May 3, 2024 a thought for today, Pleasure and pain succeed each other. Latin Proverb

Yesterday I uploaded this image first, “close up”. In one of my most recent blog this very same flower was used. It was a day I needed a seasonal bloom. I only had the beginning of a bloom on the peony. This is that bloom fully open. 

The next upload for yesterday was “begins with M....”. What better than one of my favorite fast food stops.....McDonalds. 

The third upload for May 2nd is “look what I found!”. As I was driving home I discovered this pair of shoes someone left on an abandoned stairway. 

Life today. I like Fridays. There was an added stop on this one. I had to have a blood test for my next doctor’s appointment. So I got up early and went to get it out of the way. They open the lab where I go at 7:00 so I was there when they opened the doors. 

I am working on a personal to do list today, church work is done for the week. This is a fun kind of list and one I can do at pretty much my own pace with a notation. Being the type A person I am though, I have “rules” for even my unofficial lists with “time urgency” being at the top of the list. Then there is what I think is my touch of perfectionism tendencies coming in second. 

The first upload for today is “music”. My thinking was what image could I use for a sound. I chose my car radio selections screen. 

This weekends plans set a couple of months ago have taken a type of turn that is inevitable especially as age creeps on, I would have been in Florida. Not only to be by the seaside once again, probably for the last time, but to share one of my great grand children’s special events. Being with family members, each of my family members, is the apex of my existence. We need to accept that things are out of our hands at some points, the higher power decides and guides for the best. 

Sue is seeing a new doctor today. I am anxious to know what he has to say. I am hoping he can suggest how she may be able to increase her stamina and prescribe some ways for her to find  interests the add to her life.

The next upload today is “food”. This one, cheese and grapes, is from the archives. The back ground was so plain that I added one of my digital creations from an original photo as the background. 

The word for today is decency.  God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. Aeschylus.  Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Horace.  When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency. Samuel Johnson.  Immodest words admit of no defence, For want of decency is want of sense. Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon.  Decency renders all things tolerable. Joseph Marie, baron de Gerando.  I believe in an ultimate decency of things. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Virtue and decency are so nearly related that it is difficult to separate them from each other but in our imagination. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  The laws of decency enforce themselves. Louise Colet.   The fact is that men who know nothing of decency in their own lives are only too ready to launch foul slanders against their betters and to offer them up as victims to the evil deity of popular envy. Plutarch. Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies. Rudyard Kipling.

The last upload was also from the archives, “water meets sky”. Since I don’t live by the seaside or a wide river or lake it would be hard to find water that meet the sky so I chose to use the sky meeting the water in a reflection. 

This article suggest ways to keep from throwing things out and find a new life for them. That is one of my welcome ways of thinking. Here, it covers to things that are on my mind, art and books. The title is “Books take on a new life in 'Art Unbound IV'. There is another  gallery I learned about in this article in our city. It is called the Carnegie Gallery. It is located in the Columbus Metropolitan Main Library. This is where this story has begun. A project, Art Unbound, was generated recently where 25 artists were invited to create “works that both comment on the purpose of books in human life and use books themselves as their art materials. The project included using pages and lines of text and using book spines and cover”. These items were provided from “library materials that were destined to be recycled.” One of the ideas is to move against the act of “banning books”. One of the artists created a “bulbous vessel” that included parts of “Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” There are pages from the book of pregnant women in red capes and white hats placed around the vase. Another artist used “pages from politically charged texts to create pulp that she used in molds, creating a field of stones”. She called the work “Crawl Out from Under Your Rock, ......describing it as a metaphor for “suppressed ideas, stoning, as well as stepping stones to freedom.” Another artist created a sculpture of “a head made from crossed-out text from “Moby Dick”. These and more pieces are in an exhibit at the main library of Columbus through July 26. “As no two books are alike, so too are all these works unique”.

It’s pizza night again ..... almost like taco Tuesday. 

Joy  

                            ‘Tis the season