Author Archives: jimwdollar

Nature is doing its thing. We are doing our thing. Circumstances are begetting circumstances, as the old Taoists observed 5,000 years BCE, and no one is in charge. There is no plan. No purpose. There is only the experience of life, living, being alive. We get to choose the shape our experience takes, but noContinue reading “June 30, 2026”

When I sit thinking about what is called for and what I can do about it, ice cream often finds its way into the equation. Whenever it does, I am glad to oblige. I call it doing my part. Naps also come around quite often, usually daily. I consider my expertise with either beyond theContinue reading “June 29, 2026 – B”

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”