Category Archives: 06/25/2020

I Googled it. There have been 267 popes in 20 centuries. That is about 40 popes per century. There were 4 centuries when the Church of Rome (and the other Orthodox Christian Churches which were in the background) was basically calling the shots for 400 years about what was Orthodox Christianity and what was not.Continue reading “August 08, 2025”

We take the wrong things too seriously, no? It is one of the hardest things, living in ways appropriate to the occasion.I think that means we are in too much of a hurry too much of the time.We jump to conclusions and rush to judgment and fail to take our time some more again everyContinue reading “August 07, 2025”

Signing with the Photo Agency was my most brilliant move to datein that it forces me to relive all the old photographs. My life with the craft began in 1997, or 8, or 9.It began with me telling my congregation in Batesville, Mississippi, “Don’t send me to the Holy Land” (Which is something congregations sometimesContinue reading “August 06, 2025”

Reflection leads to realization. This was Joseph Campbell’s Buddha impersonation. The heart, soul, foundation of enlightenment is reflection leading to realization.Enlightenment is not a steady state of being. It is one step after another all the way to here, now. There is no destination. There is no place to be other than here, now. OnceContinue reading “August 05, 2025”

Our presence can be restorative, healing, uplifting, encouraging, comforting, etc. just by the way we carry, present, share ourselves with the world.It isn’t a matter of trying, but of being–without being aware of being any way at all.”Just being ourselves,” “present as one thus come,” as the Buddha and Jesus did it. But this meansContinue reading “August 04, 2025”

This is a photograph of a postcard I took in the mid-eighties when we were living in Amory, Mississippi. Amory was built as a railroad town, halfway between Memphis and Birmingham, with a wheel house for repairs on locomotives, and it had a train flair with postcards and train fare in restaurants and shops, andContinue reading “August 03, 2025”

As extensions of The One,we all are The One,and can easily rely upon the power of The One to be all we needto rise to meet whatever comes our wayalong the way.The power of The Oneresides in such thingsas good luck,curiosity,humor,good faith,resiliency,forthrightness,perspective,attitude,perception,projection,assumption,observation with detachment/disengagement,emptiness-stillness-silence,knowing where/when/how to draw lines,set limits,restrict unwarranted intrusions into our space/life,knowing whereContinue reading “August 02, 2025”

Wanting and not-wanting lead the way–and need to get out of the way so that we might knowwhat is called for in each situation as it arises, and do that, where, when and how it is called for,and let that be that until the next thing is called for, etc.How do we know what isContinue reading “July 31, 2025”

A statement floating around my corner of the internet is this:”Words are projections.” That’s a stunning jolt to all of our worlds. I believe it to be so because how can we get outside of our experience in order to evaluate our experience and validate what we presume to be so? Thus, what we thinkContinue reading “July 29, 2025”