October 23, 2022 a thought for today, Consider the past and you shall know the future. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “matching”. I found this in my archives when I was searching for a particular photo of the twins. I felt the three Christmas bow/ribbons were “matching”. 

Today was my kind of church service, relating the lessons of the bible to today’s world and to our daily living. Given in plain everyday language making it more relatable and worth making an effort to carry on. The hymns were a perfect fit to the overall message, the Assurance of Forgiveness perfect, Prayers of the People, and finally the Charge and Benediction, perfect. Now my week can start refreshed and with renewal. Three of my dear friends who are not always there were there today too. 

Lowell stopped by yesterday. He is loaning me a laptop computer to play with for a while. I am still also in search for a new ipad. With some direction and helpful suggestions from an awesome IT guy/friend I use to work with, I am close to a decision on the one I want and will work for me. 

My second photo a day upload for yesterday was a free choice as many are right now with one of the online photo clubs. So I picked this on of an old furry friend. He went “over the rainbow” many years ago leaving behind many memories.  

I did a relaxed photo search trip on the way home from church. I have a few snaps to add to my archives. 

As is my custom I don’t have much on the agenda, just relax, refresh, reflect. It is a beautiful autumn Sunday. 

Today’s first photo upload was “natural”. This is very natural in our area for this time of year. 

The word for today is others.  Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. Frederick Douglass. A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self. Charles Dickens. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.    From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus. That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. Abraham Lincoln.  Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. Thomas Paine.  From plants that wake when others sleep, from timid jasmine buds that keep their odour to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about. Thomas Moore.  The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves. John Dryden.  Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. Saint Francis de Sales. If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. Maimonides.

My second upload today was of this shadow....I like shadows. I was searching for a different subject matter when this one caught my eye so I snapped it to use when the needed something I likes. It was shot yesterday when I was looking for something “matching”. Two parts of a sign near this light was two sections in the same color. I didn’t pick it as a useful one for my purpose. 

I’ve often thought what fun it would be to go through an attic in a very old house where things were stored over a time space of  many years. This article reminded me of such as that. The article is about how artifacts were found under a staircase that was being repaired in a Rushfille Ohio home.  The owner of this house thinks some of the finds may have ties to the Undergound Railroad. When work began on the stairs the workers assumed it was a normal spiral stairs. As they moved on they found inside a hollow of one step “stuff” that looked like it have been intentionally concealed there. The items turned out to be nearly 200 years old.  “A pair of leather shoe soles, a tin of shoe polish, a horse hair brush, old rags, square iron nails, and piece of newspaper dated May 1854". In the found newspaper there was an article about an anti-slavery convention in Cincinnati, Ohio in April 1854. After those items were found, the owner did some further “digging” on the history of the house. It has been a safe house on the Underground Railroad. The pair of shoe soles found in the house may be part of a good luck ritual. He found that often old shoe soles were hidden in different areas of safe houses “meant to bring good fortune and protection to the house and the people living in there”.  This ritual could be traced back to medieval England. Someone asked him what he planned to do with the items, he said “'I’m not particularly superstitious but I feel if they were kept here in the house for a reason, then it makes sense just to keep them here.'”

I think we will have taco take out for dinner....the Mexican pizza is back, they discontinued it for a while. 

Joy

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