Author Archives: jimwdollar

The right kind of conversation is therapeutic,salvific, restorative, grounding, centering, revitalizing, awakening…to such an extent,that it is unfathomable that we devotesuch little time and effort in the workto develop our ability to converse with one anotherfrom the heart about things that matter.We talk about news, weather, sports, gossip, and drama.When do we get to theContinue reading “May 31, 2024 – A”

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I highly recommend imaginary conversationswith anyone you would like to talk to.And the more surprising what you sayand what they saythe better.Surprise gets us to the heart of the matter,which is always our perceptionof what’s what.If our perception isn’t changing,we aren’t changing.If we aren’t changing,we aren’t seeing things as they are.We are seeing things asContinue reading “May 30, 2024 – A”

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There is truth,and there is assumed/presumed(And where does that line lie?)truth.And there is inquiry intothe nature of truth,which is rarely explored,which is tragic,because truth is everyone’smethod of getting/serving what they want.Trump and his supportersdeclare the truth at every opportunity.Russia and China fill the worldwith the truth around the clock.Preachers declare the truthwithout pausing to breathe.EveryoneContinue reading “May 29, 2024 – B”

We all need the right combination of the same thingsin order to be who we are,doing what is ours to do.The birthing process goes on,and on, and on…throughout our life.We are always being born again for the first time.Always coming to life,finally, at last.Waking up to who we areand what our life needs of uswithinContinue reading “May 29, 2024 – A”

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We are seeking peacewith ourselves and with our life.The path to that end is simple:Stop wanting what you want,and start wanting what you ought to want instead!Start with sitting stilland being quiet,seeking the right kind ofemptiness/stillness/silence.Listening to yourself,to your body,to your life.Teach yourself to live in a quiet,attentive,looking/listening,seeing/hearing,kind of way.Check out Ann Wieser Cornell’sweb siteandContinue reading “May 28, 2024 – A”

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I have out-lived the desire to return to so many photo-worthy places,this being one.The images are worthy-enough remindersof what’s there–or was there–to connect me with what is everywherein all places for eyes that see.And, it takes sitting until we seeto see what we are looking atanywhere all the time.Do we take the time is theContinue reading “May 27, 2024 – A”

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Doing an internet search for”who put the bible together and when”does us the favor of moving the conversation away from”GOD,”and enables us to consider the question,”What did those Roman Catholic Menstand to gain from putting the Bible togetheras they did,in terms of ‘What to leave in and what to leave out?'”When we look at whatContinue reading “May 26, 2024 – B”

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I have said here beforethat my fifth grade teachertold my mother in one of thoseparent/teacher conferences,”Jimmy looks out the window a lot.”A lot of that was becauseJimmy was safer out the window.The adults in my life were intenton molding me after their image of me.So I withdrew without knowing what I was doinglike an oysterContinue reading “May 26, 2024 – A”

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Doing what needs to be done when, where and how it needs to be done,is the work that needs us to do itwith the gifts that are encoded in our DNA–but we don’t devote ourselves to that,and while away the hours daydreamingof smooth and easy,having our wayand getting what we want.Lethargy and laziness,fear and desire,haveContinue reading “May 25, 2024 – A”

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We have to get into the habitof taking stock,or call it “taking a reading,”or call it “tuning into our body,”and checking out with our bodywhat’s what,and how are things going,and what is our body feeling/responding/reactingto the things we are experiencingexternally and internally here/now? We let things “pass in review”–things outside of usand things inside ofContinue reading “May 24, 2024 – A”

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If we were only focused ondoing right by one another,what a sweet world it would be.What is so hard,inconvenient,undesireableabout that?Where does the vitriol come from?Whose idea is spite and viciousness?Why try to make life as miserable as we canfor everyone not like we are?I think we all should look in the mirrorfor as long asContinue reading “May 23, 2024 – A”

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There is wanting/striving/getting/having,and fearing/hiding/running/denying.And there is seeing/knowing/listening/hearing, and being who we need to beto do what needs to be done–and rising to meet the occasion,time after time.There is knowing what our business needs to beand taking care of our businessthe way our business needs taking care of.And there is the old golfer’s adage,”The more IContinue reading “May 22, 2024 – B”

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