So far it has been a pretty much typical Monday. I spent the early part, after the virtual checks, on the bulletin. Then I started disassembling/reassembling the newsletter to get a start on the August issue. The information from the congregation will be due on Sunday so this will help get it completed by a week from Wednesday more comfortably.
Yesterday’s photo challenge was “this is mine”. As you can imagine that leaves a wide-open list of choices. One that came to mind for me was part of my “garden” that you may have gleaned from other places in my blog. I have a house plant “garden” as well as a couple of tiny areas of decorative plants in my yard. This photo is a part of my house plant selection that is spending the spring and summer outside on vacation.I got part of the watering done, the frig cleared out and the dishwasher tended to. As I was working, I had the TV on as I always do. I caught the words’ chicken nuggets as it rose above the other chatter so I stopped what I was doing and listened. I had been trying to decide what I was going to have for dinner. That sounded good so I searched Google and found the recipe.
Now it’s time to do the rest of the watering and to go in search of the photo of the day.
The word is intellect. The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of
things, Henry David Thoreau. Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God, Edwin Hubbel Chapin. The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart, Eugenie de Guerin. Teaching brings out innate powers, and proper training braces the intellect, Horace. To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of intelligence, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder, Rumi. It hinders the creative work of the mind if the intellect examines too closely the ideas as they pour in, Friedrich Schiller. The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known, Leonardo da Vinci. Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect, Leonardo da Vinci.
An article about gardens and nature is always relaxing, even when it includes bugs. This article is about how dragonflies offer something to gardens as do butterflies and hummingbirds. A suggestion to encourage them to visit your space is to leave “natural debris” in a pond, there may be eggs waiting to produce new baby dragonflies. Another suggestion is to add plants and flat rocks so the dragonfly has a place to perch. The article said “A dragonfly’s speed, agility and super hero vision make it a lethal ambush predator, able to track, nab and devour insect prey in midair, often sneaking up from below”. The insect can eat as many as one hundred mosquitoes a day. I visited a site mentioned in the article and learned that the dragonfly has two sets of swiveling wings so they can hover motionless or change direction in a blink. So we can see that dragonflies as great “pest managers”. Not only are they “pest managers” many think they are entertaining in their movements. Not only are all of these descriptions interesting there is one more fact about them, they are descendants of an ancient species who lived before dinosaurs and are just as amazing as their prehistoric family.
We are having home made chicken nuggets in a delicious honey mustard sauce along with cheesy potatoes.
Joy
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