November 23, 2024 a thought for today, Love, poverty, and care cannot be hidden. Mexican Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “simplicity”. I like the “simplicity” of the leaves on this plant and the trailing lines of the stems. 

The next upload yesterday was “food”. I was putting together my lunch and decided to take the shot. I was hungry for a BLT but had no bacon, so I used some Spam instead.

The last upload for yesterday was “banana” . That was a hard one for me. We don’t have any banana in the house at the time. I went through some of my cook book for a photo on one that I could use as take with my camera. The only one I could find was this one with many other fruits on top of the bananas. I met the challenge anyway.

Life today. I had a bit of a hint that I may have been getting my car back yesterday, I was counting on it. Well, it didn’t happen. Dawn, from the mechanics office, called me to let me know that one of the parts had not been delivered. She called them and they said it would be there Monday. I may get it Monday afternoon. 

It has been and interesting Saturday. Lowell was coming to help me put a little work into getting the desk top back in the beginnings of working order. He was also going to share a major update to Microsoft. He has a package that he can share with family. I reminded him that I had a grocery pick up and not to come until I got home from there. I probably should have been better at planning with him so that I could have changed the pick up time. Anyway, he came early so that he could get home in time to watch the OSU game. I stayed while he started the downloads..... there was a problem with getting the install started. I went ahead and went to the store.  He was still here when I got back. It looked like I was going to have to call MicroCenter next week letting them know that things weren’t working the way they are suppose  to since we brought the computer home last Sunday. I told him to quit for the day. We’ll pick up with it later. After he left I took a few minutes to see what I could do. I got a little further but ran into another glitch so I quit for the day too. I was able to open the program but ran into some problems. We can get back to it later. I wanted to get back to my other chores for the day.

The first challenge for today “my choice” which for now this one a new series of “reelections”.  

I got the groceries put up and then got back to the laptop. 

My photos were problematic today along with the delays in timing  so I went back to my trusty archives. 

One big step for me time wise today was that I got a couple of spaces in the newsletter done. That still leaves two and a half partial pages to get done. Tangled with food pantry days and a visit one day from a person who is a “blast from the past” will be another busy week. Maybe the week after that I can get to the old/new desktop set up as well a finishing up the Christmas calendars. 

The next upload for today is “tattoo”. I don’t know who has tattoos and doesn’t so I pulled this one from my archives. It is my granddaughter with a tattoo in remembrance of her special puppy, Runtly.

The word today is practical. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. Aristotle.  The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use. Abraham Lincoln.  My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli. We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it. Pericles.  All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? Immanuel Kant.  The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Theoretical principals must sometimes give way for the sake of practical advantages. William Pitt.  The spiritual is the parent of the practical. Thomas Carlyle. The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling. Petrarch.  There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. Thomas Huxley.  

The last challenge upload is “dark and moody”. This was smoke from a cigarette (not a smoke from me) with a dark scene behind the smoke screen.  

This article might be helpful in how we rest and get some undisturbed sleep. The title is : “Why do I feel better when I wake myself up instead of relying on an alarm?”  It was written in response to that question asked by a teen. In the beginning of the story that one is in the middle of a dream and just about to be “soaring through the air” when the alarm goes off. It mentions that when questions some say that they “feel more alert than if an alarm or another person, like a parent, wakes them up”. The author is a neurologist has studied “what happens in the brain when you’re asleep”. She says her research involves helping people develop better sleep habits. She goes on to relate how the sleep cycle comes in four stages called REM (rapid eye movement). First comes drowsiness then two deeper stages called “non-REM”. Those two sages take a person deeper and deeper into sleep. The article says that “about 90 minutes after you first fall asleep, you enter the fourth stage, which is REM sleep” where most of the dreaming takes place. These cycles repeat themselves every few minutes up to four to six cycles. As the cycles go on the non-REM cycles become less often and the REM sleep more often. That’s why the timing of an alarm can be part of a problem. The article says to train the brain to wake up at a consistent time every day. The first step is going to bed at a “consistent time”. Another thing in the equation is physical activity during the day as well as avoiding caffeine.  Light is another part of this equation. To much light late in the evening “can interfere with your brain’s production of a chemical called melatonin that promotes sleep”. Morning light helps to “align” a physical rhythm with “the outside world and makes it easier to fall asleep at night”. In the winter it seems that some people need to “use light boxes to simulate sunlight, which helps them align their rhythms”.

I think I will have fish and chips in the air fryer for dinner. 

Joy

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