June 22, 2024 a thought for today, If you have no one else, then confer with your knee. Japanese Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was “national selfie day”. It seems like we are having an awfully lot of selfie challenges lately. 

The next upload for yesterday was “photographers choice”. This one looks “historic” to me. I don’t think it is over one hundred years old, if that, it just has that kind of feel. 

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The last upload for yesterday was “I went here....”. I didn’t go in today but I made a pass by for this challenge. I was out and about and in this general vicinity so I used it. 

Life today. Dorothy and I got to the church extra early yesterday to get the newsletter done so that it would still be cool enough to get it done before the temps went up. We had a window air conditioner that helped too. 

The heat is still top of the topic of conversation and the top of the list for keeping safe and comfortable. The grass is looking like it is suffering along with the rest of us.  

The first upload for today is “j is for....”. Today, for me j is for .... jar. This one is a mason jar that happens to have my Pothos plants in its hydroponic form. 

I am going to have a visit with two of my great grand children today. I don’t know how long they will be here but I ordered a few extra treats with my grocery pickup. 

Since we will be having company I don’t have much on the agenda. Sweet Pea and I will be going to the store shortly to pick up the groceries. It will take a while to put them away before they will be here. I am going to try to have the photo upload ready before that. 

The second upload challenge for today is “summer reflection”.  This is a twice in one blog. There is another photo of Kroger and a selfie too. 

The word today is gold.  As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time. English Proverb.  All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue. Plato.  The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Gold's father is dirt, yet it regards itself as noble. Yiddish Proverb.  It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. Thomas Fuller.  Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. Leo Tolstoy.  It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble. Epicurus.  Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. Solon.  Silence may be golden, but can you think of a better way to entertain someone than to listen to him? Brigham Young.  Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already. Charles Spurgeon.  Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace. Horace. Where children are, there is the golden age. Novalis.  The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise. Rumi.  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus.  Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson.

This last upload for today is “on Saturdays I...”. Here is the second Kroger upload today. This is my now typical Saturday activity....grocery curbside pick up. This is one of my favorite clerks heading toward me and Sweet Pea waiting in the car. 

Article: I didn’t read this one all the way through. The title sounded interesting, more information about people getting along with each other, always a good idea. The title enticed by mentioning “how empathy is passed from parents to teens to their future children”. It was written by two professors, one in research psychology the other in psychology. My interest was in the word “empathy”(the ability to understand and share the feelings). In the part of my life that encompassed a nursing career, we learned how important empathy can be a significant component in life. This article talks about how it is important for parents to help their children develop this emotional or cognitive response toward others. There was a study that began in 1998 that brought teens and parents to a study center where videos were recorded of their conversations. Researchers observed how a mother can show empathy toward a their teen who needed help with a problem. They measured and rated the emotional support of many of the parent/teen pairs. They also measured how older teens showed empathy toward their closest friends. The study went on for a few years and surveyed how empathizes may have developed. One of the findings was that “the more empathic a mother was toward her teenager at age 13, the more empathic the teen was toward their close friends across the adolescent years”. The studies went on to find that the one who had more empathy for close friends “became more supportive parents as adults”. One of the points of the overall test was that learning this aspect of life in “adolescence is a critical skill for maintaining good relationships, resolving conflict, preventing violent crime and having good communication skills and more satisfying relationships as an adult”. During the studies it was determined, and logically so, that “simply telling them to be kind doesn’t always work........if parents hope to raise empathic teens, it may be helpful (to find ways) to give them firsthand experiences of being understood and supported”. Friendships in adolescent times are a “training ground” for this life enriching component and it helps to find and develop ways to “respond effectively to other people’s suffering, and supportive care giving abilities” in all areas of life. 

Maybe spaghetti for dinner..... maybe.

Joy

                on our way home ..... Sweet Pea and Me