContinue reading “March 31-A, 2023”

The people who so proudly take it on faith that everything in the Bible is so, because it is proof of their celestial worthiness and the quality of their faith to do so, are quick to toss faith aside from there on, and speak not of what they believe to be so, but of whatContinue reading “March 30-B, 2023”

Trusting ourselves to our original nature and our innate virtues/specialties is the grounding principle of our existence. We are one with ourselves or, we are split off from ourselves, divided within, without guidance or direction, lost in the wasteland of discontent. The way out of the wilderness is the way of deep listening to ourselves–toContinue reading “March 30-A, 2023”

If you take something, anything, on faith, you can’t say that’s the way it is– it is the way you believe it is. The distance between the way things are and the way we believe they are, and the way we wish they were, is the distance between here/now and the other side of theContinue reading “March 29-A, 2023”