February 24, 2020 thought for the day: Judge people from where they stand, not from where you stand. Traditional Proverb

I started the week out right with being up earlier enough to get a good start on the day. After my daily (sometimes two or three times a day) virtual checks, I got things together to go to church to print the Ash Wednesday bulletin. Before I got to the church I swung by Walgreen to pick up Sue’s meds. After the church I went to Kroger to do some grocery shopping. Then a stop at White Castle for a snack.

The photo theme for yesterday was “big and small”. That day and the theme was a real challenge for some reason. I was in for the day so needed to search around the house for my shot for the day. I have all kinds of house plants and all kinds of sizes. So that was the best choice for me to make for the day.

After all the groceries were put up I got back to the computer. After a few more virtual checks I switched back to household tasks. I started the Roomba (irobot). After it had a short run I noticed a “heavy” sound coming from the machine so I decided the brushes and the collection cup needed cleaned.

I had left some of the groceries out because they need transferred to covered containers so I added that to the next part of the agenda.

I got the theme for today captured while I was at church. Next on the agenda, once I have the post processing done on the photo, will be working on the photo-a-day book that I am generating.

The word is educate.  To the Greeks, the supreme function of music was to "praise the gods and educate the youth". In Egypt... Initiatory music was heard only in Temple rites because it carried the vibratory rhythms of other worlds and of a life beyond the mortal, Plutarch. It is defeat which educates us, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them, Thomas Jefferson. It has been the office of art to educate the perception of beauty. We are immersed in beauty but our eyes have no clear vision, Ralph Waldo Emerson.To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires, James Russell Lowell. The true function of philosophy is to educate us in the principles of reasoning and not to put an end to further reasoning by the introduction of fixed conclusions, George Henry Lewes. If your plan is for one year plant rice. If your plan is for ten years plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years educate children, Confucius. To Educate is to Free, Jose Marti.  People commonly educate their children as they build their houses, according to some plan they think beautiful, without considering whether it is suited to the purposes for which they are designed, Mary Wortley Montagu. If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation, Brigham Young. 

I got the post processing done on the photos I took a church this morning . I had two in competition.  After some processing work on both I chose this one. The theme is “corner”.

Something of note happened  at the zoo this week. A pair of cheetah cubs were born. Their birth was a little unusual and exciting for members of the zoological community. It’s always interesting to see new animals at the zoo. And this is a particularly interesting event. These cubs were the first in vitro cheetah cubs born at the Columbus zoo. It was announced that they were the first cubs to be conceived through in vitro fertilization and implanted in a surrogate female cheetah. There is one male and one female cub.  They were incubated and created to embryos. The embryos were implanted in both Izzy and her sister Ophelia. The implantation did not take for Ophelia. The cheetahs live in the Heart of Africa region of the Columbus zoo. They are friendly with the zoo keepers and are trained to allow ultrasounds, x-rays, blood draws and other medical procedures. Cheetahs bodies develop complications that can affect pregnancy so it takes care to chose the eggs and sperm to be used for the in vitro process as well as the surrogate.

We are having roast chicken and baked french “fries” for dinner to night.

Joy