March 11, 2025 a thought for today, There are many ways to God.  Native American Arapaho 

My first upload for yesterday was “abundance”. I thought about a cupboard of canned goods, I have that at the moment. Then went on with my thinking, finally deciding on my “abundance” of different yarns.

The next upload was “go”. This only thing I could think of to express the word “go” was something to “go” with so I chose the tires on my car. 

The third upload for today is “tie, belt or buckle”. I didn’t have a wide variety of items to select from so I grabbed the first person who had stopped by and was wearing a belt with a buckle. 

The last photo challenge upload for today, this is one of the days for four uploads was, “textures”. My patio needs updated. The bricks need replaced. So I used then as the prop for this image. The weeds and pebbles add to the textures. 

Life today. It has been an interesting day. I met a friend from and at church who said she would like to share the clearing of the streaming memory card to an archived drive. We decided to meet at church so that I could show her how to do it. Since the process takes a good deal of time she would like to do it at home. She brought her lab top so we could get it ready. In the process of setting the computer up for her we found that she would need to get a couple of things to add to her supplies. She needs a USB hub. She has already has an external hard drive that hasn’t been used yet. She also needs a memory card reader. We have one that belongs to the church which we have been using so she won’t need to get that. If she gets the external hard drive set up, it may need formatting, all she will need to purchase is the USB hub. I looked at some on Amazon and sent her a suggestion for one along with adapters to the connections. 

The first upload for today is “use your imagination”. I chose that phrase to mean “my choice” so I chose this image from my archives. 

When I got home the pile of siding had been picked from our front lawn. I’m sure the neighbors are as glad as I am to see it gone after three days. After a good look at the “completed” siding job Lowell discovered that the colors on part of it don’t match and the job was “slopshop”. So he negotiated with the manager and was able to have it redone so that it is right before payment is completed. That will be in a few days. 

We are getting some tastes of spring finally. I hope it is here to stay. 

We have noticed that our cars are lightly covered with dust and grit. The news says it is due to air quality in another part of the country ‘The dust traveled hundreds of miles in the sky before finally falling not just in Ohio but also in numerous locations east of the Mississippi River.’ I haven’t taken mine to a car wash yet. I am hoping for some “cleansing” rain. Or I may ask Brian to wash it with the hose in the drive way. 

The next upload for today is “senses”. I did my best to get a good shot of Sweet Pea’s face showing ears, eyes, mouth and nose. I hope I got hearing, seeing, tasting and added her nose for the sense to touch. She is a herding dog and like to direct with the touch of her nose. 

The word for today is task.  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi.  As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task. Diogenes.  I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed. Abraham Lincoln.  To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton.  Light is the task where many share the toil. Homer.  You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task. John Keats.  No one should fear to undertake any task in the name of our Saviour, if it is just and if the intention is purely for His holy service. Christopher Columbus.  He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Do thine own task, and be therewith content. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly. Plato.  To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer. Thomas Aquinas.  Your task is to stand straight; not to be held straight. Marcus Aurelius.  

The next photo is “wheel”. I found this one when I was cruising through some of my oldest archives.

Article: The title to this article looked related to current events so I had a look. The title is “George Washington, a real estate investor and successful entrepreneur, knew the difference between running a business and running the government”. The article suggests that it may be a good idea if modern politics take a look at a “very different example of the nation’s first chief executive while he was in office. The first businessman to become president”. That president was George Washington. He “was a businessman with a large real estate portfolio”. He not only owned property in Virginia and six other states he also had “extensive claims to Indigenous land in the Ohio River Valley”. Due to those kinds of investment he supported “big transportation projects”, was actively interested in invention of the steamboat. He also founded “a precursor to the builders of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal”. I also read in the article that he was a farmer.  Above all, Washington was a farmer. After his second term as president he built a “profitable distillery”. At that time he owned slaves and expected to be obeyed. As president of the United States he knew being president was another matter. As the article went on in 1790 at the end of his first term he acknowledged the “difference in a letter to the English historian Catharine Macaulay. Macaulay had visited Mount Vernon several years before”. In that letter he described as “the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact.”  He went on to say that the job of government was accommodation as well as laws. His powers in office were limited. He learned and felt that things that had to be done as president should be “done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness”. The article went on to say that dealing with Congress “debated” with him noting that he needed “Senate confirmation to appoint heads of executive departments”. Established matters in the Constitution could be decided by Congress as  to “what powers the president can legally exercise and what powers he – or, someday, she – cannot”. Toward the end of the article it was noted the Washington “did not always like having to share power with Congress....But he realized working with Congress was the only way to create a federal government that really was efficient, with each branch carrying out its defined powers, as the founders intended”.  The article ended by saying that those are the “checks and balances, the United States was – and is – a government based on compromise between the three branches.....To his credit, Washington was quick to learn that lesson.”

It will be soup and sandwich for dinner. 

Joy

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