January 16, 2024 a thought for today, Figures don't lie, but sometimes liars figure. Albanian Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “patterns in the sky”. On a beautiful sunny day there are almost always clouds in the sky. The magic is that they are never, ever the same like snow flakes and rain drops. 

The next upload for yesterday was “something big”. This is not nearly as big as the
giant sequoias but still a gift of God’s and right in my neighborhood and in the way of my camera lens.

The next upload for yesterday is “at a hardware store”. As I have mentioned before I shop on line so I don’t go in to too many walk-in stores any more. So I decided for this challenge, I would use an area where we store our hardware needs. 

This is one of the days of the month that I have a fourth upload for the day. This one is called “landscape”. I don’t know if landscape and city scape are the same thing. This on is near my home in a big city. 

Life today. I had a meeting at church last night not really wanting to go out in the cold. But it was an important meeting and a friend was picking me up. So it wasn’t so bad. All I had to do was to walk down the drive way to a car that was heated up nicely. The meeting had a couple of tense moments but proceeded. 

I have the bulletin ready of the pastor’s information. So I got a tiny start on the newsletter. It wasn’t much of a start but every little bit helps. I got the calendar date changed to February and put in the necessary meeting and activities. 

I was thinking about the web page and what it needs to be completely up to date. Since they have been putting back a page that had been lost in a transfer a new page appeared. I hadn’t generated it so I don’t know where it came from. I called for tech support and was able to delete the page myself. It was one of the online kinds of support. The technician showed me how to get to the area of the site I needed and what to look for to delete the page. After about half hour I was able, with his help, to get it done.  

My first upload for today is “the colour yellow”. I was making myself a tuna salad sandwich for lunch and had hard boiled an egg. A perfect use for this photo challenge. 

Another house hold project on my mind was trying to figure how to get my ceiling fan blades readjusted for winter....to help distribute the heat a little better. Lowell will stop by shortly to help with that. 

Due to the below freezing temps out the door I have decided to use my archives for the photo I need for uploads in the next few days. I have that to use, for me, seems to be necessary in these cold months. I can set up props and such for some of the photo challenges many are more precise in their requests for subject matter. 

My second upload for today is “favourite food”.  Mine is fish, almost any kind of fish. This dish is a baked fist with almond butter served at York Steak House. 

The word today is through. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  I see through my eyes, not with them, William Blake.  Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart, Teresa of Avila.  It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see, Henry David Thoreau.  The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze, Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer. What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye, Horace.  You never know how you look through other people's eyes, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Listen with ears of tolerance! See through the eyes of compassion! Speak with the language of love, Rumi.  Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world, Abraham Lincoln.  We are led to believe a lie When we see not through the eye, William Blake.   This life's dim windows of the soul Distorts the heavens from pole to pole And leads you to believe a lie When you see with, not through, the eye, William Blake.  The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul, Leonardo da Vinci.  Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire.  Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron. 

My next upload today is “fire”. This is from my archives. It is the best photo I have a flames under a skillet of sloppy joes. 

This article is about the Gen Z and millennials thoughts on libraries. It was written by two professors of Book Publishing. Its always interesting to read something about books and learning. It starts out by saying “phone fixation” may be an odd connection to books but after some testing it was discovered that 92% of the two generations mentioned above check social media daily and some multiple times daily. Upon further study on the subject it was found that 53% of millennials had gone to the local library indicating that some still “see value in trips to the public library”. They feel that the study shows that these generations “prefer books in print over e-books and audiobooks, even though their other favorite reading formats are decidedly digital”. In these tests it was also found that they like going to libraries for other reason such as the “can record podcasts, make music, craft with friends or play video games. There are also quiet spaces with free Wi-Fi, perfect for students or people who work remotely”. The article mentioned that “Younger generations tend to be more values driven than older ones with “space that’s free from the insipid creep of commercialism”.  At libraries there are no ads, and fee, and cookies tracking. Somehow maybe generational definations may have reversed. I am from the “Silent Generation” (1928 - 1945). They lived before technology and it is said they “prefer to communicate face-to-face and may enjoy working in a physical location rather than remotely”. That’s not me. I love ebooks, I like Google in place of sets of encyclopedias, I like shopping from my computer and “working” from my computer (“remotely”), I like communicating mostly by email/texts. Oooops, what happened?

It will be taliepa and potato soup for dinner.

Joy

                this is an old fence I found in a back alley photo excursion