July 4, 2024 a thought for today, When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear. Zen Proverb
My first upload for yesterday was “photographers choice”. I like the lines and shadows in this photo.
The next photo a day upload for yesterday is “waiting”. This is me ...... waiting.
Life today. I left for the printing early this morning. It went so smoothly. For one thing the computer seemed to be booting up faster?? I have no idea why but hurrah, I had the printing done, the memory card replaced, the bulletins placed and the bulletin board done in about forty-five minutes.
We were going to go look at new phones for me but something came up so we moved it to tomorrow. So when I got home from church I went back to where I left off on the computer before I left. Then I got this letter in place and the photos lined up. It was time to start the laundry.
Once the laundry was started, I worked on the dishes and the frig. Now it is back to the computer.
I over stretched my measure on a snack I chose for this morning. I ate a very sugary pastry now I am feeling the results.
The word today is had. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Vincent Van Gogh. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau. God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Saint Augustine. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good. Socrates. If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity. Voltaire. Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. Joan of Arc. I determined never to stop until I had come to the end and achieved my purpose. David Livingstone. I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me. Saint Patrick. An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Pliny the Elder.
Article: We all learned about our flag as grew up. Maybe this article will give us some more to learn. The title is: What Does the American Flag, Symbolize? Then there comments from several people in the article on that idea. It opened by saying that the founding fathers “left their descendants with little guidance on what the nation’s flag means”. In 1777 it didn’t “explain why red, white and blue were chosen or what the stripes meant”. Over time the flag has come to reflect how Americans feel about their country. One of the comments made in the article is from the Flag Lady. Her mother use to sell the American flag going door to door on lunch breaks as a legal secretary. Now she and her son run the store called The Flag Lady. It has become one of the largest flag companies in the country. In 2001 on September 11 a photographer took a photo of a life time, three New York firefighters “removed an American flag from a yacht’s mast near the World Financial Center. They carried the flag to what would later be known as Ground Zero and hoisted it onto a pole amidst the rubble of the fallen World Trade Center towers”. This act by the firefighters “became an iconic image of American resilience during a horrific tragedy”. Raising the flag was an act of patriotism showing the strength and union of the American people. Another commentary from the article is from a woman who grew up in Georgia and enjoyed cookouts and family on the 4th of July. She spent time studying in Tunisia. She saw the flag being displayed, she saw that people seemed to feel it was anti-Muslim sentiment. She developed the feeling that “there are deeper historical, cultural and political messages behind that flag”. Another commentary was from a man who became a minister and was a chaplain on a volunteer police force. The flag was honored in that place. “The American flag reminds him of freedom and the military lives lost fighting for it”. It is a symbol of respect when the policemen faced growing disrespect for authority. In 1968 a man, a member of “the Sons of the American Revolution, moved to Findlay, Ohio. He purchased 14,000 small flags with donations from local organizations and residents and had local scouts pass them out to neighbors and friends. Another of the commentaries is from a collator of American flags that started when he was a boy. He said he use to watch his grandfather raise the flag during World War II. He learned from his grandfather how to fold and respect the flag properly. He went on to say that he bought an old flag “stashed in a paper bag at an antique sale for $40. When he examined the flag he found that it was a “hand-sewn 13-star flag”. Since his collection began he has collected over 700 historic flags. His collection has been shown in museums and he wrote a book called “A Grand Old Flag”. He said it stands for “strength, freedom, liberty, perseverance, equality, all of these things have been within our flag over time.”
Hot Dogs for dinner.
Joy
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