August 3, 2024 a thought for today, Sympathy is a little medicine to soothe the ache in another's heart. Latin Proverb

 

My first upload for yesterday was “fresh”. This is one of my peppermint plants. The leaves are fresh tastes to tea. 

The nest upload yesterday was “hamburger”. That one is an easy one for me
although I usually get a fish sandwich instead of a hamburger. 

The third challenge upload yesterday was “photographer’s choice”. As stopped at a light on Broad Street I was this piece of construction that is being implemented along the highway. I like the frame it give into a “new world”.  

Life today. Yesterday was a catch up day. It wasn’t my best but it turned out on the productive side. I have a chest cold and took some over the counter meds for it that I have not experienced before. It made me drowsy so it slowed me down more than I am comfortable with. 

I was looking through my digital archives trying to find a photo that I could make into a coloring page when I came across an old photo of the outside of our church. It had some beautiful trees that we have had cut down over the years since I took the photo. For me, it was kind of sad. The trees and the surrounding lawn gave the church a “stately” look. Now there are no trees or bushes, just the ornate architecture of the structure. I sent it by email to the congregants for “old time sake”. 

Sweet Pea and I picked up the curb side grocery order earlier and then drove around in search of some photos I need for today. 

The first challenge today is “it’s all about the detail”. To me the sad plight of this person is in the detail. It alone tells much of his story.
 

The groceries are all put away now so I am getting ready to make another set of meat balls for Sweet Pea’s treats. The treats last about a month and she likes both one ground chicken and one  ground beef (they’re small). It use to be just ground beef but when she had the ACL tear her diet was off. She didn’t want to eat or spit up when she did so I started giving her chicken. 

The weather has been ‘up and down’ of late some rain, not the kind we need since we have had a near drought but some down fall at least. The heat has been pretty steady though along with some “stuffiness”. 

The second upload today is “party”. I haven’t been to a party lately so I chose this one because it is a place for parties all day long.

The word today is improve.  Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies! St. Jerome.  I hold that while man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind. Abraham Lincoln. Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. Soren Kierkegaard. Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. Benjamin Franklin.  He who asks of life nothing but the improvement of his own nature... is less liable than anyone else to miss and waste life. Henri Frederic Amiel.  The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact. John Quincy Adams.  Human improvement is from within outward. James Anthony Froude. 

The last upload for today is “a busy café”. This is a well known stop for many people and seems popular place to visit 

Article: I think this article presented itself at the right time since our Olympics are going on right now.  I was interested in the part of the title that said “believed they were more than sport – they were a religion of perfection and peace” particularly the word religion grabbed me. And especially because it was researched and written by two professors of religion. So I decided to see where it took me in one of my life lessons for today. I don’t watch the Olympics every minute, only in glimpses, but I do admire that it is so many countries of this earth together in one place in some semblance of peace, freedom and friendships. The founder of the modern Olympics said it “was a new type of religion – one shorn of gods, yet transcendent all the same”. He also called it “global harmony”.....and pronounced it “unachievable through politics or sectarian religion”. Pierre de Coubertin desired “to resurrect the Olympic Games after 1,500 years of dormancy”. He was concerned about challenges and changes in the 20th century. The article mentioned that he was concerned that “industrialization was rendering young men physically and morally weak....and that traditional religion was relied on less and less as a panacea for the world’s ills”. He considered the “ancient Greek ideal of mind and body in harmony”. He hoped the renewal of the games would bring some of the “enchantment from ancient Greece”. It’s a goal “of the U.N. and the IOC is to make the world a better and more peaceful place”. The article mentioned that no god or God are featured but the Olympics are designed for a “kind of civil religion that binds”.  The article further relates that Mr. Coubertin didn’t foresee “the role that money and politics” would affect the games which is “in clear violation of Coubertin’s vision”. 

I think we are having taco salad for dinner. 

Joy

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