Author Archives: jimwdollar

05 Always the first response, regardless of what happens: “Well, now. What can we do with this?” Everything about our life is given to us so that we might play with it and see what we can make of it– of what we can become thanks to it. Everything is a vehicle for our ownContinue reading “October 12, 2020”

02 Trump is forever whining about how unfairly he is being treated. I take that to mean he thinks he should be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and be accorded the honor and admiration he thinks he deserves. Whatever he thinks, he recognizes the importance of fairness and bemoans not being granted his share. ItContinue reading “October 11, 2020”

04 The work is ours to do alone. Sitting. Listening. Looking. Seeing. Hearing. Feeling. Trusting. Risking. Doing. Being. Becoming. We grow up on our own. Against our will. Because it is called for. And is the best of all our available options. All that we have been told about how things are is not howContinue reading “October 10, 2020”

03 Waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear, it is important to exhibit the kind of stillness and confidence in the process that creates the atmosphere in which the mud can relax and trust itself to gravitational forces it cannot understand, but can allow to work its magic in assisting thingsContinue reading “October 09, 2020”

02 The most important commandment in the Old Testament didn’t make the top ten, though it lends itself to an interpretation that makes it #1 even there. Seeing “The Lord Thy God” in each of our neighbors would put “Thou shalt have no other gods before me” in the place of, as Jesus would say,Continue reading “October 08, 2020”

02 The old Taoists recommended that we “turn the light around,” and look inwardly for what we are seeking externally, which would be something worth living for. Some reason, some purpose, some meaning for it all. Life is its own meaning, but it takes realizing that and living as though it is so to turnContinue reading “October 06, 2020”

02 What would it take for you to be at peace with your life just as it is? Which includes doing what it takes to make your life more like it needs to be than it is. What does your life need to be that it isn’t? Where is your life deficient? Where is yourContinue reading “October 05, 2020”

02 Living from our own center with nothing at stake in the outcome is like singing in the shower, or dancing in the rain. It is a spontaneous, impromptu, improvisational response to our situation as it arises and opens before us, calling us to dance with life in becoming one with the moment and theContinue reading “October 04, 2020”