November 22, 2022 a thought for today, Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished. African Proverb

One of the uploads for November 21 was “fill the frame”. This is the inside of a piano at church”. I think that filled the frame. 

What a day this has been. I finished and sent the bulletin for review. I have the newsletter done except for the financial information I need, hopefully it will be today or no later than tomorrow morning. 

The Session (Board)  meeting last night was full of information we are handling a present. It was a good and productive meeting. 

The other upload for yesterday was “half full”.  This is part of my iced tea for the day.

We had food pantry today. We had more visitors than we have had in probably a year or so. We were all moving the whole time we were open. I am glad that we can serve this many people. We had an extra person on the intake table today which was a big help. Toward the end of the day the other two on the intake helped in the back. So I was alert for any more coming in and then closed out all three computers and took all the necessary cabling and paper work and got it ready to be put away.

I was famished by the end of pantry so I stopped at McDonalds. On my way home I was on the alert for one of my photo’s of the day. 

An upload for today was “patterns”. I took this one as I was waiting in the pickup line at McDonalds. My car’s shadow on the wall. 

The word today is simple.  It is the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected, Marquis De Vauvenargues.  Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication, Leonardo da Vinci.  Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough. Charles Dudley Warner.  That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Henry David Thoreau.  It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences, Aristotle.  Simplicity is a jewel rarely found, Ovid. We must not be wise and prudent according to the flesh. Rather, we must be simple, humble and pure. Francis of Assisi.  Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever. Rumi. The words of truth are simple. Aeschylus. If you get simple beauty and naught else, you get about the best thing God invents. Robert Browning. Only great minds can afford a simple style, Stendhal. Beware the barrenness of a busy life, Socrates.  As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness, Henry David Thoreau. How many things are there which I do not want, Socrates.  

The other upload for today is “graffiti. This one is on an old single story one or two room building that has be boarded up for quite a while located on a main artery on the Westside. On another part of the building there is a more artistic mural or, as some people would say, graffiti. For some reason this one “spoke to me” more than the other for this particular upload.

It is interesting to look at the first Thanksgiving another way. The article relates that there are misconceptions surrounding the first Thanksgiving. There was a history professor who interviewed members of the Wampanoag Tribe of American Indians about how the history of the first Thanksgiving was passed down in their culture. According to him it is understanding different perspectives. During the interview it was leaned that the  Native people may not have reached out to Mayflower passengers seeing them as “friendly, naive primitives,” welcoming the “religious freedom seekers” as has been the notion in history lessons. In reality the Wampanoag leader arrived not as a friendly move but one to “take advantage of the goods they brought”. Also to try to prevent the “violence to a nation already hit by diseases brought by previous Europeans”. There was a shared dinner but “a dinner of happy Pilgrims and Indians doesn’t capture that history in any way.....’It’s not black and white … it’s understanding different perspectives’”. The author of the article believes that “the number of teachers and schools teaching Thanksgiving in a “traditional fashion” — those dressing their students up and singing Thanksgiving songs — is diminishing”. We should remember “that they (Native Americans) have their own priorities, their own cultures, their own politics”. One of the teachers contributing to this article “suggests that teachers on a grade school level teach their students about the Native people indigenous to their local areas” so they learn more about the full and true history of Native American culture and society and how that would relate to the first Thanksgiving.  

We are have another air fry dinner.....maybe beer battered fist or maybe air fried chicken. 

Joy

this is a tree stump....I pass it every day.....it looks like someone didn’t have the time to cut it all the way down and over time shopped at it....maybe hoping eventually it would be chipped away