May 1, 2026, a thought for today, Hour by hour time departs. Italian Proverb
Photos in my life yesterday
The first upload was “night sky”. Since I am asleep before we get a really beautiful night sky and am uploading an image I made in a time I was a bit younger and was awake a little later in the dark.
The next challenge is another of the “City Scape” kind of images. this is one of my neighborhood.
Life today. Today is May Day a “diverse holiday combining ancient spring festivals with modern labor demonstrations. It marks the start of summer, often celebrated with dancing around a Maypole and crowning a May Queen, while simultaneously serving as (starting in 1886) International Workers' Day, a day of global protests for labor rights, wage increases, and social justice.”
I did the printing at church yesterday after I was able to figure out something strange to me on the copier. For some reason it wasn’t picking up the proper paper size drawer as has always been my experience. Someone before me must have set some other paper sizes, or....whatever. Anyway, I got it fixed for my printing set up. Then I had made a promise to myself that I would at least try to get started on the photo/art work hanging on my proposed “gallery wall” all on my own since I haven’t been able to think of someone who can help me with that. So I took two photos with me yesterday, a hammer, the “special” hangers and a small hand held electric drill. I wanted to try it when no one was there so I wouldn’t be embraced if it didn’t work. I was happy and surprised that it did work. I hope to do a couple each week on the Thursdays when I am alone and hope it wasn’t a fluke and will work again. One problem will be that I can only hang to a certain level due to my petite height in stature. We’ll see how it goes from here.
Today has been one of the good days again. I have been able to “play” with some computer things I have been interested in and I have learned with them at the same time. I have my photos ready for upload and monthly set up earlier in the day than I usually do. I also got a good start on this letter.
I wanted to get back to the hole I have stared in the yard for the huge English Ivy I bought by mistake. I only have the hole about a quarter of the way done. But it is pure mud today so I can’t work on it now.
The word today is tyrant. If men will not be governed by God, they will be ruled by tyrants. William Penn. If newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own. James Fenimore Cooper. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppose. Frederick Douglass. Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson. Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau. Any excuse will serve a tyrant. Aesop. The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector. Plato. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. William Shakespeare. With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison. How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! Samuel Adams. The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. Voltaire. In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. Aeschylus. If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver. Lord Byron. If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. James Madison. Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear. Thomas Fuller. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Conversion is a change of masters. Will we not do as much for our new master, the Lord Jesus, as we did once for our old tyrant lusts? Charles Spurgeon.
Article summary. Compassion was my search word today for a story to share. I like words that pertain to caring for each other. I found this title and wanted to take a look and share. The title is Empathy and reasoning aren’t rivals – new research shows they work together to drive people to help more. Kyle Fiore Law, Postdoctoral Research Scholar in Sustainability, Arizona State University. At theconversation.com. Some “philosophers and psychologists” tried to decide if empathy helps people in their wanting to help others. Time showed that reasoning was impartial and more based on choices. More in depth study show that the “heart versus head” idea was too simple, that empathy and reasoning worked more effectively and worked with more people when used together. There were studies conducted using living health issues that tested a cost issue leading to a empathy kind to thinking for an individual. These studies also included a reasoning aspect. Organ donor type health issue scored “higher on empathy, slowing down on the thinking side. The tests showed that people using both traits, reasoning and feeling (head or heart) had a “more outward-looking helping”. The idea also takes into consideration how many lives may be saved in the reasoning and feeling decision making process. The assumption was is empathy a moral concern. According to the article the “patterns” were found to have broadened on empathy. In a broader outlook as in “poverty, climate change and global health” where people care about strangers the differences on reasoning empathy, empathy may be felt but possibly not to the “most effective giving”. In coming to a decision empathy has an “emotional spark” involving another persons suffering. Reasoning leans more toward “where help will have the greatest impact”. Working together is encouraged to be “compassionate and consequential”. In ending the article it claims that at this in the psychological aspect it is not crystal clear how “empathy and reasoning work together” as in whom they work best for and when they come apart. Having read the whole article I have decided it wasn’t exactly what I was looking for but gave pause to think.
I think we will have one of out tortilla shell pizzas for dinner.
Photos in my live today
My next challenge is another of the “my choice” nature. This one is a macro of one of the peonies in my yard.
Joy
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