January 12, 2025 a thought for today, If you sleep on a quarrel it becomes less serious. Hebrew Proverb

 

A challenge and upload for yesterday was “my choice” and another of my ‘partial’ series. This is a half of one of my spider plants growing in the hydroponic method. 

The next upload for yesterday is another of the famous “food” shots. This is

the makings of my lunch for yesterday. 

The last upload for yesterday was “morning”. This is a pretty common view these early days of the winter 2025.  

Live today. I’m bad today. Just didn’t feel like forcing this 85 year old body to struggle into a winter coat to go to the car to turn on the engine (if it would not complain too) then scrape the car windows . Let the car run to warm up (inside as well as the engine). Next, to back the car out steering the wheels into a iced-over ruts in the street and proceed in the direction that the ruts would allow. To the side street and slide sideways to manage a trip down another icey path. The only problem is not going to church on a Sunday makes the rest of the week less than it could be. I watched the service through the streaming technology. It isn’t the same by far but it does help to take the edge off the otherwise empty feeling. Strangely, I could still feel the spirit but missed the family touch. 

It’s still Sunday, a day to refresh and restore, a day set aside by our Maker in the beginning of time. I will not be doing much. Just taking some of the time to reflect on this season which is also a gift from the beginning of time. 

The first upload for today is another of the “my choice” images. It is another of my “partial” series. 

Looking out the window I see a white world with almost no movement. There’s very little to distract the thinking from what is the present and its meaning. 

I had to put some ice melt out earlier so that Sweet Pea wouldn’t slip on the ice in the back yard and possibly tear another ACL.

The next upload for today is “shopping”. I happened to capture this one when I was picking up mv curb side “shopping”. 

The word today is result.  Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts. Soren Kierkegaard.  Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. Aristotle.  In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes. Julius Caesar.  Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education. Victor Hugo.  What is important in life is life, and not the result of life. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Forward, as occasion offers. Never look round to see whether any shall note it... Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle. Marcus Aurelius.  Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. Thomas Jefferson.  Achievements, seldom credited to their source, are the result of unspeakable drudgery and worries. Richard Wagner.  Wherever we go, wherever we remain, the results of our actions follow us. Gautama Buddha.  When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes. Thomas A. Edison.  True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable. Jeremy Collier.  Every sin is the result of a collaboration. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. Henry Ward Beecher.  

Another winter upload. This assignment was titled “what I see”. I glanced out this  window and saw this walker and his furry friends. I see him/them every morning about the same time as I sit at the computer ant glance out the window.. 

I think this article was written just to fit the times we are experiencing right now. The title is:  That Arctic blast can feel brutally cold, but how much colder than ‘normal’ is it really? It began talking about the weather we have been having this winter so far. The article went on to share what some of the states were facing. North Dakota suffered 20 degrees below zero, moving on into the Texas to temperatures in the teens. There have ben “snow and ice storm across the middle of the country added to the winter chill”. They say that “forecasters warned that temperatures could be “10 to more than 30 degrees below normal”. Much of the rest of the article was discussing what “normal” means when it comes weather temperatures. An explanation for that is that what qualifies for forecasts has been changing over the years as the planet warms. Something they do is use an average of a 30 year temperature range. Every ten years the “normals” get changed. They say the current normal is from the years1991-2020. There is another thing to consider the “temperatures have been rising over the past century, and the trend has accelerated since about 1980", brought on by “the mining and burning of fossil fuels that increase carbon dioxide and methane in the atmosphere”. So in explaining the cold snap this winter it  appears to be “colder and more extreme than if it were compared to an earlier 30-year average”. It goes on to say that people under 40 or so may feel that this might fit the results of that method of measurement. The problem is it doesn’t take in the warming that has been going on on the earth. So this “cold snap” is “a reminder of the persistent and growing presence of global warming, even in the midst of a cold air outbreak.”

Maybe a pizza out of the freezer for dinner or saved and frozen spaghetti and meatballs. 

Joy 

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