September 13, 2022 a thought for today, The hammer shatters glass but hardens steel. Russian Proverb

The first photo club photo a day upload for yesterday was “symmetry”. When we concentrate on a word like symmetry or asymmetry it give cause for speculation, for me at least. I feel that this is symmetry in this leaves as there is in most of natures living art. 

Yesterday turned out to be a full of “things to do” day. I needed to have some maintenance done on the car so I arranged a time for that. I am lucky to have Bob here and he can help me out with this one. He is going to take the car in for service on that day that I don’t need it. He works there making it convenient for both of us. I also needed to do some “paper work on line” for an upcoming doctors appointment. I needed to move some furniture to begin to make room for house plants. I got part of a corner cleared and arranged to move a heavier piece of furniture. When Bob got home he moved that piece for me. I downloaded a new book, I finished one and needed a new one. Another James Patterson, Murder Interrupted (so far it hasn’t grabbed my attention...I’ll give it a little more time). And then Sweet Pea needed a refill on her homemade meat ball treats so that is done and some stored for a couple of  weeks. 

The second photo a day upload for September 12, 2022 is open for choice this month, there are no daily “assignments” for this club. My choice today is another image of one of my departed best furry friends. This is Sugar, she went over the rainbow bridge, as they say, about a year ago.

Today is a little less involved. Sue needs a ride to an appointment later, the dishwasher needs tended to and I want to cook the beef in the pressure cooker for dinner and get it ready to add the vegetables later. I am also waiting for the bulletin information so I can get it finished. 

My first upload for today is “tasty”. I found this one in my archives as I took a trip through there this morning. This is my great-niece as she enjoys, with her eyes closed...the best way, you know...an ice cream bar.

The word today is hidden.  It is hidden but always present, Laozi. A hidden connection is stronger than an obvious one, Heraclitus.  Hidden knowledge differs little from ignorance, Horace. Most of our faults are more pardonable than the means we use to conceal them, Francois de la Rochefoucauld. To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart, Charles Dickens. Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness; anger concealed often hardens into revenge, Robert Bulwer-Lytton. Nature is relentless and unchangeable, and it is indifferent as to whether its hidden reasons and actions are understandable to man or not. Galileo Galilei. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle. Water, stories, the body, all the things we do, are mediums that hide and show what's hidden. Rumi.  The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all. Ovid. Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is? Saint Augustine. Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor. Horace. 

My second upload today was an image and found and captured as I cruised through the neighborhood on my way home from dropping Sue off for her appointment yesterday.

It looks like a new educational event may be beginning. I am a member of one of the churches observing this new adventure in our area. The article is discussing the “new model for establishing religious schools”. In this particular article “in August, 31 children from the Hilltop and Franklinton areas began attending a new religious school called Westside Christian inside converted Sunday school classrooms at Memorial Baptist Church”. It is called a “micro-school” that is a low-cost way to open private schools in unreserved communities. This one is called EdChoice. It is financed by state education dollars instead of private donations. It is hoped that is it is successful there will be hundreds more to open. There are eight churches that have come together to start this conjecture. This group has set a goal to open five to ten more in Ohio in the next year. Public school “advocates” believe this is a “misuse of the EdChoice Scholarship system” and feel it reduces the service of public schools. The Westside Christian school idea began with $100,000 in donations. A main financial savings point came from using an existing Sunday school classroom, gym and kitchen. As the article mentions "Church buildings are empty six days a week, and we have students in failing schools who need another option." The children that this project will educate don’t have the money for private schools, “EdChoice is a lifeline for them”. A worry of some people is that there is no record of the success of these type schools and for the ones that fail students “come back significantly behind academically”. Another negative comment on the plan is that “there is a mythology that private is better”. Time will tell. Hopefully it will be a success as it grows and provide a type of education for those who may not otherwise have the chance. 

 I am making a “stew”, with a couple of additions, that I saw on the Drew Barrymore show for dinner tonight.

Joy

              natures daily affects and mans target practice