March 10, 2024 a thought for today Time and hour run through the roughest day. German Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “shadow”. It was a strongly overcast day so there were very little if any shadows. I got a hint of a few when the sun peeked through the clouds but nothing to make a good image. I had this one in my archives and liked the forms.

The next upload for yesterday was “wagon”. I don’t have young children around the house so a wagon that young people might have laying around was out as a prop. I was picking up my curbside groceries so I got a quick shot of the cart they bring the groceries on. 

The last upload for yesterday was “M is for....”. For this image I went a bit further from the grocery store to find this aged motel. I decided to use that as my photo for the upload. 

Life today. We had the twins for a while yesterday. They are growing up so fast. They will be teens pretty soon. I can remember when they were tiny babies. 

Tami and Andy stopped yesterday too. It feels good when they stop by. It was a surprise. We just chatted for a while and got caught up on what we were doing with our time. 

Today started out with the sun still not all the way up.....we turned the clocks forward last night/this morning. I don’t think I have felt the lack of an hours sleep yet but it will hit me by bed time I imagine. 

Church attendance today was on the low side. The sermon was interesting. After church we had our annual Congregational meeting and went through the annual report book that I have been spending so much time on in the last few weeks. 

The first photo upload for today is “abstract”. I had generated this image from three hibiscus flowers  from my garden a couple of year ago. I used a filter with some algorithms that I used to help in changing shapes, forms, colors and many other parts of photo designs. 

We are having another of the cold weather days before we can start counting on the warm sunshine to hang around for a while. We had some snow flurries before I left for church. The sun is trying to hang around too. I hope it warms things.

Since it is Sunday, I am on the quiet side of things. I found my photos of the day earlier. Now I need to run them through the “darkroom”....Photoshop. 

The next image upload for today is “go”. I decided to use my coat and purse to show the idea that there would be movement....on the go kind. 

The word today is became. The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. Thomas Carlyle.  I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. Lao Tzu.  It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. Horace.  Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress. William Hazlitt.  If you seek truth you will not seek victory by dishonorable means, and if you find truth you will become invincible. Epictetus.  The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Men have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau.  Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. Edmund Waller.  Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul. Victor Hugo. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. Abraham Lincoln.  Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. Thomas Carlyle.  The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo.  You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  

Another image upload for today is “on my fork”. I had a piece of cake from a meal that Lowell and Rebecca had ordered for Sue and I. I decided to use it for my prop for this image. 

The article expresses a light hearted view of the habit of some  to organize and of those who don’t, as the author put it this article is an “ode to those who organize”. She, the author, said there are planners and nonplanners. She mentions that planners need to start six months before a happening to set things up at least in the thinking and planning phase. Things like food to be considered, how many people, maybe even down to types of hair styles to be considered. Staples for the event are purchased weeks ahead of time, maybe during sales. She mentions that her husband and her dad are of this variety. Her dad makes lists for camping trips including spreadsheets for most activities in his life. She mentions that she is of the other side of the coin. She waits for an hour before the happening. She wait for an “hour before dinner to decide which ground beef recipe to use.” She says she is glad for the planners in her life. Her husband books hotels, decided on what routes to take and the budget. She says if I were up to her they would just “throw stuff in duffle bags on a random Tuesday in July and just see where the road took us”. She mentions that at the time of this article it is the time of competitions for her kids. This means travel and schedules. She prints list and hangs them on the refrigerator. She said it is the “person she had become” because she has three active kids. She noticed one day when she checked her Google Calendar there were some of the kids events marked that she has to attend. It turns out her husband had add them to her “invite list” on that calendar so that she wouldn’t forget. She went on to say that he had booked the hotel and (this one got me) “had the oil on the van changed”. So she wanted to take the space in the article to “personally thank every planner in my life and in others”. 

This is one of the days that I had a fourth upload. This assignment was called “special to me...”.  This is a part of the Sanctuary of my church. The arches, textures of wood, the lightings systems all form a special sight and feeling for me. 

We are going to Natalie’s for her birthday and supper. 

Joy