June 18, 2023 a thought for today, The body is the house of God. That is why it is said, 'Man know thyself.'  Egyptian  Proverb

A first upload for yesterday was “stairs or escalators”. This was taken many years ago of a set of stairs I found on one of my photo excursions for “out of the way” places.

Church was comforting for me as usual. The sermon was on the norm, hit some good points. The hymns were familiar. The company was as always refreshing and a strengthening boast for the coming week. 

My second upload for yesterday was “fill the frame”. This is another of the images from my archives. I am using a lot of those this month. 

Lowell called to invite us to lunch after church. We, Sue, Bob and I, left to meet Rebecca and Lowell at one o’clock. We got to the restaurant before them. The parking lot was as full as I have ever seen it. So I called Lowell to pass it on to him. We decided to check out two other restaurants close by...same thing.....lots of father’s celebrating father’s day. We made a decision to take a rain check on the lunch together. I love family dinner outings, I think it is one of my favorite pass times. Bob and I ended up stopping at McDonalds on the way home.

The rest of the day will be easy and slow. No deadlines, nothing that can’t be put off for another day. It’s time to relax and refresh. 

An upload for today is “food ingredients”. I happen to have some fresh vegetables in the frig right now so they are ending up being my “props” for today’s image. 

The word today is sadness. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. William Blake.  Sorrow makes us all children again, destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well who has a brain and a heart, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression, Confucius.  The busy have no time for tears, Lord (George Gordon) Byron. There is pleasure in calm remembrance of a past sorrow. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps. William Blake.  Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good, Ovid. Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison, Lord Chesterfield.  A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine . Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. Comte de Lautreamont  The sadness will last forever. Vincent van Gogh.  Let us not burthen our remembrance with A heaviness that's gone, William Shakespeare. Sadness is a vice, Gustave Flaubert.   

This being Father’s Day the image upload for today was chosen as “respect for fathers”. Obviously I did shoot this image since I am in it and I was only about six years old at the time. This is my dad as he held my sister and I all those years ago. It is among my section of archives set aside for special and precious memories of my personal moments in time.  

The article I selected for today is titled “Is it wise to neglect the pursuit of wisdom?” In my opinion, wisdom is good, actually priceless, by and in any form. The start of this story was “what is wisdom? How do you define wisdom? How is it attained?” and went on with it is unwise to ignore questions, it can be elusive, is it hiding, do we walk right by. It offered a hint to pursue by  “simply taking a cue and a clue from the Book of Proverbs....Wisdom cries out in the street, in the squares she raises her voice”. More in the stories descriptions is “Wisdom is often described as a pursuit.....wisdom is moving around, lurking, waiting for us to notice, discover and seize”. It is a journey, “doubting without fear of consequences”, a never ending journey. Then a little further in the text was the idea of artificial intelligence and its “the rapid advancements in technology, vastly increasing our ability to communicate information and knowledge”. Artificial intelligence can not “ pursue” wisdom but it can “present diverse options for paths to wisdom”. As the article mentions, and agreeably so, that it can not take the place of humanity. It can be another tool added to the age old message of Proverbs that “wisdom cries out in the streets”. So be alert and gather the blocks of intelligence that lead to wisdom gained from experience and common sense as it comes from every day living and technology. 

Haven’t decided on dinner yet. Usually its Taco Bell or Subway or KFC on Sunday.

Joy

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