jimwdollar

October 06, 2025

We build a life around ourselves simply by doing what needs to be done in each situation as it arises, when, where and how it needs to be done. The key in being able to hold the line against diversions, distractions and denial is maintaining our focus on the twin keys of wanting and caring.WeContinue reading “October 06, 2025”

October 05, 2025-B

If I were the/my/our Psyche, this is how I would present myself to the public. Without explanation. I call this image “Essence of Psyche.” Without explanation. How would you present your/my/our Psyche to the public? Present yourself and this question to your/my/our Psyche and see what comes.

October 05, 2005

Construction presupposes destruction. Destruction implies construction. Construction/destruction are not two things but one. Yin and Yang are not two things, but one. Light and dark. Right and wrong, Good and bad. All dualities are unities, combos, partnerships. It’s all one big mutuality seeking its partner in the dance of life and being. What help doContinue reading “October 05, 2005”

October 04, 2025

How well we live is how well we respond to our environment–how well we do what is called for in each situation as it arises. We live to do well with our life. To do right by our knacks and abilities and the gifts of our original nature, our innate imagination and inherent intuition. WeContinue reading “October 04, 2025”

October 03, 2025

There are two things standing in the way of happiness all the time and ever after: Caring and Wanting. When we stop caring about and wanting the wrong things all, of our troubles disappear like that (snaps fingers). Figure out your Wanting/Caring ratios and you have it made. Stop wanting Trump to grow up, forContinue reading “October 03, 2025”

October 02, 2025

I took the image of the daisy at Pike Nursery and disappeared the background in Photoshop just by asking it to “select subject,” and copy/pasted it to a black background. Then I asked Generative Fill in Photoshop to give me a “Swallowtail Butterfly” in the space I had drawn on the background, selected the oneContinue reading “October 02, 2025”

October 01, 2025

There is no difference, to my way of thinking, between heresy and reformation. Jesus was executed for heresy, but he was leading a reformation of the Jewish church of his day, not a rebellion against Roman occupation. The Romans could find no reason for executing him. They were doing the Jews a favor to putContinue reading “October 01, 2025”

October, 2025

A woman on a black Horse has been my metaphor for my intuition guiding, directing, me through my life, from where I am here, now to what is called for and what is calling me to do in each situation as it arises. I know it when I see it, sense it, the way IContinue reading “October, 2025”

September 30, 2025

Psyche and the Tao commune with each other,share a common language, and an environment that includes usin the work to be what is needed and do what is called forin each situation as it arises.We only need to get on board with themand bring our gifts–the things we do bestand enjoy doing most–to life inContinue reading “September 30, 2025”

September 29, 2025

I hired Tom Phillips, the Zen Master of Navajo Photography Guides in Monument Valley Navajo Tribal Park. My wife and I were crowded into the only seat of Tom’s pickup driving through the desert on the way to the first stop on Tom’s list of “Shooting Locations,” when we met a Navajo woman on aContinue reading “September 29, 2025”

September 28, 2025

Marianne Moore said, “The cure for loneliness is solitude.” Perspective shifts transform everything. Everyone thinks the way they see things is the way things are. Which makes magicians of us all. Just by changing the way we see things changes the way things are. The way we think becomes the magic wand disappearing moods andContinue reading “September 28, 2025”

September 27, 2025

It can get to be too much like that (snaps fingers), but.”It” is only a matter of perspective.All it takes is turning the light around.The trick to turning the light around is found in working withcaring and not-caring, wanting and not-wanting.We can care too much about the wrong things.We can want too much of theContinue reading “September 27, 2025”