What would make the biggest difference for good in your life that is in your ability to effect? The one thing I can think of that would apply to all of us is emptiness, stillness, silence (One thing, not three) regularly applied frequently throughout the time left for living. Just sitting still, being quiet, watchingContinue reading “January 03, 2026”
Category Archives: The Church of What’s Happening Now
January 02, 2026
Redundancy is my shtick. Repetition keeps me on track. I know who I am by reminding myself of where my boundaries lie and what’s still what, slowly adding to the collection of life-long revelations over time. I cannot think of the last new thing, and have no idea of what that next new thing mightContinue reading “January 02, 2026”
January 01, 2026
Happy New Year! The blessing raises the question, “What is in charge of our happiness? Upon what does our happiness depend? Generally, upon things going our way. Raising the question: How flexible is “Our way”? How pliable? Supple? Malleable? Amenable? Accommodating? Adaptable? How easily do we “Make do” with how things are? With what weContinue reading “January 01, 2026”
December 31, 2025
Finding our way starts with where we are here, now, and with what we perceive our options to be. What are our assets? Our liabilities? Our choices? We might drop into the emptiness/stillness/silence with these questions and wait to see what occurs to us out of the silence. I am retired with no pressing responsibilitiesContinue reading “December 31, 2025”
December 30, 2025
This also exists as 57 of my WordPress Blog, “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” I heard the owl call my name: Who? Who? Who are you? What are you about? What is called for here, now? What will you do about it? How can you be sure that is what needs toContinue reading “December 30, 2025”
December 29, 2025
Removing the diversions/distractions of cars and houses brings for the wonder of light and shadow. I enjoy walking with a camera through the world as it is without the additions of civilization intruding, neverminding and overlooking the additions of my cellphone camera, my coat and my shoes. Which brings up the matter of contradiction, opposition,Continue reading “December 29, 2025”
December 28, 2025 – B
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December 28, 2025
How we see is a function of how we look, is a reflection of who we are, and a mirror of our soul. Soul is our deepest, truest self, carrying our values and our cherished ways of being in the world and expressing the truth of what we honor most. This photograph and all thoseContinue reading “December 28, 2025”
December 27, 2027
Having done it is it. No one living–no living thing–has done it without having toughed it out somewhere, if not all the way, along the way, and they get style points for having toughed it out with style and with grace and with Pizzazz along the way. Style points are icing on the cake. TheyContinue reading “December 27, 2027”
December 26, 2025
This is #40 of “200 More Zen Thoughts From Jim Dollar #1” blog on WordPress: In the New Testament, we get to pick our God, and there is a wide variety from which to choose. I’m going with the God who is like the prodigal son’s father: “You were lost and now you are found!Continue reading “December 26, 2025”
December 25, 2025
The Buddha under the Bodhi Tree is Jesus in Gethsemane and on Golgotha.And Dylan Thomas writing as his father lay dying, “Do not go gentle into that good night! Rage! Rage! Against the dying of the light!” The last one alive is still dying. The work remains the same: Rage! Rage! Against the dying ofContinue reading “December 25, 2025”
December 24, 2025
Swamp grass has nothing to do with Christmas Eve, and Christmas Eve has nothing to do with the war in Ukraine, or with why we all can’t just get along. Or why we all can’t be billionaires. Not that we could get along if we were. What’s the key to getting along? Growing up mayContinue reading “December 24, 2025”
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