July 15, 2020 thought for the day: As you climb the ladder of success, check occasionally to make sure it is leaning against the right wall. Traditional Proverb

This has been like most days, things keep getting added to my to-do list. I think that can be what makes a happy and productive life, at least for me it does, most of the time.

The photo theme for July 14 was “water”. I wasn’t out and about yesterday so I pulled from my photo archive. I had the brilliant (?) idea to use a water tower to fit the title.

I have begun getting returns on the request for updates for the church directory. I spent some time entering the data that I have received so far. The newsletter is done to the point that I am waiting for input from others. The bulletin is done and out to the proofreader...some have come back and are adjusted already. I should be ready to print tomorrow morning. I also played around with getting art work for the front page of the new phone directory. I am satisfied with it but it may take a bit too much color ink, I will have to give that some more thought.

Sue had another appointment at the dentist so I dropped her off then picked her up about a couple of hours later. Then she needed to stop at the store. Once back at home, I got back to work on the computer things while taking a break to water the “gardens”.

It is hot outside and is supposed to get even hotter for the rest of the week. I learned something today. I learned what the dog days of summer really mean. It is about the stars. I naively thought is had to do with actual dogs and how the heat of the summer affects them at this point in the year. I am so glad for the capability to learn and learn and learn.

The theme today is “number”. I had been playing around with a Photoshop technique using layers, putting one image over another and using a mask to pull parts of  the under layer to the surface. I was using it on a document cover. The photo I shot of large numbers on a dentist’s office needed a boost.

The word is intention. Be intent upon the perfection of the present day, William Law. A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer, Seneca the Younger. Our aspirations are our possibilities, Samuel Johnson. It is difficult to say who does you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. Secrecy is the soul of all great designs. Perhaps more has been effected by concealing our own intentions than by discovering those of our enemy, Charles Caleb Colton. Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might, Phillips Brooks. Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future, George Eliot. An evil intention perverts the best actions, and makes them sins, Joseph Addison.  In all of our deeds God looks at the intention, whether we do it for His sake, or for the sake of some other intention, Maximus the Confessor. That delay is our surest protection which enables us to deliberate on themerits of our intentions, Publilius Syrus.  It is a hard, embittering thing to have one's kind feelings and good intentions cast back in one's teeth, Anne Bronte.  Our aspirations are our possibilities, Samuel Johnson. 

Today was another of the two photos a day projects. The second photo for today is titles “bubbles”. The kids weren’t around to blow bubbles for me to shoot and didn’t feel like loading the sink the soap bubbles to I bulled out a sheet of bubble wrap to fit the theme.

This article title sounded on the happy side. About people bonding together doing things that bring smiles. It is titled “‘Project Butterflies’ connects Latina mothers and daughters in Franklin County”. A lady new to the US from her native country of Peru needed a way to connect with people so she formed a group. Even though this was designed for one group specifically, it may work for other mothers too. It is called “Project Butterflies” and is a way for mothers and girls to offer weekly activities to one another from cooking to talks on health and appearances. The group celebrates  events such as special birthdays. One project was to put together boxes filled with supplies for different activities such as embroidery and such things as ways to make bath bombs with essential oil and scents. Time is set aside each week to chat about weekly activities and other topics that may be on one or the others mind at the time. Some conversations share teaching-type activities on subjects that may be a special talent of one of the persons in the conversation. The group as a whole try to help one another overcome whatever obstacles may be in their lives at the time.

I had spaghetti sauce in the freezer, that is going to be dinner tonight.

Joy