March 2, 2024 a thought for today. One hour's sleep before midnight is worth two after. German Proverb

One of my photo a day uploads for yesterday was “panning”. In my experience panning can be moving the camera with a moving item in focus the whole time with the background out of focus. Another use of panning is to move the camera slowly to include the background in focus also leading to a wider few of subject matter. I don’t do either well but I have a wide view, not quite as extensive as panning, of traffic in this image. 

The second upload for yesterday was “morning coffee”. I have held on to this vintage drip coffee maker and used it in this photo, along with a cup of coffee. I don’t coffee anymore....I am a tea drinker (caffeine free) after some ulcer problems. 

The last photo upload for yesterday was “the road to.....”. I used this one from catch as catch can  my photo of the day opportunity moments to go to the archives for later use. I took this one on a trip to the doctor’s office. I liked it because I caught the train (road to...) and the street (road to....) road to anywhere or everywhere. 

Life today. Tami and Andy came for a surprise visit yesterday. That was a surprise and great family chat. 

Sweet Pea and I got the curbside grocery pick up done. They are all put away in good time too for today.

I had a bit of a problem when I started out though. I seem to have misplaced my car key. Fortunately I have an extra. I like having an extra on hand so now I have to try to find the other one. I tried my coat and jacket pockets, my pants pockets and the three pouches on my purse. I check on the floors around where I could have possibly dropped it. I even dug through the last bag of trash I threw out and went through that. Still no key. 

The first upload for today is “inside”. I decided to shoot a photo from the outside looking toward the inside for this “assignment”. 

In between other tasks I finished folding the special bulletin that I brought home to finish. I still need twenty-five of the inserts. I will pick those up when I go to church tomorrow. 

I have a couple of other things I want to get done today and hopefully have time to work on some of the photos for the annual report. 

The next upload for today is “sunshine”. I have several image of gorgeous blue skies with fluffy white clouds that would have worked. But I chose this one that show the strong sun reflected on the brick structure. 

The word today is argument. Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. Joseph Joubert.  With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison.  Truth springs from argument amongst friends. David Hume.  Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing. John Locke.  Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings. Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers. William Penn.  Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one. George Savile.  He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. Michel de Montaigne. Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue. John Webster.  Similes prove nothing, but yet greatly lighten and relieve the tedium of argument. Robert South.  In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Walter Savage Landor.  

Last photo of the day is “old car or truck”. I was able to capture both in one image. Some of my peers  used vintage cars and trucks rather than “old” cars and trucks which fit the assignment also.

The article. I have often wondered how my neighbor has trained his dog not to leave the front yard. I thought maybe this article will give me a tip. This article is not about dogs alone it is about training any animal. I is was written by a professor of philosophy. It begins about how we talk to our animals sometimes scolding them for one misbehavior or another. When we talk of “punishment”, according to the article it “implies more than a loss of privileges”. Which leads to the mentioning of the fact that animals “understanding is different from a human’s.”, It goes on to say that are “rebukes” to an animal are ethical. A study shows work on the different kinds of animals “cognition”. The author worked with professionals in psychology and anthropology to complete this article. There are three kinds of learning....”conditioning, instruction and education”.  In one study of conditioning ringing a bell made a dog salivate at the ring of the bell alone because as the bell was rung food was presented. When the subject of punishment was included in this type of study it was found that when “positive or pleasurable stimuli are used to reinforce desired behavior, and negative or painful stimuli are used to deter undesired behavior”. The author has leaved that there are key differences in human “wrongdoing” and that of animals. Training animals such as horses and dogs the training is more involved than just conditioning it requires instruction. The difference is instructor talks to the animal though they do not understand the grammar they can lean to understand what the words “refer to”. “Research on perception – on how humans and other animals convert sensory information into mental representations of physical objects” leads to their growth and capabilities. It is felt that some animals actually think. So recognizing the difference between thinking and nonthinking animals leads to how they should be treated. Thinking animals can be “educated”. Birds can recognized themselves in a mirror. Humans, when considering the treatment of their pets should remember that particular animals ability to learn. Toward the end of the article it mentions that “unlike a child, however, the animal’s transgression is not a failure to fulfill a moral obligation”.

I think I am going to make goulash for dinner.

Joy