March 24, 2023 a thought for today, The generous man grows rich in giving, the miser poor in taking. Danish Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “egg(s)”......sunny side up.

I got an early start. After the virtual visits I got ready and left for church to meet Dorothy so that we could finish the monthly newsletter. We got it done in our usual time frame....again (in case I have said it before ).... we work well together. We share comments about the job we are doing as well as comparing our life styles and age experiences which are much the same. As we were finishing, Patti came to do some work and our new “on probation” sexton came in about the same time.

Sue helped me with the laundry at the Laundromat store. I am so use to a washer and dryer in my own home that I really don’t have much experience at a Laundromat. There were a few times in my younger days that I did have to use Laundromats but it is more difficult at my age. It is hard to decide which is more uncomfortable going up and down the basement stairs or carrying bags of dirty clothes to the car, out of the car into the Laundromat then in reverse when done. 

Another upload for yesterday was “your desk from above”. This is a little neater than it is most of the time. It gets straightened when the computer gets shut down at dinner time. 

With the annual report out last week and the monthly newsletter finished today I think I am going to have a more relaxed day today. Cleaning up some dished in the sink and running the dish washer may be the only other productivity today. 

The first upload for today is “ a piece from your favorite game”. The only “games” I play are on my computer (digital) and they are called “lumosity... brain games.... brain exercises”. I am finding that they keep me thinking more clearly and able to concentrate better....memory, attention, and cognitive issues like solving problems. This game causes you to find two objects alike and place them together in a box at the bottom of the page then they “disappear”. 

The word today is equal and/or equality.  Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law, Aristotle.  Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven, Yiddish proverb.  Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder, Charles Caleb Colton. The proper man understands equity, the small man profits, Confucius.  Christ reasserted the unity of the race; the equality of all men before God, Joseph Parrish Thompson. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, Thomas Jefferson.  The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle.  There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart. Jane Austen.  To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction. Isaac Newton.  All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince. Plato.  By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments. Thomas Aquinas.  Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. Thucydides.  Perfect love cannot be without equality, Scottish Proverbs.  Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact, Honore de Balzac.  I believe in the equality of man; and I believe that religious duties consist in doing justice, loving mercy. Thomas Paine. 

My next upload for today is “downtown”. Here is a view of Columbus downtown up close (and around a corner).

This is article is a refreshing story about a girl and a way of teaching sign language. A seventeen year old girl found a way to teach sign language  to a kindergarten class for her senior high school project. The article said “getting 5-year-olds to sit still and arrange their fingers to form words in American Sign Language isn’t easy”. She said she got the idea for this method when she was taking, and having some difficulty, in a Spanish class, so she switched to an American Sign Language class. She then developed an idea of using gloves with color painted dots to teach the class. With this method she could tell the young children to use the color of the dots instead of this finger or that. Her teacher said she had never had a student use sign language as a senior project. The student also used her mother as a “test subject”. She said on the very fist day of the class with the kids, within twenty minutes they go all the way through the alphabet. She seemed excited that they “got through three days of work I’d planned out in one day.” She began by giving each of the kids a black gloves with the painted dots along with signs besides the alphabet in categories of number, food, as well as the alphabet. Her early instruction was “Put your red dot in between your blue and your white.....as the students arrange their fingers to make an “m.” Later there as instruction without the gloves using other hand signs for certain animals and foods. She will write a paper on the experience and be graded before graduation. The class was done a little while ago and now when she walks by the kindergarten room the student give signs in their new language....sign language. 

It’s that time of week again....Pizza!

Joy

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