November 9, 2019's thought is:  You don't always miss the bus. Sometimes, it misses you. Hebrews Proverb

I think winter is here. The calendar doesn’t say so but the temperature is making a full appearance. I used my electric blanket for the first time last night. I have never used an electric blanket before but the thought of it does bring to mind my youth when I remember mom and dad having one. It sure was nice and toasty.

I have been home all day. The girls are here so we had our usual time of finding and printing my little pony clip art and coloring pages. Since I was doing the coloring pages for one of the twins, I decided to print some extra pages for the HM3 (Hoge (Memorial Presbyterian Church), Music, Message and Meal, for people needing our love) kids. I will drop them by the church about quarter to five.

The theme photo for November 8 was "aqua". I couldn't find to many items that were aqua in color. I had to use some imagination
. I looked through some of the twins toys and coloring pages but still had to put together something, a prop of sorts. I had just received a package in the mail of a birthday gift I had ordered for the girls birthday. It had a section the color that I needed.

I haven’t mentioned for a while that I have some of my photo art pieces on web sites that make items using my designs and selling them. I haven’t been as active in that area for a while but my sites are still there and I am back to contributing on a less often bases the sites are: redbubble.com (https://www.redbubble.com/people/jarector), Society6.com (society6.com/joyanne), and  fineartaneruca.com (https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/joy-rector). Take a look.

Photography has come a long way since its beginnings. It is particularly interesting to me the many filters and lighting techniques that can be used to improve an image. Many of these techniques come from the original darkroom methods of postprocessing an image. Filters and focusing were used both on the camera and on the enlarger to create an artful image. Those same features are used in the digital darkroom. As is true in life’s path, new technology brings new outcomes and bonuses. I use some of the new additions to Photoshop to generate art pieces from my original photographs. Some of my work is found on the sites I mentioned in the paragraph above.

This has been a more or less non-productive day. I don’t have anything on the agenda so I have been just moving from one back burner thing to another to find one I feel like latching onto for a little while.

The photo for today was a little easier to find. I shot a few that I liked so that I had something to chose from. There seems to be more of the color navy than that of aqua.

The word today is chance. Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind, Louis Pasteur. All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire, Aristotle.  No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune, Plutarch. To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect, Hosea Ballou.  Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance, John Calvin. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine, Saint Augustine.  

All the major holidays were cause for celebration in our lives as I grew up and as my children grew. Now that I am a senior citizen the excitement has waned a bit. The meaning for each is still there in the heart and mind it’s the physical involvement that has declined. The article I found today is about keeping Thanksgiving alive. It seems this holiday is losing some of it grandeur due to the holiday prior, Halloween and the coming of Christmas a whole month away. I like the author’s comment “Thanksgiving has morphed into an after-thought of family, food and football”. Being observant of clean and meaningful social events and habit is a way of living every day in a healthy lifestyle. It builds and sustains faithful people. According to the article it’s up to us to   keep the importance of the holiday alive and make it special.

I am going to stop at Taco Bell to pick up dinner tonight on my way back from dropping the coloring pages off at church.

Joy

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