Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy
Finding our way to The Way one situation at a time. I don't know how great it will be, but I expect it will be interesting, and I look forward to it going on past all reason because wonder is just that way. Are you coming or not?
Being among the dunes is one of the quietest places in my experience. The sun rises over silence and stillness, yet the dunes are moving, transforming themselves, all the time. Constant motion has never been so still. So apparently lifeless. A place where nothing ever happens here. It is a wonder to behold, and leadsContinue reading “September 15, 2023 – A”
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Emptiness/Stillness/Silence are the real Holy Trinity. Ask anyone who knows, they will all tell you the same thing. Even the Bible chips in with “Good things come to those who wait.” And from Native Red Cloud on “X”, quoting Chief White Eagle, Ponca, we get: “Go forward with courage. When you are in doubt, beContinue reading “September 14, 2023 -A”
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We are always placing the emPHAsis upon the wrong silLAble, as the old saying goes. We are always fretting about our vulnerability, and never say a thing about our invulnerability, when, in all truth, we are invincible. We may be scared and rumpled but we are sill ticking. After all these years. Ticking is whatContinue reading “September 13, 2023 – A”
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We find our own way to what has life for us– no one can tell us that. We know for ourselves what is “Yes!” and what is “No!”, without knowing “Why?”, or caring “Why?” And anyone who tries to get us to explain usually does so with the motive of arguing us out of ourContinue reading “September 12, 2023 – A”
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Staying connected with the flow of life through the crises, turmoil, noise, drama and trauma of life is the greatest trick in the Encyclopedia of Tricks. Something is always coming along to knock us off-center into the far-off center of the Wasteland. We never become accustomed to the sister-in-law (You know the one I mean)Continue reading “September 11, 2023 – A”
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In conversation with Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers said,”There is this wonderful image in King Arthur where the knights of the Round Table are about to enter the search for the Grail in the Dark Forest, and the narrator says. ‘They thought it would be a disgrace to go forth in a group.’ So each enteredContinue reading “September 10, 2023 – B”
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I take heart in not knowing anyone who has done it, or is doing it, right. The old ditty nails it: There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of usContinue reading “September 10, 2023 – A”
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We cannot care what our chances are. We have to live as though we are going to live forever with no problems we cannot manage and step into the moment, offering what is called for with the gifts that are ours to share and let that be that, moment after moment. We rejuvenate ourselves withContinue reading “September 09, 2023 – A”
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What’s so important about believing in God? Why is that more important than doing what needs to be done? If we are going to believe anything, why not believe in the value of doing what needs us to do it in each situation as it arises no matter what? And do it just like itContinue reading “September 08, 2023 – A”
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You have to do you the way you would do you given all you know about you and your current circumstances. What do you have to offer out of your original nature and your innate virtues/characteristics? Your specialties and perspective? What does the situation call for? What does it need from you that you canContinue reading “September 07, 2023 – A”
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I was born into seriousness and have swum around it it all my life. It is the whole trouble with everything. People take things so seriously. Paul Watzlawick wrote a book entitled, “The Situation Is Hopeless But Not Serious,” which captures things quite nicely. Comedians are bad about taking things too seriously. Walking around inContinue reading “September 06, 2023 – B”
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I come from people who were not true to themselves. Who lived out their lifetimes being who someone else thought they ought to be. I learned from their mistakes, and drew my own lines, but not early enough. There were severe penalties for attempting to draw lines too early. I came to know that lifeContinue reading “September 06, 2023 – A”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy