April 13, 2026, a thought for today, Dirty water does not wash clean. Italian Proverb
Photos in my life yesterday
This first upload for yesterday was “small.” My lawn not only has the yellow dandelion this year they are sharing the grass with tiny purple violets.
“minimalist,” a weed growing beside a piece of cracked cement.
Life today. It seems on Monday time passes more quickly for me than any other day of the week. It is the day I do as much of the church work that I am able to get done. Then I try to catch up on anything that I may have put on the back burner with either my personal computer work or house hold chores that I may have set aside temporarily. The hands on the clock seem to be racing with me. On top of that going back to my fine art photo site has required a little more time than I remembered from before I let it go for these few years. Hopefully it will be worth it in the long run.
I got two orders of worship done this morning that was a big chunk of the morning time, one for Sunday and one for a memorial service.
The temperatures are setting higher as spring matures. I am getting increasingly anxious to get to work on my four window gardens. I need to wait at least two to three more weeks. I have begun leaving the doors open during the day now. Both the back door and the front doors have storm doors with the window all the way to the bottom. Now Bobbi can lay on the floor by either one and either watch the outdoors or take her naps there. I haven’t put the screens in, that time’s not ready yet.
I stopped on the letter for a while to make the meat loaf and put the potatoes in the oven. So all I have to do is make the salad to have dinner ready. I was going to make the Eclair cake this afternoon but I won’t have time now so it will be another day.
The word today is them. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln. All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. Galileo Galilei. Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. Suzanne Necker. As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly. Samuel Johnson. Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. Henry Fielding. Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. Fiedrich von Schiller. No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. Michel de Montaigne. Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck. Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong. Dr. Thomas Fuller. A man can do all things if he but wills them. Leon Battista Alberti. We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them. Abigail Adams. We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words. Anna Sewell. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Be wiser than other people, if you can, but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. Aristotle. Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. Benjamin Disraeli. When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time. Saint Francis de Sales. Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love. Socrates.
Article summary. I am a lover of books, (and food and animals and...). Anyway, I saw this title and decided I had to take a look to learn and to share. The title is This course teaches how to judge a book by its cover and its pages, print and other elements of its design. Lynda Kachurek, Head of Book Arts, Archives, & Rare Books, University of Richmond. At theconversation.com. I have used this site many times for what I thought were interesting and educational subjects. This is the first time I found that this site offers articles now and then that are parts of “courses” as occasional series in meant to be an “unconventional approaches to teaching.” This is one of those, it is called “For the Love of Books.” The author tells how this idea came to fruition for her. Some college students had a chance to “interact” with rare books and “archival collections.” They observed how these books of “historical text” were made and how the ones they saw survived and were put in the university’s collection. This course is meant to teach “focus on a specific topic” as a path to stronger understanding of life around them as well as how to better “research and communicate.” The teacher/author wanted the students to see what the word “book” means in this digital era. Books are not just for homework and reading pleasure. She wanted them to see the idea of themes fulfilling “object, content, technology and art.” Further on they see the steps in each books “history” in the writing, selling, reading, then see it as an “object’s destination.” They would learn that technology in the production of “books” would change how they came to existence. She wanted them to observe the how of the era of the printing press was eventually replaced by the digital “millennium” as ways for us to “access information.” There are ways now to “explore” samples of parchment helping to show that part of how books were made. The students can learn of the new way of experiencing “transmission of information” and how it influences “literacy, economics, technology, art and culture.” They may more clearly see how books connect people with “people of long ago and faraway place” along with how they add to the change of societies and cultures.
I am making meatloaf and baked potatoes for dinner.
Photos in my life today
The first photo challenge for today is “date night.” I haven’t seen one of those in a long time. I used and set up of wine and flowers.
The second upload for today is “a natural texture.” This is one another of the evergreen trees in the back yard. It is about thirty years old.
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