January 27, 2020 thought for the day: A child's words have no guile. Chinese Proverb

This isn’t quite the typical Monday. To start it off, I slept in a little later than usual. That bed felt so nice and warm and cozy. Once I did get up, things pretty much followed the habitual directions. It always begins with the virtual visits, the three email sites checked and news titles with further reading if the headers are interesting. Then some facebook cruising for any thought-grabbing information.

I am finding that this winter I am dipping into my archives for photos to match the themes. Either the weather isn’t right for that day or my time is devoted to something else for most of the day. On January 26 the theme was “bright”. The sun was not on my side yesterday so I used one of my plant lights as the something bright.

I moved on to the bulletin updating the standard features and filling in where I have become accustomed to doing for each of the preacher’s wants and needs then waiting for the information for the weekly service.

I forgot my choir folder yesterday when I left the church after the pot luck fellowship. Since I need the sheet music to complete parts of the bulletin, I decided to go to church to look for the folder. I also had the food pantry sign in sheets to leave for tomorrow’s food pantry opening. I made a side trip, stopped for gas before I got to the church. I checked in four areas of the church for the folder but didn’t find it. In the choir room I checked the upcoming anthems list and found what we would be singing on Sunday so I got a copy of that piece. I also left the documents for pantry I had brought from home.

When I got home, I spent a little time on the Goodwill boxes I am putting together. After that I made an adjustment to one of the crochet pieces I am working on. I am making a sun bonnet that needs some millenary wire in the brim. There is a joiner to attach the two ends of the wire. I was having trouble getting them to stay attached. I did some experimenting and found that Gorilla Super glue works great. So I applied the super glue. It needs to set for twenty-four hours so I won’t be able to work on the hat tonight.

Today’s photo theme was one that I talked about above, pulled from the archives. The theme is “I miss...”. At my age there are many things that I miss, most are not photographable. But one that at the moment of the day that I was thinking about the theme I was missing spring, the warm weather, the flowers and gorgeous landscapes so this is the result.

The word today is discussion. The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress, Joseph Joubert. Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. education and free discussion are the antidotes of both, Thomas Jefferson. Anyone who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory,  Leonardo da Vinci. If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack,  Wendell Phillips. Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion, Franklin Pierce. Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth, Thomas Henry Huxley.  I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America, Alexis de Tocqueville.  On the face of it, it must be a bad cause which will not bear discussion. Truth seeks light instead of shunning it, Horace Mann. 

I find that visiting local Metro parks can be relaxing. It seems they each have some of the same to offer while at the same time something different in each and, in my opinion, they are important to city living. The article today seems to be about one of our parks being “updated” to increase better plant and animal life. The overgrown grasses have been mowed down to make way for new growth. The process of mowing is put off until mid-October thinking of the wildlife and songbirds that may be nesting. According to the article there use to be burning of but the woody grasses are overgrown this year so that method is not safe. As they do the mowing they leave “cavities” so that pollinating insects can survive. The park service will be seeding new varsities too to increase the benefit of biodiversity in the park. The park in the article is a prairie-type landscape which also has two “vernal” pools so there are toads who live in the area. It is also a “flyway” for birds.

I think we will have baked Tilapia for dinner with hash brown potatoes.

Joy