August 26, 2020 thought for the day:Teaching in youth is like carving in stone. Moroccan proverb

After my virtual checks, Bob and I left for a curbside pick up order at Sams Club. After they loaded my order Bob realized I had ordered the wrong size plates and that is the ting I needed most. So we decided to go inside the store to get the right size. While we were in there we found two items that were “unavailable” at the online order so I picked those up too.

Then we stopped at Walmart. Bob wanted to look at boots and I had a couple of things to find. It turned out to be a total bust. Neither of us could find what we wanted so we were on the way again. We stopped at White Castle on the way home.

On August 25 the challenge was “life is...”. Wow, my thought was how do you picture that. I shot some street work going on, I shot some trees and the blue sky. I settled on this, a look over a hill (and in front of the hill) to show age (dying grass and cracked cement). Also indicating an object (the hill and the block wall) in the way of seeing beyond clearly and then the sight of life further on in the buildings and poles and cables of modern life and the nature of trees and the blue sky in the distance.

The information I needed to finish the newsletter and the Saturday message had arrived in my email while I was out. So I got those done and the newsletter and bulletin sent to the proofreaders.

I decided I had better get some watering done. I didn’t do it yesterday because it was predicted that we would get some rain...we didn’t. They are predicting some today but I decided not to count on it.

The word today is literacy. Words are the voice of the heart, Confucius. Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings, Heinrich Heine. The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity, Thomas Carlyle. In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leather boxes, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Reading maketh a full man, Francis Bacon.  Words are the only things that last for ever, William Hazlitt.  You must find time for reading, or surrender yourself to self-chosen ignorance, Confucius. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body, Joseph Addison.  To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark, Victor Hugo. No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. Mary Wortley Montagu.  Literature is the thought of thinking souls, Thomas Carlyle.  Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, Henry David Thoreau. Science and literature are not two things, but two sides of one thing, Thomas Huxley.  Truths and roses have thorns about them, Henry David Thoreau. The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Good children's literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to the adult in the child, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

My assigned theme for the day is “shadow”. That can be a wide open selection on a bright and sunny day. My choice was in my own back garden, the shadow of the leaves from my blackberry plant.

I love food. I couldn’t find much that was interesting and appropriate news for today but this article sounded good. The article is about a place called “Pita Hut-N-Grille”. They have been in business for thirteen years at Graceland Shopping Center in Clintonville. I don’t have any experience with Middle Easter foods but the photo that accompanied the article looked appetizing. The owner even goes so far as importing spices from Jerusalem in a effort to keep the food authentic. The food is “prepared to order” so you have to wait for it to be prepared. One of the items on the menu is chicken “shawarma”, chicken cutlets marinated in lemon, vinegar and spices arranged on a spit and cooked vertically as it turns. Then there is chicken in a pita roll. The eatery is located in a “narrow storefront with booth seating and murals on the walls”. They promise fresh, healthy food at “fast food prices”.

It’s going to be hot dogs (I know, red meat) and Spanish rice for dinner.

Joy