February 5, 2025 a thought for today, Every answer can result in a new question. Yiddish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “d is for...” Dandelion. I happened to find these two seemingly hiding behind this mass of weeds. The color is what gave them away. 

The next upload for yesterday was “fill the frame”. As I was waiting at the light I noticed what seemed to be even heavier “construction” than has been going on for the past year. So I made a quick shot. Sweet Pea noticed too. 

Sweet Pea posed for another shot that I needed yesterday. This one is “macro”. She moved and moved and I shot and shot finally able to capture this one. 

Life today. It has been an eventful day. I had two important events planned for today....they bumped into each other and still got done in good time. Lowell was taking me to complete the change over of my “new” car. We went to the BMV in Grove City and were taken care of immediately. Tami and Andy are helping me with a problem I am having with the GE refrigerator I have. It is making an unusual and irritating sound. Yesterday, They got a water filter replacement for me hoping that would do the trick. It didn’t. Lowell and I turned the frig off last night hoping that in itself would do the trick or give us further indication. Tami and Andy came back this morning, at the same time Lowell came for help with my errand. We turned the frig back on. Together they took the back off the freezer with no new indicators of a problem. Lowell and I left. Tami and Andy stayed to close things up. When Lowell and I got back, Tami and Andy had finished up, let us know by email, locked up for me and left. The frig began making the noise again after Lowell and I were back here for a few minutes. I am going to have to call a repair person before there is some possible kind of more damage. 

My first upload for today is actually for the photo group that I belong to that has a photo a day upload four times a month. This one is “black and white”. I took this one when Lowell took me to breakfast this morning. It put me in mind of the “old fashioned” ice cream soda counter. 

 I got the last minute adjustments done to the bulletin earlier, before the others got here. I got a couple of the photos I needed while Lowell and I were out. 

The next upload for today is “year of the Boar”. I had reach for this one. I had no idea what to use. So I looked what the year of the Boar may signify and used that as my starting point for an image. So this “year of the Boar” image signified these  characteristics that I found in my search...sincere, noble, easy going, hard working, peace, loving. This is one of our volunteers serving a one of the weekly free meals at our church. 

The word for today is separate.  Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau.  Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. Seneca.  Ethics and power are separate. Robert Greene.  From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books. Pleased with the 'Pilgrim's Progress,' my first collection was of John Bunyan's works in separate little volumes. Benjamin Franklin.  Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. Ulysses S. Grant.  We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin.  Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it. Akhenaton.  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.  Nothing hath separated us from God but our own will, or rather our own will is our separation from God. William Law.  

The next upload is “e is for...” I used the word evergreen to fit this assignment challenge. These are some branches on a the pair of evergreens in my backyard. 

Article: A discussion of all kinds of the feeling called love enabled at our birth is educational. This story reaches back into history. The title is “Friendship, a covenant, romance – no matter what you call it, David’s love for Jonathan is one of the Bible’s most beautiful”. It was research and written by a Lecturer, and scholar, in Religious Studies. In the article it is related that “the Hebrew of the Bible can communicate a rich sensation of love”. The love of man and woman, love of all human beings for one another, and the love of God for all people. The author goes on to say he believes the “greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense devotion between the warrior Jonathan and David, who later became king of Israel and Judah”. There are many stories in the bible about love in many forms. The one he wanted mention in this article is the one, friendship or love, about David and Jonahan.  He begins his this story by that emotion by saying: “the Hebrew Bible is one David is said to have pronounced for Jonathan and his father, Saul, the Israelite king”. At the beginning of this story David, as a young shepherd, “volunteers to fight Goliath”, in this story is a “towering giant of a soldier” and slays him. Then David speak to Saul.  The book of 1 Samuel relates, “the body of Jonathan was bound to the body of David, and Jonathan loved him as he loved his own self.”  To explain this feeling this story says the Hebrew word “nefesh” can be translated to “body” and “is a famously ambiguous one, “nefesh,” usually rendered as “soul,” “life” or “personality.” It is mentioned that some translations of the passage means that Jonathan and David form a covenant or pact. Their loyalty is tested and Saul becomes jealous of David’s “increasing success”.  Nonetheless the bond of the young men remains steadfast. Eventually Jonathan dies in a battle and Saul commits suicide. David then writes a “euogy poem” in memory of both men. His description of Jonathan is “striking” in the poem as he says “I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; greatly beloved were you to me; your love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women. How the mighty have fallen, and the weapons of war perished!” The word “ahav” is used meaning “greatly beloved”: “na'am,” suggesting “love,” “affection” or “pleasantness.” David had many wives, and his life was “fraught with tragedy”. “Nevertheless, tradition reveres him as the greatest king of Israel and Judah”. This author quotes “the sages of the Mishnah”....”all love that depends on something, when that something ceases, the love fails; but all love that does not depend on anything will never cease”... “Such was the love of David and Jonathan.”

The last challenge upload for today is “portrait”. Here she is again, Sweet Pea. She is sitting in a room in direct line of my desk chair, about about 20 feet away. I couldn’t help wanting to capture this look as she seemed to be questioning me for some reason. 

It is going to be something from the freezer for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

  ravages of time gone by some not so gently