January 10, 2020 thought for the day:  Do not create in anger what you lack in reason. Chinese Proverb

This is one of those days that I can’t seem to accomplish what I had on my agenda for today. I feel lazy. It’s rainy and dreary outside, that may be the reason for the slushy mood. I really do need to get one of the boxes done today. I started on it and realized it is one of them that I am not quite sure where I want to put most of the items. Some are things I don’t use every day but have a need for every once in a while.

The January 9 photo challenge was “paper’. I have paper of one type or another all over the house, from books, to advertisements, to letters to paper towels, food wrappers, and on and on. This was my choice today.

Lowell stopped a little while ago. He was going to work on getting Sue’s room cleared up some. We have moved all of her storage boxes to her room but they are not unpacked, mostly because she will have to decide where she wants things to go.

The only thing I have gotten done in a productive way so far today is capturing the photo of the day and an extra photo of the day too for the other group I belong to. I still have to use the “darkroom” to “develop” them and then upload to the appropriate places.



The word is desire.  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge, Plato. The desire to know is natural to good men, Leonardo da Vinci. The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires of the soul, and of which it never tires, William Hazlitt. Gladly we desire to make other men perfect, but we will not amend our own fault, Thomas a Kempis. Loosen the bonds of avarice from your hands and neck, Rumi. Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment, Thomas Carlyle. A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man, John Adams. Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands, Seneca the Elder. The beginning of wisdom is to desire it, Solomon Ibn Gabirol. A little folly is desirable in him that will not be guilty of stupidity, Michel de Montaigne. No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself, Henry David Thoreau.

Today’s photo choice is "eye candy".  None of the house plants have pretty blooms on them right now so I looked around for something else with color and shape/form.

When I was having the problem with my bleeding ulcer (before I knew what the cause of  my problem was) I stopped drinking my traditional one cup of coffee in the morning substituting it with a cup of Camomile Tea. I drink quite a bit of iced caffeine tea also. The article I found in my news search today was how drinking tea (without milk and sugar) may help you live longer and healthier. There were a few researches done on this subject one in European Journal of Preventative Cardiology and one by the China-PAR project. In one of their studies it was determined that the main bioactive compounds in tea, polyphenols, are not stored in the body so a frequent tea intake over a period is necessary for the “cardioprotective effect”. Tea is rich in flavonoids, an antioxidant. Further in the study it mentioned that Green tea appears to lower rates in heart disease, stroke and death by 25%.

It’s that relaxing dinner time night again.....Pizza.

 The photo theme of the day from my photo 101 group is "macro". I don’t have a macro lens for the camera I use regularly now but there is a bit of a feature built into the camera.  This one is of Sweet Pea napping .

Joy