April 26, 2025 a thought for today, People's eyes say words that the tongue cannot pronounce. Native American Crow Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “glimmer micro moment”. This was taken just as sundown was occurring. I was letting Sweet Pea out and notice the light in an opening in the clouds. 

The next upload was “a photo I would love to share”. I enjoy seeing how church to the roof of the building. This is one down the street from my house.

The last upload for yesterday was “favorite flower”. I don’t know that I have a “favorite” flower. Most flowers have a particular time that they show their best (don’t we all). There seems to be the time that they are the “favorite”. These Iris were at their perfect  time. 

Life today. It was good to be back with Dorothy yesterday on finishing the newsletter. She has not been able to help with them for about four months. Not only did we work on the newsletters together each month we were able to chat and enjoy each others company for an hour every month, just the two of us. I missed her all those months. It was good to see her looking well. She said she was glad to get out for a while. She and I are close to the same age so our memories correspond comfortably. There aren’t many people left at church in our age group.

The first upload for today is another of the “glimmer micro moment”.  This leaf seemed at it best when this image was created. 

Ok, I thought spring was finally here buuuut....we are back to “cooler” temps today. It’s not cold but cooler and a bit of a let down.

There’s nothing major on the agenda today. I have already accomplished a couple of small tasks that I have let go for a while. We still have curbside pick up and put away. Then I think I will coast the rest of the day. 

This upload challenge was “my choice” one of my architectural design or features. It’s not a part of a building but seems to me a type of a architecture. I chose to see it as the definition of architecture (shelter, security, and function, but also to express cultural identity, create aesthetic beauty, and enhance human well-being). 

The word is within.  Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul. Saint Augustin. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius.  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.  Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson.  He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. John Milton.  We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves. Galileo Galilei.  What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. Henry David Thoreau.  Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us. Charles Spurgeon.  The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  We sail within a vast sphere, ever drifting in uncertainty, driven from end to end. Blaise Pascal.  O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side! William Shakespeare.  The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all. Origen.  Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle.  There is no witness so terrible and no accuser so powerful as conscience which dwells within us. Sophocles.  We carry within us the wonders we seek without us. Thomas Browne.  Adventure is not outside man; it is within. George Eliot.  

The last upload was “potato”. I had no idea how to present a photo of a photo that would have some kind of artistic qualities. This potato was the only one I had on had and has seen its better days. I decided that leaving the “eyes” in tact. 

Article: I figured I could learn something from this one. This story is about a “A Quiet Migration of Millions Is Happening Over Columbus After Sunset Each Night”. There are “millions of birds” flying in the sky. The article mentioned that we are in the middle of a “thick of spring bird migration season”. It went on to explain with radar technology and a tool like “BirdCast” track the “massive nocturnal movements” of 200 to 300 million birds across the US in a single night can be measured. I learned that central Ohio is “part of a major flyway that birds use to make their journey north” at night between late April and mid May. This movement is tracked by Doppler radar. I also learned that they fly “usually between 3,000 and 5,000 feet up”.  We can’t see them but according to the reports they are there. It is said that they “navigate” by the stars, moonlight, and magnetic fields. Apparently lights can confuse and disorient them. This disorientation can cause them by the lights attracting then which can cause to “crash into buildings or become exhausted and vulnerable to other urban threats”. So the article says that experts say to help the birds in the migration “just turn off your lights”. This act not only helps you save energy it make a “real difference” for the life of the migrating birds. 

I think we will have hamburgers and fries for dinner. 

Joy 

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