Author Archives: jimwdollar

We all are searching, more or less desperately, for some reason to be here, for some compelling, driving force pulling us into and driving us through our life. Our life is–and has to be– a vehicle of LIFE! An experience of LIFE! A path to LIFE! Our life has to bring us to LIFE! WhenContinue reading “August 22, 2023 – A”

This photograph reflects an abiding truth of life: Luck–also called “Grace”–is the foundation of life. An hour earlier or later and this photo isn’t there. Every photograph is like that, we walk into a scene with a camera and greet what greets us there as a sheer coincidence of grace/luck and timing. In five minutesContinue reading “August 21, 2023 – B”

Fascism and democracy have been at war from the start. Fascism is fear, hatred, anger, greed, ruthlessness trying to find safety and security by killing everyone not fascist. Democracy is grace, kindness, justice, truth, peace trying to find a place where people can freely be who they are without threatening anyone. Amazing how difficult thatContinue reading “August 21, 2023 – A”

Acceptance comes in three phases: Accommodation. Acquiescence. Adaptation. Which require/flow from having no opinion about whatever comes our way and no attachment to any outcome or undertaking. We do what needs us to do it the way it needs to be done, when and where it needs to be done, with the same relationship withContinue reading “August 20, 2023 – A”

It comes down to, flows from, amounts to, shakes out as, nothing more than hermeneutics. Hermeneutics is interpretation. Perspective. Attitude. Comprehension. Understanding. Enlightenment. Seeing what we look at. Seeing how we are looking at it. Knowing what’s what, and what is called for in response to it, and what that means for us, personally, hereContinue reading “August 19, 2023 – A”

I’ve sold all of my proper camera gear and will take the photos I take with my cell phone, and spend my time going through 70,000 + images on compact disks to see what I can find hiding there. It has been apparent for a while that this was necessary and inevitable. I could noContinue reading “August 18, 2023 – B”

We should be like ourselves, caring what we care about, loving what we love, enjoying what we enjoy, doing what needs to be done the way only we can know and do that. That’s the way real people do it. They are themselves doing it the way they would do it. In order to beContinue reading “August 18, 2023 – A”

Who is better off because of you? In what ways? How does your generosity and kindness, compassion and grace, manifest themselves in the lives of others? In the life of someone else? Who do you think about other than yourself? Who are the people who are safe in your presence? Who do you care for?Continue reading “August 17, 2023 – A”

We most need to hear what we most have to say. How often do we listen to what we are saying, and, more importantly, to HOW we are saying it? What subjects do we pursue? Return to? What do we repeat? Time after time? How often do we hear ourselves saying something new? Something weContinue reading “August 16, 2023 – A”

How we see what we look at, how we look at what we see, determines, or strongly influences, what we do about what we see/look at. What are we serving/seeking, trying to do, hoping to achieve, avoid, get to, go? What makes us think it is worth doing/having? What is worth our time/attention? How doContinue reading “August 15, 2023 – B”

We cannot fix/change/improve/etc. anyone without their permission. Psychotherapy comes to grief upon this. And yet, we all grow up against our will. If we grow up at all. And yet, we do change our mind about what’s important. So we keep saying what is so and letting nature take its course. I wish I hadContinue reading “August 15, 2023 – A”

We are made for wonder. Wonder is the reason we are here. Wonder is all there is. We are here to look around and admire the beauty and the wonder. The ground/foundation of existence is wonder. We go to the moon–for what? For the wonder of it. The joy of it. The WOW! Period. ThereContinue reading “August 14, 2023 – A”