June 8, 2026, a thought for today, Silence goes better with shrewdness than with a kind heart. Polish Proverb
Photos in my life yesterday
My first challenge was “glimmer.” It is the peace and gratitude of Holy Communion.
Life today. It has been an interesting day. I started the bulletin and then found out that the visiting pastor is ill and won’t be able to be here. Now I am waiting to see if we have someone to fill in. I have the back section done but need the whole order of worship to finish. I can get most of it but need the scriptures and sermon title. So I am moving on with other things on my agenda while I wait to see where I go from here with the bulletin.
I have the photos for today lined up, cataloged, and keywords attached, just the uploads to do.
My tiny “desk” was delivered this morning, it needs put together. I may attempt that either later today or tomorrow. It’s a pretty little thing, now I have to see how functional it is.
We are supposed to have a tech here on Thursday for the air conditioner. I was hesitant to turn it on until then but the temperature is going up pretty quickly so I gave in an hour or so ago and turned it on. I think I had a minor case of dehydration on Sunday from the heat. I didn’t want to feel that way again if I could help it.
Sue seems to be improving. I was beyond concerned about her for several weeks. I think I can relax a little on that score for now. I hope she continues to be able to be more mobile and conversational.
The word for today is advance. Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, And toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal. All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. Edward Gibbon. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas H. Huxley. To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence. Friedrich Nietzsche. If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself alone. A man should keep his friendships in constant repair. Samuel Johnson. If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Lord Chesterfield. Be not the slave of your own past. Plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep and swim far, so you will come back with self-respect, with new power, with an advanced experience that will explain and overlook the old. Ralph Waldo Emerson. 'Tis hard if all is false that I advance A fools must now and then be right, by chance. William Cowper. He that embarks on the voyage of life will always wish to advance rather by the impulse of the wind than the strokes of the oar; and many folder in their passage; while they lie waiting for the gale. Samuel Johnson. As we advance in life it becomes more and more difficult, but in fighting the difficulties the inmost strength of the heart is developed. Vincent Van Gogh. Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority. Thomas Huxley. He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years. Thomas Carlyle.
Article summary. I really like the subject material I can find on this “academic/journalistic” news website called The Conversation it is “widely considered a highly credible and trustworthy source for news and analysis. It operates on a unique academic-journalistic model rather than traditional reporting”. As I begin my search for something interesting, educational and trusworhty to share I go to this site to find something that is touching to many lives. Anyway, this is the one I chose for today. I think most of us are concerned about time along with time changes each year. The title is Why we will probably never have a perfect clock. Daniel Brown, Lecturer in Astronomy, Nottingham Trent University. At theconveration.com. It opens by mentioning something most of us have an opinion about, the time change that happens twice a year. There are pros and cons for and against. I like the sentence that says “historically. The sun has helped us tell time.” It says we always have had to make corrections in our measurements of time on a clock. It starts with how time on a measuring device was counted has changed throughout history. One of the observations of the movement of the sun allowed humans to create the first sundials which tracked the movement by shadows. This kind of measurement made the “time” different around the world since the sun was at its peak at the “geographical locations.” As time went on time was important and upper most in “navigation” systems in particular railroad. It had to be established and recorded so that people and goods could travel and arrive according to time measurement. Time zones had to be established. There was the “unifying of time” for “common trading and political regions” and reasons. So the movement of the sun related to how clocks were set. To start that system the “only a single instance in time was needed to be marked: the middle of the day”. As measurement of time passed the different systems each came to need adjustments. In time clocks were set by “visual cues, signals via telegraph and later broadcasting of time signals via radio.” The article went on the relate that in realizing the “complexity” of getting the “correct time from the sun’s position, the definition of time based on atomic clocks (International Atomic Time - IAT) seemed perfect”. It was based on the science of electronic atoms as they allow the “avoidance” of “relying on the sun’s variable position.” There is a but, since 1972 there was what is known as “the leap second,” it accounts for “irregularities” in the slowing of Earth’s rotation. This “leap second” affect happens in June and December and needs time adjustments then. So in short the “leap second” and its meaning finally show “relying purely on atomic clocks isn’t sustainable.” We still “rely on the sky.” The ending paragraph mentions a few things we will always have to consider, one is our need to consider our daily living in respect to day and night as it relates to the sun. Second, think of “time as relative.” If someday we live on Mars we will have to “create a time that accounts for the days and years being different.”
Creamed chicken on toast sounds good for dinner.
Photos in my life today
The next challenge was “glimmer.” This one is the latest bouquet from the grocery store. I like the red, white and blue.
was near the ocean, seems like a hundred years ago. But my vet tech granddaughter was a toddler here.
Joy
the bonus image today is Sugar one of my best furry friends for 15 years, looking out the window as shoppers walked by. It is uploaded to my Fine Art America site and is a design on several items
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