Author Archives: jimwdollar

Knowing what is called for here, now, and doing it where, when and how it needs to be done in each situation as it arises is all that can be asked of any of us. Not what do we want? Not are we happy? Not what is expected of us? But, Is this what isContinue reading “June 29, 2026”

Albert Einstein held that energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed or converted. Meaning, I take it, that death is not death, but transformation, conversion, resurrection, and the energy that is life goes on forever celebrating one form of existence after another, making the Universe/Cosmos, not a burial ground, but a grand party thatContinue reading “June 28, 2026 – B”

How about we settle for what’s what here and now? How about we let this be it? No more striving, wanting, having to have this or that or that over there? Just letting this be it? How about we just let this be it? At 2:00 O’clock this afternoon, I had two cups of coffeeContinue reading “June 27, 2026”

Maintaining our presence in the here, now is being aware of what’s what and what is called for by maintaining our balance and inner harmony throughout our present experience with the clashing rocks and heaving waves on the wine dark sea of our daily life in a “What’s new, we have seen it all before,”Continue reading “June 26, 2026 – B”

How are we justifying our existence today? I am justifying my existence by being aware of it. By being aware of existing. By seeing what I look at and listening to what I am hearing, and paying attention to what’s what, and knowing what is called for and doing what I can do about itContinue reading “June 26, 2026”

If you go there looking for this, you won’t find it. Hurricanes and tropical storms reshape the landscape annually as “circumstances beget circumstances,” and everything finds its way day-to-day, letting “Today’s own trouble be sufficient for today.”

Knowing what to do with the time left for living is a matter of dropping into emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing not three) and “Waiting for the mud to settle and the water to clear” (Old Taoist saying), in order to know what’s what, what’s happening, what’s called for here, now–and doing that where, whenContinue reading “June 25, 2026 – B”

I wrote the following 23 years ago: “What do we have to do whether we want to or not? What would we do whether we got paid for it or not? What would we do whether it were easy or not? What would we do even though there is, apparently, nothing in it for us?Continue reading “June 25, 2026”

We have to make our peace with our life throughout our life. Making our peace with having to constantly be making our peace is, itself, an important piece of our being able to make our peace as necessary without warning all the way from start to finish. It is upheaval and disruption on the heavingContinue reading “June 24, 2026”

The river does not have a way. The river finds a way. Be the river.

My father reacted to me and I reacted to my father and we both could have done a lot better. And we both need to acknowledge that about ourselves to each other and simply allow that truth to be a part of our individual makeup, and let it go. And this is so with wayContinue reading “June 23, 2026”