May 25, 2024, a thought for today, It takes a year to make a friend, but you can lose one in an hour. Chinese Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “graffiti”. There is a business near my home that paints graffiti/wall art on businesses that request it. They have “samples” on walls, trucks and dumpsters on their property. I made a trip behind the building and found this beauty. 

The 2nd upload on the 24th was “music”. I often ask myself how to make a hard copy image of an idea or a sound as music. I decided to use a section of a page of sheet music for this assignment. 

The last image upload for yesterday is “furry friend”. Here’s my best. See the boredom in the half closed eye?

Life today. When we met with Lowell and Rebecca at York for dinner we had a surprise other person join us...my brother in law, Steve. It was so nice to see and chat with him catching up on how life was going for him.

Today is the day of grocery pick up. I just feel that Sweet Pea knows when it is Saturday. When I brush my teeth and comb my hair on Saturdays she gets excited and looks for her angry bird toy to carry softly in her mouth.  She doesn’t respond that way any other time when I am getting ready to go to church. As matter of fact on those occasions she goes in to my bed and lays there watching me. 

One of the uploads for today is “geometric shapes”. If one is observant there are all kinds of shapes when we are out and about. I chose this one for today. The shapes and lines in this track cap show a variety of those shapes.

After groceries are put up, I was having some problems with my Photoshop processes and had to spend more time than I planned. All the time I thought I would have spent on other things on my to do list are going to have to be “reassigned”. 

 was trying to do without the AC for a while today but the temperature outside changed my plans. The AC is back on at least until the sun goes down and takes the temperature with it. 

The next image today is an everyday pick.... “peas”. I didn’t have any cooked and “plated” artistically so I just used some before they reached that stage. 

The word today is fair.  Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Rumi.  In fair weather prepare for foul. Thomas Fuller.  In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu.  Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. William Cullen Bryant.  Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. Thomas Campion.  Praised be You, my Lord, through Sister Moon and the stars; in the heavens, you have made them bright, precious and fair. Francis of Assisi.  Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. Ovid.  According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence. Nathaniel Parker Willis.  Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson.  A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument. Aesop.  Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just. Victor Hugo.  Fair and softly goes far. Miguel de Cervantes.

The last one for today is “bridge”. I tried using this one from the upper view. I couldn’t be quiet close enough to get the traffic underneath. However, I like this view with just a suggestion of something going on under the ledge. 

Article: I saw the title and wondered where it was going....did animals “cure” themselves? Here’s the title, Animals self-medicate with plants”, written by a reseach scholar in history and philosophy.  The article opened with an explanation of something observed recently of a wild orangutan that has “suffered a facial wound” and then was seen chewing leaves on a liana vine, later applied the juice to the wound. The wound healed. The liana vine have “antibacterial and antioxidant properties and is known to alleviate pain, fever, bleeding and inflammation”. As the article goes on it states that the ‘self medication by animals’ was reported as “Greeks and Romans knew about plants and animals.....reported by Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Aelian and other naturalists”. from antiquity”.  In 1987 a term was used, ‘zoopharmacognosy’,, with was used to describe animal medicine knowledge. A note from history that about 2,000 years ago a Roman ‘natural historian’ named Pliny noted that “animals have made medical discoveries useful for humans”. Plants were discovered by “Indigenous peoples......who observed animals employing plants and emulated them”. Aristotle also mentioned such in the “History of Animals” in the fourth century. He noted that dogs eat grass when “ill”. After hibernation bears look for and eat garlic, rich in vitamin C, iron and magnesium. It has been observed that weasels roll in evergreen plant leavings to relieve wounds and snake bites. Snakes are attracted to fennel to run in their eyes. The article mentioned that Egyptians found knowledge by observing the “wisdom of animals”.  One of which was elephants “treating spear wounds with olive flowers and oil”. Some birds used oregano leaves as paste on wounds. The article went on with several notations of ways of diverse animals using plants as self-doctoring much of which led to lifesaving drugs today. I learned that finches and sparrows collect cigarette butts (for the nicotine) to kill mites in the birds nests. The article ended with stating that some veterinarians allow dogs, horses and some others to “choose their own prescriptions by sniffing various botanical compounds”. 

I think it will be taco salad for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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