August 13, 2024 a thought for today, A person slow to anger has great understanding; one with a quick temper exalts foolishness. Hebrew Proverb

My first challenge for yesterday was “wild”. I’m not in a position to see many “wild” things. One of my grand children’s family have deer in the front yard which would be a great shot but I’m not there when they visit. 

The second shot for yesterday was “photographer’s choice”. Of course this is Sweet Pea. Notice no face forward, she is not a fan of photo shots so to get photos of her it is catch as catch can. 

The last photo upload for yesterday was my “favourite food”. I love food. I just don’t always have my favorites right on hand for the daily photos. I also like snacks and here are some of my best. 

Life today. I have another “relaxed” day. Everything with a deadline is done. I could get started on the newsletter....or not, maybe tomorrow. 

The cleaning lady is here. So the house will be nice and clean and shiny. 

We have another party today. This one is for one of my great grandson’s. Most of the to-do list should be done by the time I get picked up to go to the party. Sue is visiting her great grand daughters so she will be coming to the party from a different direction.  

The first upload for today is “photographer’s choice”. This is from the archives. It was shot when my Christmas cactus was in bloom. 

The weather has cooled off some. This has been one of the hottest summers I can remember. The lawns are not as green as the normally are.

My next upload for today is  “slice”. I didn’t have a lot of time to look for photos today so I visited my archives where I safe them for such occasions and memories. This one was from another birthday party a few years ago.

The word for today is leave.  Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. Benjamin Franklin.  Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  When words leave off, music begins. Heinrich Heine.  Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles.  Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus.  Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. Confucius.  The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate! Robert Browning.  Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will. Pythagoras.  Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve. Francis of Assisi.  Some books leave us free and some books make us free. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton.  Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Benjamin Franklin.  

The last upload for today is “beauty”. This is another from the archives. It is one of the iris’ from my front yard “garden”. 

This article title sounded like something to look into.....life and play as it turns out comparisons with Darwin’s ideas. The title is “At its core, life is all about play − just look at the animal kingdom”. It starts out describing a drawing made by a child, 10 or 11 years old, some time near 1857 that is displayed a the Cambridge University Library. This drawing has a name it is called “The Battle of the Fruit and Vegetable Soldiers”.  It shows a soldier on a carrot and a soldier on a grape both sitting on horses as stick figures. The child was the son of Charles Darwin. The drawing was done on the “back of a page of a draft of “On the Origin of Species,” Darwin’s masterwork and the foundational text of evolutionary biology”. Mr. Darwin allowed his children to draw on the back pages of some of his left over drafts. At the home of the Darwin family where the children were raised there was “furnished with a rope swing hung over the first-floor landing and a portable wooden slide that could be laid over the main stairway”. The country side of the home was “as open-air laboratory and playground”. According to the article “play also has a role in Darwin’s theory of natural selection”. Natural selection with “no goal, no direction”. The purpose of the article seems to show a “ contrast to foraging and hunting – behaviors with clearly defined goals – play is likewise undirected”. The article states that animals including humans “constantly adjust their movements in response to changes in circumstances”.  It is mentioned that an animal at play can be innovative so that it ends in “new ways to forage and hunt”. There is competition and cooperation in play. Play-fighting can lead to new ways for animals to “learn about and practice deception” in times of survival.

There is a party this afternoon with food.

Joy

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