June 7, 2020 thought for the day: You cannot have all you wish for. Latin Proverb

It’s been a pleasant Sunday morning. I got some watering done on the plants and that is about the extent of the accomplishments for the day, but then it’s Sunday. It’s supposed to be a day of rest.

Yesterday’s photo theme was “f". I took shots of several things that began with “f’ and came up with these funnels.

As I mentioned earlier in my messages, I am getting some steps in on the Fitbit. So there was some of that today too. I set my alarm so that I get up from the computer every thirty minutes to get something physically accomplished or just do some walking.

Sue needed to pick up some meds to we left the house for a short time.

The weather has turned out better than it seemed to promise when I first got up. It was chilly, so much so that I put on a sweat shirt for a while. Now it is well in to the afternoon and it is much warmer and the sun is bright.

I got a chance to talk to Lowell for a while earlier.

The word for the day is healthy. Happiness lies, first of all, in health, George William Curtis,  Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body, Joseph Addison.  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything, Thomas Carlyle. To wish to be well is a part of becoming well, Seneca the Younger. He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician, Thomas Fuller. The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly, Gautama Buddha. Virtue is the health of the soul, Joseph Joubert. Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything, Charles Caleb Colton. Our prayers should be for a sound mind in a healthy body. Juvenal. The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye, Marcus Aurelius.  The science of happiness lies in controlling our thought and getting thought from sources of healthy life, Prentice Mulford. The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly, Gautama Buddha. Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, Plato. Health is the first muse, and sleep is the condition to produce it, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food, Hippocrates.

I took photos of the garage, glasses, gloves and grasses. At last I shot several of gates and gateposts and came up with this one for the photo challenge for today, "g".

In a way these virtual graduations seem like fun and what a unique memory for the graduates. The article today is a story about one valedictorian who was in the spotlight alone.  She sited how her class was the first to graduate from a new high school making it a new “chapter” in district. One of her jokes during the speech was that they had had the most successful streak of “senior skip days ever. She delivered her speech at alone except for the crew who filmed her and at “center stage” in the Schottenstien Center. She felt it was amazing to share the speech with classmates during the coronavirus. She said her virtual experience was memorable and understood why it might not be what her classmates feel as a great closure like a traditional ceremony would be. Another valedictorian from another school who was getting ready to “film” his speech said that recording the speech in advance wasn’t too upsetting. He is now focusing on being healthy and not focusing on the negatives. He went on to say things may be different but he doesn’t think different is bad.

I think we will have Taco Bell for dinner.

Love you
Grandma