January 25, 2020 thought for the day: When you lift your hand to strike, you are three-tenths lower than your opponent. Chinese Proverb

I like sleeping in on Saturday morning. On the other hand, I don’t like losing productive hours. I don’t really have anything pressing on the agenda for today though. The thing I latched onto after I did the daily virtual visits was the church newsletter. I have all the information I need now. So I was diligent and stuck to it until it is all done.

The photo theme for January 24 was “treat yo shelf”. There are lots of ways to treat our selves, a lot of mine are with food. So I fell back on that one today. I had six egg whites left over from the spaghetti carbonara I made a few days ago. I wanted to use them instead of throwing them out. I made meringue cookies and put some dark chocolate chocolate chips in them. There was my photo.

With the newsletter finished I switched from the computer to the kitchen. I got the frig cleaned out, the dishes done and the floor mopped. I hope to put a little time in on working to get the boxes I have set up to go to Goodwill filled. It’s a slow process for me. I come across things that take no thought at all for getting rid of. On the other hand, I find things I forgot I had and think I had better hang onto it for a while longer.

At least the weather makes it easy to stay inside. It is rainy and dreary. It isn’t too inviting for the photo challenge for today though. I may have to go to the archives again today. I think I got some good shots when I was at the park the other day.

The word today is discovering.  Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves, Henry David Thoreau. Finding the right work is like discovering your own soul in the world, Thomas Moore. The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe, Gustave Flaubert.   All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them, Galileo Galilei. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation,  Plato. What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life, Michelangelo. Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth, Ludwig Borne. Who never walks save where he sees men's tracks makes no discoveries, J. G. Holland. The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it, Thomas Paine.   
 

Today’s photo challenge is “in my town”. The weather today is “frightful” (well sort of) so I went to my extensive photo archive. I didn’t have to go to far back though. This one was taken yesterday as the sun was going down.

It’s interesting to see how many ways there are for people to learn to be nice to each other. The article today says that a challenge event can teach that. Apparently there is an international event called the Great Kindness Challenge event that includes several schools. Here are the figures noted in the article: 14 million students, 25,000 schools and 115 countries took part in this event this year. More than 663 are in Ohio. The event shows a reminder of how people should be treating each other. Some of the things some of the kids did was to buy flowers for the cafeteria workers, another, put positive stickers on every locker, more Valentine cards to military and good deeds to staff members. The teachers are given a curriculum for a week. The kids have a good deeds checklist from the Kids for Peace group. Students are encouraged to continue the good deeds on their own and are not particularly rewarded for them.

Dinner is up in the air today. We are each on our own, finding something in left overs or frozen dinners.

Joy