Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 What keeps us going is the joy of doing it and the satisfaction of having done it. And if we can’t say that, it is because we have lost the WOW!!! And have to get the WOW!!! back. We lose the WOW!!! mostly because of disappointed expectations. There ought to be a rule: NoContinue reading “June 16, 2022”

01 There are no shortcuts to where we are going. It’s one day at a time all the way. Of course, we can speed things up by seeing what we look at, hearing what we listen to, being aware of what we are dismissing, discounting, ignoring, knowing what we know, knowing what’s what, knowing whatContinue reading “June 15, 2022”

01 There are people who do their jobs the way they need to be done. There are people who live their lives the way they need to be lived. Start looking for them. There are more of them than you might think. And don’t forget to add yourself to your running tally of how manyContinue reading “June 14, 2022”

01 The Mystery at the heart of life and being Fis Life. Life is The Mystery. The source of life is life itself. Life is eternal, always, never ending, forever evolving, generating new life forms for any environment, accommodating itself to space and time, making merry, dancing, dancing, dancing, through all times and places. DeathContinue reading “June 11, 2022”

01 We look at our lives with tired eyes, and see the same old boring same old. We don’t believe anything will ever be new. “There is nothing new under the sun,” says the Old Testament. We know what it is talking about. The zest and hope have gone out of our lives. We areContinue reading “June 10, 2022”

01 The most ignorant thing is thinking that how we see things is how things are. How we see things is our interpretation of reality, of how things are. Alfred Korzybski and S.I. Hayakawa and others have explored the differences between our perceptions of reality and reality “just as it is” in their books onContinue reading “June 09, 2022”

01 We have aspirations, expectations, desires, which, when frustrated, or delayed, (which is often the same thing), lead to anxiety and/or depression, alcoholism, drug addiction and a long list of symptoms associated with these types of responses to our situation which began as a combination of aspirations, expectations and desires. We would be better offContinue reading “June 07, 2022”

01 I spend a lot of time looking out the window, though sitting in a canoe, or walking in the woods, or driving along the back roads are all equivalent ways of being occupied, allowing my thoughts to carry me wherever they go. It isn’t thinking. It is wandering among realizations and possibilities. Listening, looking,Continue reading “June 06, 2022”