September 12, 2024 a thought for today, Do not prophesy to the man who can see further than you can. Japanese Proverb

The first challenge and upload for yesterday was “grandparent (s)”. This is one I took many years ago of one of my husband’s grandmothers. 

The second upload for yesterday is part of my series of “doors".. This one is the side entrance of a church close to my home. 

The last upload for yesterday was “a candle”. I don’t have too many candles here in the house. This one was a Christmas gift. 

Life today. Here’s another of those days that is running away from me. I got to the church to print early because I knew there were a few other things on my agenda for today. 

No one was there when I got there. So I had a head start and quietly. I got the printing started then took a few minutes to look around for some Upper Room magazines that we can’t seem to find. It is possible that we didn’t get the shipment last month. I thought we had and I had taken to the church. But I could be remembering the last shipment three month ago. We get them every other month. 

After I left the church, I had to make a stop at Kroger for some meds. As I was leaving Lowell called and said he needed to stop by the house to look for something he thought he had left there. I told him I was on my way. 

My first upload for today is one of my series this week of “doors”. This is another I see in my neighborhood as I drive through on the way to church or on a photo excursion.

I got the computer started and attempted to catch up on a couple of things before I had to get ready to go for my hair cut appointment. 

After the appointment I picked up lunch, got home and back to the computer. I took a break to start the meat loaf and start the laundry. All of this in between a couple of meaningless phone calls.  

The next upload for today is “jar”. I didn’t feel like taking a photo of just a plain jar so I cut some of Sue’s sage plant to give a touch of ornament.

The word today is necessary. To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas.  To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary. Abraham Lincoln.  Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. Robert Louis Stevenson.  Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence. William Blake.  Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard.  If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt.  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. James Madison.  It is necessary to keep one's compass in one's eyes and not in the hand, for the hands execute, but the eye judges. Michelangelo.  To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer. Martin Luther.  Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas.  Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable. William Samuel Johnson. The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Voltaire. 

This last upload for today is “family tradition”. This is my favorite family tradition....any kind of gathering that includes all of us or as many are in the area and not on maneuvers or on duty that the time

Article: Here is another article about plastic with some of its problems and some possible solutions...or not. The title is “Making fuels from plastics in Newaygo, Michigan, would be controversial – here’s why”. It starts out by relating that humans generate plastic waste at “more than 400 million metric tons a year”. Though plastic is beneficial in area as keeping “food fresh longer to enhancing medical hygiene and making transportation more energy-efficient” there is a down side to its beneficial life line. So efforts to find its usefulness in the end are being studied and tried.  There are several recycling projects that also benefit human life styles. There still seems fo be uninformed or ignorant waste of the “used” practice ending in waterways, trash along highways and landfills. In those areas they “damages ecosystems and harms human health”. One way that is being studies is “chemical recycling, which converts the waste into new products by breaking the plastics down at the molecular level”.  On some levels this is “controversial” since it can be “worse on the environment”. In 2023 an area in Michigan started a plan that caused some discussion that “raised questions about what form of chemical recycling is planned, and whether it will be good for the community and environment”.  This particular plan of chemical recycling would act to be “converted (the plastic) into precursors for fuels”. Some professors of chemistry “think that making fuel from plastic waste is the wrong way to deal with this problem”. Their claim is that “not only does it harm the climate and pollute air and water, but it’s also a stretch to even call it recycling”. This process for “recycling” the plastic as energy is called “pyrolysis....involves heating waste plastics to break them down into a mixture of small molecules, typically hydrocarbons”. These products are then “sold on the commodity chemical marketplace, replacing oils derived from crude petroleum. The most commonly suggested use of pyrolysis oil is diesel or jet fuel, both of which generate greenhouse gases when burned”. That would be half of the recycled product the other half would be “transformed into a complex mixture of light hydrocarbons, which would then be burned on-site to provide energy to operate (a processing) plant”. There is a apparently a legal distinction as to whether this method is considered “recycling”. This is slowing down the process from continuing. One hang up is that “there isn’t sufficient clean plastic waste available for them to use in the process”. The effective word being “clean”. Several studies have “concluded that  that using chemical recycling to make new plastics can benefit the climate by reducing greenhouse gas emissions – but that chemical recycling to produce fuels has the opposite effect”. So as a “final conclusion” it would be that after “all other uses for a plastic product have been exhausted, chemically recycling it to generate new plastic or other durable products can address the entangled problems of plastic waste and climate change”. 

Meat loaf sounds good for dinner. 

Joy

                a very normal activity....filling the tank