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?
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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
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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”
There is only changing our mind about what is important until things click into place and we know we are right about it finally at last and accord it its due place in our life with fealty, filial devotion, allegiance, and loyalty throughout what remains of the time left for living. We can speed thingsContinue reading “August 13, 2923 – A”
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There are two terms– dissonance and resonance– that can be experienced but not taught, known but not learned. They have to do with vibrations between a body and a force with dissimilar (with dissonance) or similar (with resonance) vibrating frequencies. Discordant or resonating frequencies can be experienced with musical notes and waves of sound orContinue reading “August 12, 2023 – B”
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We feel our way into our life. Practice doing that by feeling your way into what you wear tomorrow, and feeling your way into what you eat for lunch, and into all of the decisions/choices you make that are not forced on you by circumstances. Learn to read your body, to know your body’s signals,Continue reading “August 12, 2023 – A”
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We live our way to enlightenment/ realization/ understanding/ knowing/ being/ doing… We don’t think or way there. No one can tell us how to do it beyond, “Practice, practice, practice!” Practice what? Listening to/looking into emptiness, stillness, silence. Listening/looking for hints/expressions/exhibitions/revelations of our original nature and the innate virtues/traits/specalties that reside in our DNA, seekingContinue reading “August 11, 2023 – B”
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Jim Dollar's Photography and Philosophy