July 26, 2024 a thought for today, Listening to a liar is like drinking warm water. Native American Plains Proverbs

The first upload for yesterday was “hand painted”. My mother had a ceramic studio in her home. She how to clean and paint pieces of clay as well as porcelain. She hand painted the 3 foot tall stein. 

The next photo for yesterday was “father”. This is my dad. ‘Nuf said the photo
almost speaks for itself. He was a smart as well as wise man.  

Life today. I left early to meet Dorothy and get the newsletter done. That went quickly and I was on my way back home. I got a few of the photos I need for today. The “crew” is coming to work on cleaning out the garage. They were here yesterday and cleared the basement. 

I had time before they got here to start the letter and get a couple of other chores done. Once they started on the garage I sat in a cool place to let them know when I wanted to keep something and when to throw it out. The problem was when we got to some of the things that were stored in bins. Some of it was personal items that had been Bob’s “prized” memories. I broke down in tears. I’m afraid that I wasn’t very gracious after that. After that Tami, Lowell and I “soldiered on”. Lowell and Tami opened containers and decided what to close back before I realized that some would still be hard for me to deal with. Lowell decided to take some with him to go through later. I am afraid it will be hard for him too. I also learned that my sister had more stored in the garage than I did. Like I was envisioning earlier, when deciding to do this now, this was much like going through an forgotten attic and all of its “treasures”.

The first challenge for today was “shadows”. This are shadows on my back fence. It show the empty plant hangers that use to have an array of house plants out for the summer vacation. I can no longer care for as many plants as I use to have so the shadows are empty memories. 

It looks like I am not going to get my “Friday chores” done in the familiar way or time between working inside then going back out to see how things are progressing. 

We are fortunate that the weather is staying so nice. I was concerned that we were going to have some rain all three of these days that they had planned to be working on this process. 

The next photo is “photographers choice”. This one is not from the near by city park it is from one of the planters at a near by McDonalds. 

The word today is how.  It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus.  No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. Aesop. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. Charles Spurgeon.  The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson.  True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates.  The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much. William Hazlitt.  I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott.  If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude! Emily Dickinson.  When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth.  How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius.  How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened. Thomas Jefferson.  As long as you live, keep learning how to live. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. Sun Tzu.  It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. Virgil.  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton.  Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. Saint Augustine.  Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. Plutarch.  

The last challenge for today is “tasty”. When I stopped to get the above photo I also picked up a sausage on biscuit sandwich and I found it to be tasty.

Article: As those of you who have read me know I love animals. I like to read how they help us. We pardner, God made us both. The title is “Tagging seals with sensors helps scientists track ocean currents and a changing climate..... seals are experts at swimming through the vigorous ocean currents that make up the Southern Ocean”. They make the perfect research assistants in research projects. "During  mating season, when the marine mammal comes to shore to rest, and the tag remains attached to the seal for a year".  The tags do not affect any of the seals behaviors. The tags are removed “after the seal molts and sheds its fur for a new coat each year”. All kinds of data can be collected as the seals dive information is transmitted about locations and other valuable information for study by the scientists. “Tagging has grown into an international collaboration”. The tags “carry pressure, temperature and salinity sensors, all properties used to assess the ocean’s rising temperatures and changing currents....they also measure phytoplankton concentrations”.  The phytoplankton can signify when fish and seals are around. They can also measure the effects of melting ice. With this information the “physical pathways this warm water travels to reach ice shelves and how currents transport the resulting melted ice away from glaciers”. I learned that these tests show more information on how the oceans stored heat energy from human activity moves into the atmosphere. Of course, these sensors also “determine where seals look for food”. The tags are also used for “scientists to use the tag data to see how seals are adapting to a changing climate and warming ocean”. 

Pizza night

Joy 

these are two of my once upon a time fur babies ..... they crossed the rainbow a long time ago but are still a memory