April 18, 2025 a thought for today, If you wonder often, the gift of understanding will come. Native American Arapaho Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “a dozen or so”. This is a bakers dozen or a dozen or so. I thought it fit the season....eggs I mean. 

The next upload was “spoon”. The spoon alone looked a little lonely so a added the tangerine (for the bit of color too). 

The last upload for yesterday was “glimmer micro moment”. I liked the look of these two tulips against the dozen or so tulip leaves. 

Life today. Since the bulletin and Easter dedication sheets are done and dispersed I have a “free” day. With that in mind, I put a little more concentration into the newsletter. I got the calendar pages, page 2 and the top of page 3 completed. I have one more page that is left to me as the “editor” as well as information from three people to get it completed. I am certain I will be getting one of those pages early next week. The other two are up in the air. If I don’t hear from them by Tuesday afternoon I will have to find “filler”, at least I have two fillers in mind as possibles.   

Sue left for a visit with the twins. Then Sweet Pea and I went out in search of photos. We found all three for the day with a couple of extras for the archives. When we got back home I went to the “darkroom” and keyworded each of my shots, cataloged them,“formatted” the ones I chose to use and  placed them in the calendars for the portfolio. 

The first upload for today is “lines”. This is another image challenge where there are a lot of choices all around us. I took make several captures. I chose this one from my selection. I like shadow. 

Spring is still “struggling” to come in full force. Today, so far, is one of the good starts, but rain and cooler temps are back in the weather men’s conversations. I am enjoying what there is right now. I still haven’t taken the electric blanket off the bed though I haven’t used it for several weeks. I am also eager to open some screens. I like at least a month with no furnace and no AC, only screens fully open. 

The second upload for today is “glimmer micro moment”. It is really a bit of a minute when this “basket” is in the air for its useful purpose. 

The word is who.  There is nothing impossible to him who will try. Alexander the Great.  To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Thomas Aquinas.  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln.  Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. Rumi.  Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. Voltaire.  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. Thomas Carlyle.  He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. Sun Tzu.  The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. Marcus Aurelius.  Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel.  The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity. Ulysses S. Grant.  A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. Charles Spurgeon.  Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal. 

The last photo challenge today is “pointing at the sky”. These tree limbs reach for the sky every hour of every day. 

Article: This is a little on a public relations kind of story. Maybe a little lighter than some of the articles I have shared.  The title is: Jack Hanna pet sits aging dog at Columbus Zoo in documentary coming soon to theaters”. It’s a story about a man who learned that his dog only had a short time to live so he decided to take her, Abby, on “a bucket list trip across the country, including Disney World, a Las Vegas casino and the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium”. While they were at the zoo Abby met Jack Hanna, the trip was made before Jack retired. This story is now coming out in the form of a documentary. The trip was planed for a three week journey but turned into a three year journey. Abby’s health issues changed and her life was extended from the first prognosis. On the stop at the Columbus Zoo Abby’s owner asked Jack Hanna if he was pet sit Abby. He asked Jack if he “has any experience watching animals”. Jack answered "Well, I don’t know if you know this or not, but I’ve worked at the Columbus Zoo for 40 years, almost, so I have a little bit of experience, yeah". From another article I found that Abby and her owner, Mark, went and Abby got to experience things...“from captaining a yacht to riding It’s a Small World, making friends with a dolphin and a deer, even peeing on the world’s tallest trees”. In the related article Mark said “we realize that all they really want is quality time together...... Abby starts aging in reverse”. Their three-week bucket list trip “morphs into the three-year journey of their lives!”  

It’s DoodDash or GrubHub for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

                           all alone and feeling lonely