Author Archives: jimwdollar

I am delighted that I got my going days done when it was time for going! It is a good thing that I did not wait until now! Grocery shopping is about it these days, which leaves me with time to re-process images I took in my not-so-long-ago, and to consider how much the daysContinue reading “March 17, 2025”

I understand that astronomers are discussing a new theoryproposing that our universe is contained in a black hole that is contained in another universe. We may live in stacked universes and black holes, perhaps infinitely deep, broad, expansive. Everything we think we know has to be re-thought. Meaning we have to come to terms withContinue reading “March 16, 2025”

Drop out, drop in is the recipe for balance and harmony on the heaving waves of the wine-dark sea.Dropping out of the here, now with its noise, clamor, chaos and terminal insanity, and dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence to regroup, recharge and recover is the most brilliant strategy ever devised for reorienting ourselves, regrouping andContinue reading “March 15, 2025”

Native Americans have been experiencing atrocity, cruelty and inequity since 1492. And People of Color have been subjected to it for as long as there have been white people.Without recourse, protest, renunciation, repudiation. They just had to take it. For centuries.This is beyond redemption, recompense, amends and compensation.This is a horror we have to bearContinue reading “March 14, 2025”

We disappear pain and suffering and Donald Trump by changing our mind about our relationship with all three. The way we look at things determines what we see when we look. Seeing differently changes everything we look at. We do not have to respond emotionally about anything in our environment. We ascribe meaning to everything,Continue reading “March 14, 2025 – B”

We draw our lines firmly but without rancor. There are people with us herewithout good faith,and they are doing terrible damage,as Rumi knew people were doing in his day.And we have no control over those people.About them, the best I can say is thatif they could do better, perhaps they would.Be that as it may,Continue reading “March 13, 2025”

If we aren’t doing what we know must be donebecause to fail to do so would be to betrayourselves and our deep sense of what is rightand essential to us being true to ourselvesand failing to live in filial devotionand liege loyalty to our own center,and our grounding sense of direction and purpose,we are offContinue reading “March 12, 2025”

So much needs to be changed for the better!It is overwhelming in a So What? Who Cares? Why Try?kind of way.The trick is to not care about our chances.To not care about the odds.To not care about any of the things telling us to not care.And to sit with nature–with the natural world–on a regularContinue reading “March 11, 2025”

I have realized that we cannot discern the difference between where we stop and our experience of ourselves, our life, the world around us starts. There is no objective vantage point from which we can gauge/determine the validity/truthfulness of any experience we have, or of any statement about the validity of any experience.Everything is ourContinue reading “March 10, 2025 – B”

You are the closest thing to Jesusthat a lot of people will ever get.You are also the closest thing to Buddhathat a lot of people will ever get.So throw out theology, sin, redemption,doctrine, dharma, dogma, creeds, prayers of confession,and related paraphernalia.It is all unnecessary, beside the point and in the way.All we need is theContinue reading “March 10, 2025”