January 10, 2024 a thought for today, Don't mortgage the future for the present. Albanian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “pattern”. This is one of the many dollies I have crochet. There are all kinds of patterns for these threaded ornaments. 

The second upload for yesterday was “an entrance”. I had to make a trip to the
store to pick up a couple of things so I got this one as I was going inside. 

The third upload for yesterday was “cat”. This another image of my grand furless cats. The is a Sphynx hairless breed. 

Life today. Lowell took me to dinner last night. It is nice to be able to talk to my children alone when I have the chance. 

Its been a dreary day outside. We had high wind warnings all night long. I have a special wind chime on my front porch. I kept wondering if the wind would be so strong that it would blow it off the hook and toss it somewhere or maybe break it apart. I wasn’t able to reach it to take it down, on the other hand I didn’t think the wind would get as strong as it did. For some reason that kept coming into my mind as I woke and dozed. When I got up this morning I went right to open the blind to see what damage may have been done. I was still there, un harmed. 

The first upload for today is “a favorite book”. This is a book I refer to often about my house plant garden. It has some old ideas of plant care. Many still work today and some even better than newer treatments. 

This week the bulletin has been a bit of a chore. The hymns have been moved to different positions in the service. That took a coupe of emails and a phone call. It also caused some manipulation of the boxes of text from place to place which in turn may cause fitting text appropriately. With that done and accomplished I sent out “final” drafts to interested parties. An hour later I got a phone call with instructions to enter more information to the calendar portion and some deletions of text in other areas causing more formatting. After all of that there was another suggestion for more additions to the calendar portion. At that point I am afraid I lost my cool...... All is well now.

The next upload for today is “alive”. Sweet Pea is very much “alive” when we mention taking a trip in the car. She generally picks up on of her angry bird toys to take along for the ride. 

As it turns out I have been able to accomplish several small items on my today list. I would be on one task of the day that led to the memory that I had an address to add to several places on the church data spaces, mailing labels and phone/email directory. I got the rest of the pieces printed needed to go with the printing and mailing tomorrow morning. 

I’m still reading that book I mentioned in the last letter/blog. I am developing feelings for the people and the circumstance in the book. I don’t know where the final resting place will be in my memory and knowledge growth. But I do know that Nancy never steered me wrong.  

Another upload for today is “made me smile”. It makes me smile when she likes to watch traffic and people walking by. 

The word to day is third. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of man, Confucius.  Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth, Buddha. There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self, Benjamin Franklin. All mankind is divided into three classes: Those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move, Arabian Proverb.  He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. Thomas Paine.  There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius.  When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident, Arthur Schopenhauer. What I tell you three times is true, Lewis Carroll.  Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. Joseph Addison.  Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato. 

This is one of the days that I have a fourth upload for the day. This one is “h is for....” for me this one represents h is for hunger.

This article is from a place I have found that has interesting and thought provoking as well as educational articles. It is populated with academics and researchers, a group claiming “We are a nonprofit, independent news organization dedicated to unlocking the knowledge of experts for the public good”. This particular article is about Louisa May Alcott, a famous female author in the 1800s. Before she wrote perhaps her most famous book she wrote melodramatic thrillers and short stories to magazines to support her “impoverished” family. When some research was started on Ms. Alcott it was discovered that in the 1940s that she had written several “sensational tales “under the pseudonym A. M. Barnard”. An article she wrote called A Phantom Hand helped put down a new carpet. And a story titled Curse of the Coventrys bought “groceries and gowns”.

For the A Phantom Hand she was paid $10 in 1859. In the reading of this article I discovered that Ms. Alcott wrote under more than one pseudonyms such as “A. M. Barnard, Tribulation Periwinkle and Flora Fairfield”. It also appears that another name she used was “Gould’. There were seven stories, five poems and a nonfiction written under that name. Apparently Ms. Alcott, in the used of “Gould” used items in daily life as part of her stories. In one of her stories she titled it “The Wayside” which was the name of one of her homes. Often time she used “elements of sentimental tales with melodramatic thrillers”. The author of this story brought up the point of why Ms. Alcott would have used pseudonyms. One of the reason was she was poor and wrote and published for money. She may not have been proud of everything she wrote. It was mentioned that even though she was poof her family had “wealthy and cultured connections” on of whom was Henry David Thoreau. Writing under different names also “allowed” her to write on subjects she may now have thought her best choices. After “Little Women” she wrote “A Modern Mephistopheles” under a different name and didn’t reveal that she in fact did write it until just before her death. This author relates that pseudonyms “allowing them (authors) to tackle risky topics” 

I think I will have waffles and sausage for dinner. 

Joy

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