Author Archives: jimwdollar

01 Letting the situation elicit, evoke, our response to it instead of forcing a predetermined way of acting on it based on what we want to achieve is not conducive to the balance, harmony and flow of the situation and its possibilities. We cannot have a formula in mind for producing the life we wantContinue reading “May 07, 2022”

01 We need a base, anchoring us, providing stability, balance and harmony amid the upheavals and uncertainty of social and political unrest. Where do you go in time of trouble? The right kind of emptiness (Like the emptiness between breaths), stillness and silence do it for me. I close myself off from the noise, complexityContinue reading “May 05, 2022”

01 Something knows where to put the tripod. Or did, back when I used a tripod. Now, something knows where to stand, how to compose the image, when to take the picture. I don’t think about any of this. I simply listen for “Yes/No,” “Here/There,” “Now/Later”… It all begins with what catches my eye. IContinue reading “May 04, 2022”

01 We don’t see anything just as it is. Everything carries our projection of itself “as it is to us” for us to inspect, examine and admire, or detest, in a “Just as I thought” kind of way. We see what we expect to see, and are rarely surprised, merely affirmed. And the few surprisesContinue reading “May 03, 2022”

01 What is stopping us from becoming neglected, abandoned, betrayed? We are the guardians of ourselves. We are the champions of our bodies, our lives. We owe fealty to our original nature and the virtues that are ours from birth. No knight in shinning armor’s oath of liege loyalty and filial devotion was greater thanContinue reading “May 02, 2022”