Author Archives: jimwdollar

Diversion, distraction, denial, addiction help us pass the time. The Buddha called it “Peaceful abiding, here, now.” Being still and quiet, seeing what emptiness, stillness and silence have to offer. Contemplating what’s called for and what needs to be done about it where, when and how, doing the right thing, at the right time, inContinue reading “June 15, 2026”

I wonder if there is a Wild Thing anywhere that likes its chances. That feels good about its prospects. That ever thinks it has a cushion. Which is interesting because I am confident that every Wild Thing everywhere is 100% at one with Tao, Psyche and Intuition. Which is all Wild Things have going forContinue reading “June 14, 2026 – C”

I grew up, as did we all, among people making the best of it, of their life and their living conditions, they all could have used more help than they got–and could have been more helpful than they were. And yet, here we are, even so, even yet, even here, now. Things were right-enough forContinue reading “June 14, 2026 – B”

It helps if we are easier to please. Lower expectations make a difference. Stepping into the day with a camera and no pictures in mind, ready to find the best compositions available given the light and weather conditions–with no stipulations regarding either lighten’s the days load and gives us a better chance of being happyContinue reading “June 14, 2026”

Spending enough time in the right kind of silence is essential for knowing what we know. When we live noisy, complex, complicated lives, we are too busy to listen to our body. Our body knows. When we know what our body knows, we know what’s what and what is called for here, now. And weContinue reading “June 13, 2026 – B”

Listening to ourselves is the secret to being lucky and having it made. We are always talking to ourselves, mainly complaining, whining, wanting, wanting, wanting. We would do well to start listening. Making inquiries. Being interested in what we have to say. Why would we die never having heard what we are dying to talkContinue reading “June 13, 2026”

I would like to conduct exit interviews with people worldwide to see if they think life is worth the effort. And I would like to conduct those interviews with populations who lived in different centuries throughout time. I would like to spend eternity talking to people. I would be particularly interested to see how humorContinue reading “June 12, 2026”

I am amazed at my flip from going anywhere to take a photograph to being perfectly content to sit looking out the window with a computer filled with images I have taken in my lap and being completely disinterested in going anywhere for any reason. It is as though I have placed myself in solitaryContinue reading “June 11, 2026 – C”

Peace, stillness, emptiness, silence, quiet, just being there, here, now. Go there often. Remain there long. Better advice would be hard to find.