Author Archives: jimwdollar

01/01/2014 — 02/21/2014 We aren’t being graded. We don’t earn—or lose—merit. No one is keeping score. We aren’t competing for some prize. We aren’t trying to get anywhere. There is only the opportunity to be alive. We either live our life or waste it. It’s never too late to live it. No matter how muchContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 017”

01/01/2014 — 02/21/2014 The line between the visible world and the invisible world is not distinct and sharply defined. One flows into and out of the other at the border. Physical particles become so small they disappear, but they do not cease to exist. I just made that up, but quantum physics may back itContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 016”

11/20/2013 — 01/01/2014 All the talk is about God. More specifically, “My God.” It’s “My God this,” and “My God that.” What God would have us do and not do (and what God is going to do if we don’t do it, or will do for us if we do it… Which says to meContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 015”

10/31/2013 — 11/20/2013 Don’t force anything. Be open to everything. Or, as Lao Tzu said, “Do your work and get out of the way. Let nature take its course.” Your work is assisting what is trying to happen, what needs to happen, without making anything happen. Or, as Lao Tzu said, “Do your work andContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 014”

August 01, 2013 – November 20, 2013 “How To Have What You Want” is the theme of every book in the self-help section of every bookstore in the land. You will be out of luck if what you are looking for is a book on “How To Want What You Ought To Want,” or “HowContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 013”

08/01/2013 — 09/30/2013 We can rise to any occasion and shoot ourselves in the foot at any moment. When we do what tells the tale that we came to tell. Eventually we all run out of luck. But, we get to do our thing as long as life lasts. Lucky or unlucky, there is alwaysContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 012”

June 15, 2013 – August 01, 2013 Our life is like a dream which wakes us up to the life we are called to live—if we look at it with eyes that see. We read our life—interpret our life, what is happening in our life, what we are doing about it—as though it were aContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 011”

05/13/2013– 06/16/2013 No Theology! It ought to be a bumper sticker. No Doctrine! This is called the doctrine of no doctrine. Bad religion looks for something beyond the experience of life to justify the experience of life—and to look forward to once “this vale of tears” is left behind through death. The experience of lifeContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 010”

03/22/2013 — 05/13/2013 Well. Here we are. What can we do with it? Sometimes, it takes waiting to see. I travel to a distant location to photograph a particular scene, but the light isn’t there when I arrive. Maybe it’s raining. Maybe it’s overcast. Maybe it’s snowing. You get the idea. Now what? In myContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 009”

12/27/2012 — 03/22/2013 We are all Leaving Egypt—the land of bondage, the house of oppression, the place of enslavement to someone else’s idea of who we ought to be. Egypt is the Wasteland, where everyone does what they are told. Where no one thinks for herself, for himself, or lives a life that could beContinue reading “One Minute Monologues 008”