October 4, 2024 a thought for today, Your feet will bring you to where your heart is. Traditional Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was another of my “tools” series. This is some odds and ends from my “silverware” drawer. 

The next upload for yesterday was “rocks”. I drove around looking for different
places to find mounds of rocks. This is one of about four that I shot for images to upload. 

The last upload for yesterday was “a feather”. I try to snap shots that may not be apparent every day any time I see them. So this is one I shot a while back. 

Life today. The printing yesterday morning went without problems, well, one paper jam. Bob G. was there when I got there so we had sometime to chat before he left. Shortly after he left, more activity was beginning with the food delivery for our food pantry.  Last night’s Outreach meeting was productive and it felt good to be with some of my peers. I did have to have a friend pick me up since the meeting wouldn’t have been over before dark. The good part of that is we have a little more time to bond as friends.  

Today has been on the ‘good’ side too. It is clear of any deadline activities so I am able to “wing it” as I feel the urge. 

Sue had some paper work to take care of and needed transportation. Sweet Pea seems to look forward to Sue’s need for a ride because she gets to go too. I am available today so it all worked out. 

The first upload for today is “bedtime”. Sweet Pea finds this body shape extremely comfortable. 

The weather has even a heavier feel of autumn these past few days. The temps are down in the morning with rises each day a little lower than the day before, mostly. It’s a beautiful season. The sunshine and the colorful leaves have lifted my spirit (a special Hand absolutely at work?).

I did have some other “back burner” things I had hoped to accomplish today since it’s Friday, the end of the week and a relaxed time. Those will wait since the other things were more important for now. 

The next upload today is one for my series of “tools”. This was one of Bob’s collections of different arrangements of necessary tools. 

The word for today is mere.  Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson. Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Johannes Brahms.  When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu. How good is man's life, the mere living! How fit to employ all the heart and the soul and the senses forever in joy! Robert Browning. One time, I was given an essay topic: to describe a perfect horse, whom the mere sight of the rider's whip would make obedient. I depicted this perfect horse throwing his rider at the sight of the whip. Marquis de Lafayette.  Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Thomas Jefferson.  When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion. George Eliot.  How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for. Terence.  Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket; and do not pull it out, and strike it, merely to show that you have one. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield.  

My last upload for today is “a mountain view”. Since I don’t live in the vicinity of mountains, I used the upper level of my house as a “mountain top”. This is one of the views from that area. 

Article: It’s different to be seeing that so far back in history there was a belief that we “damage nature we damage ourselves”. Here is summary of what scientists found on this matter. The article is about a belief of the Myan people. Side note: Two thousand years ago, the ancient Maya developed one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. The title to the article is “Centuries ago, the Maya storm god Huracán taught that when we damage nature, we damage ourselves”. They believed that “everything in the universe, from the natural world to everyday experiences, was part of a single, powerful spiritual force”. Something that was a little fuzzy to me was mentioned here they “believed that various gods were just manifestations of that force”. Huracán was considered the ‘Heart of Sky’ by the Maya peoples who today live in the southern highlands of Guatemala. The name probably used to “describe the destructive power of storms”. It was believed that he existed as three persons “Thunderbolt Huracán, Youngest Thunderbolt and Sudden Thunderbolt”. Each with different types of lightning bolts some that could destroy the earth. There were other types of gods in the thoughts of the Myans and weather conditions. The ancient Mayan saw lightning as raw power, it was “basic to all creation and destruction”.They believed that “power was something you did, not something you had” and that power was ever shifting. Further that there were no boundaries between space and time and the forces of nature, “malleable and interdependent”. According to the end of the article we should consider that  “human beings are not independent from nature but part of it......when we damage (control) nature, we damage ourselves.” There was a lot in this article that mystified me, I bit off more than I could chew or had time to study more deeply.

We are going to do DoorDash again tonight. We have tried it from Wendy’s and Josies. Tonight we will try Rallies. 

Joy

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