August 27, 2024 a thought for today, It is bad luck to fall out of a thirteenth story window on Friday. American Proverb

The first entry from yesterday is “a perfect paring” . For me, one perfect paring is tomato soup and grilled cheese.  

The second upload yesterday was “photographer’s choice”. Here is another of the park that, as you know, I often visit. Although it is touched by some of the “nasties” in this world today it is also a place with peaceful spots guarded by God’s natural gifts. I hate to not take advantage of His gifts for the antics of uneducated and pitiful ignorance of some.

The last upload for yesterday is “ice cream”. This is a Klondike bar. One of my favorites. Sometime I miss the “pushup” bars that were popular in my youth.

Life today. It is not often that I can get the complete bulletin done on Monday, that was the way it happened this week. So today is a day for catch up on little things I have put on the back burner. 

I got phone calls taken care of, an upload for church to Instagram and Facebook. Then took some time to water a few plants. I even had time to order a new book since I am near the end of this one. 

Food pantry was a bit slow today. It was a little different. We have been opening to a large group of people. Then kept busy the full hour and a half with few breaks. Today we had a good number of people, about five under what has been the norm. However, there were long periods of time between each instead of a steady flow. Actually I think that is more stressful than when it is steady. There were no glitches as there can be. Some of the other volunteers could take a few minutes to come in to the check-in/waiting room. This room is cooler than the other rooms so on a hot day like today it is a relief. 

The first upload for today is my first in a series of “windows”. This is one found in my neighborhood. I like not only chose the window itself but its surround of block and their placement and shapes. 

A photo friend of mine has established a photo a day system of her own. I have been admiring her work. I have decided that, with her permission, I am going to use some of her topic choices as my own.  She does one photo subject a week instead of a new one each day. I think in the days that I have been doing the photographer’s choice I will be using the new topics to be each day for a “work day” week for this one of my photo groups. This week I will be using the “assignment/topic” of windows. On my way home I was on the look out for interesting windows. I chose to use the image above as my first.

The next upload for today is “inspirational person”. This is my father holding my sister and me. I’m probably prejudice on the subject but he was/is the wisest man I have ever known. His inspiration to be a good person was and is always with me not only in his teachings but the way he lived his life.

The word today is made. Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Rumi.  Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts. Voltaire. There are four questions of value in life, What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. Lord Byron.  Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. Benjamin Franklin.  Such as we are made of, such we be. William Shakespeare.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon.  He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato. Life is made up of marble and mud. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Men are what their mothers made them. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade. Desiderius Erasmus.  Life is made of ever so many partings welded together. Charles Dickens. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things. William Wordsworth. Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? Benjamin Franklin.  The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them. Publilius Syrus.  Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi.  

The last upload for today is “fruit”. This is one of my favorite, cantaloupe. That along with honeydew are my favorites. 

Article: It’s sad when animals are caught in pieces of thrown out plastic as well as all of the other problems that those deposits cause. The title to the article is “the US has its first national strategy to reduce plastic pollution − here are 3 strong points and a key issue to watch”. The article stated that every person is estimated to “generate” 1.6 pounds of plastic waste daily. There is a movement in the works for 175 nations to form a “binding international treaty on plastic pollution, with a completion target of late 2024". The US contribution approaches “five areas: plastic production, product design, waste generation, waste management and plastic capture and removal”. The author of the article sees three US proposals that are important. He feels that there are to be a standard for measuring microplastics, tiny fragments that appear in the “atmosphere, drinking water sources, wild animals and human food chains”. It goes on to mention that microplastic differ in the effects they cause depending on their size and shape and whether they are found in air, food or water. I learned that all plastics contain chemicals that add strength, softness, color and fire resistance to the plastic structure. It went on to explain that “a subset of these chemicals, including bisphenols and phthalates” add to “adverse health effects. Some  plastics waste have“particularly harmful ingredients or properties, including PVC, polystyrene, polyurethane and polycarbonate, should be classified as hazardous waste”. Only about 5% of US plastic waste is recycled. Nine percent are incinerated and 86 percent are taken to landfills. There are efforts to offer more incentives for production of more “environmentally friendly products and support recycling”. Many laws that have been “adopted” toward producers responsibilities which have led to “recycling rates” increasing. It is predicted that global plastic production will double by 2040. Apparently there are efforts involving several countries “to support stringent provisions in the global plastics treaty” concerning plastic productions. Other efforts in the plastic situation are “steps that would reduce plastic waste generation, such as using resins with more recycled content and increasing recycling rates”. More to the effort is that “there is a “global list of target chemicals to restrict”.

I think it will be something from the freezer for dinner since I will be at pantry today. 

Joy

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