March 4, 2023 a thought for today, Making a thousand decisions, even the wise will make a mistake. Chinese Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “something green”. I have several house plants with very green leaves. I tried to pick one of them that had the best show of “green” so it is this Philodendron. 

We had a meeting on Thursday evening where I made a miss-step that is still, two days later, bothering me. There was a rather heated discussion on a point of which I should have “kept my mouth shut” even though I offered what I think was honest and true. I think I hurt a friend’s feelings which to me, that most times, is a point of more importance than a subject of minimal importance. She hasn’t answered any of my texts of apology.

Another upload from yesterday was “something silly”. I have a dry sense of humor so it is difficult for me to find things that are silly. This one is a little weird. I think most likely someone dropped the hat, someone found it and put it on the post. Or someone put there and forgot it.

We have a visit with the twins again this week. I got to see them for about an hour. Sue took them to the skating rink in Grove City for a while before they had to go home. Bob and I (and Sweet Pea) had to go for the weekly curb side grocery pick up anyway. 

I have always promoted that I feel we never stop learning, even simple things and even as age marches on. I learned, as a result of a dinner outing with Rebecca and Lowell, that broccoli can help bring down blood sugar as opposed to raise it. I never gave it much thought one way or the other before although I am aware, having been in the medical field for a while, that leafy green vegetables are a good part of a diet.  I think I mentioned I am working on re-establishing my Type 2 diabetic diet (I slipped, “fell off the wagon”). In that effort,  I ordered grilled salmon at Olive Garden (it was awesome, by the way). My plate was, maybe, a quarter grilled salmon and three quarter steamed broccoli (also delicious). So when I got home I wondered what I had done to my carefully planned meal. I Googled broccoli and found that “it doesn't cause blood sugar levels to spike after eating it. Broccoli can even help regulate blood sugar levels....help keep blood sugar levels stable and control appetite”. It looks like I am having steamed broccoli (Olive Garden recipe) with dinner tonight. (BTW, pumpkin seeds can also help lower blood sugar too.)

One of the uploads for today was “a bunch of something”. We had just come from the store so I picked this bunch of broccoli out of the bag and used it for my model. 

The word for today develop.  If we do not plant knowledge when young, it will give us no shade when we are old, Lord Chesterfield.   If you would understand anything, observe its beginning and its development, Aristotle.  The falsification of history has done more to impede human development than any one thing known to mankind, Jean-Jacques Rousseau. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles, Emily Dickinson. Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Heraclitus. Nothing stops the  man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. Thomas Carlyle. Let your motto then always be 'Excelsior', for by living up to it there is no such word as fail,  P T Barnum. One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

Another upload for today is “sweet”. I allow myself one tablespoon of these nibbles when I am hunger for something chocolate/sweet. The carbs in a tablespoon are 8. 

It’s nice to know about the history of things around you and how they may have the ability to make your life fuller and richer.  I would not have thought of the Scioto River starting out as “small ditch”.  It is written that it did began as a ditch in a farm field in Auglaize County to travel 80 miles in Hardin County eventually having becoming the Scioto River traveling 230 miles to the Ohio River at Portsmouth. Early on it was first used by native American tribes in the area. It was their line of transportation and at stops along the way they built and left traces of mounds. The Scioto as most water ways floods now and then. According to the article the benefit of a flood in the case of the Scioto was the “creation of a rich topsoil”. It has made small changes in its course over centuries. “When Europeans came to Ohio they too used the Scioto as a navigation tool”.  In the beginning they used canoes and eventually graduated to larger boast. They could travel to Portsmouth, Pittsburgh and New Orleans. The word Scioto means deer. Deers could be found all along the river along with other wildlife. Salt seemed to be found along the Scioto so Native peoples came from “great distance to acquire” it. There are two major dams on the Scioto and many “low-head dams”. Scioto River travel was cheaper than by land.  Many people settled along the river because of the rich farmland. 

I think we will have baked taliepa for dinner with air fried potatoes. 

Joy

another of those pesky orange cones but this one with a bit of lines and textures and forms