March 31, 2025a thought for today, Every fire is the same size when it begins. Native American Seneca Proverb
Yesterdays first upload was “map”. I don’t have any modern maps around the house right now. If I need it I use GPS but I stay pretty close to home. This map is from one of my bibles.
“faceless portraits” as the upload.
Life today. A bit about yesterday...the church message was delivered by the person I have commented on with a positive description earlier. He did it again. He led us through the message in simple and fully expressive terms. Sometimes with a glimpse of ancient history and other common experiences tied nicely to feelings and the life we live, or ought to live, today. The subject was “Today is Friday but Sunday is a comin’”. For a short and thought-provoking word...think of Good Friday leading to Easter Sunday. How about, Christianity and it’s meanings. As part of the message, how about Christianity having meaning everyday not just Friday and Sunday. Even his choice of one of the hymns fit like a glove, Were You There (when they crucified my Lord). When I took some writing courses a few years ago, we were taught to keep the writing (and therefore speeches) in simple and complete descriptive terms so it was clearly understandable by the majority if not all listeners. Because of that, one of many fortunes, in my educational part of life developed a habit of considering young high school people among the people I wanted to “speak” to. In his message yesterday and his others in the past, I believe this “target” (and the others) was/were smack dab on. There was a first time visitor in the congregation yesterday who stood and said, after the “sermon”, "she had been searching for a place" and it seemed to be what she was looking for by way of her comments about his message.
I over extended my to-do list today. I guess I was having visions of grandeur as I added things to the list. I thought “I can squeeze this one in”. Then day light came. I began on the list. Good start. Than an email “can you send this email”, a bit later another “can you find that bulletin insert from several months ago”. Oh yeah, I had to go outside to bring that trash can up from the street. I had planned to stay in today, not go out of the house. By eleven I was hungry, I asked Sweet Pea if we should go get some lunch....of course she indicated yes with picking up her Angry Bird toy and running to the back door.
I got some things on the list that had to be done today accomplished at least in part. The sink of dirty dishes for instance, loaded the dish washer. The close out of my monthly photo a day calendars (it’s the last day of the month). Along with that there has been a pretty good start on some of the other items on the list.
It’s late in the day and much of todays to-do list will have to go to the “back burner”. Tomorrow will be another short delay due to an early morning appointment.
The next upload is “meadow or field”. This is another of my photos as I traveled to Mt. Sterling Ohio.
The word is waste. Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one. Marcus Aurelius. Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste. Benjamin Franklin. With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. William Lloyd Garrison. The world is wide, and I will not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum. Frances E. Willard. Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess. Samuel Johnson. Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time. Victor Hugo. There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. Benjamin Disraeli. I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. William Shakespeare. Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers. William Wordsworth. A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. Henry David Thoreau. The world is too much with us; late and soon, getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours. William Wordsworth. The training of children is a profession, where we must know how to waste time in order to save it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity. Thomas Love Peacock. We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day. William Shakespeare.
Article: Here’s another of the many stories about animals with and for their human companions. It touches on the work some can and will do. The title of the article “Living the good life, Beloved Pickerington police K-9 Foe retires after 8 years”. His name is Foe. He retired from his career of 8 years of “finding missing people, narcotics and evidence; arresting suspects; and more” with the possibility of even giving his life. Remember eight years in a dogs life may be over half his life. During his time of service he paid visits to local schools and had photos taken with kids along with his official duties. When interviewed his handler said he had never owned a dog but had “always dreamt of being a K-9 handler”. Further in the interview he called “being Foe’s handler the most incredible experience of his 14-year law enforcement career”. He said as much as he “loved having Foe by his side at work, he knew it was time for his partner, who turns 10 in May, to hang up his badge”. (If my math is right I think that would make Foe about seventy or eighty years old in human years.) His handler noticed that Foe seemed to be more tried after a work shift or a training workout at home and “recovery was taking longer”. Foe’s handler was able to purchase him from the city for $1. The dog still “shadows” the handler at home even in retirement. Foe now spends his life “keeping a watchful eye” on his two young human house mates as well as playing chase with them and laying next to them for “tummy time”. There will be a new dog “officer” for that department but a different handler will be given the chance for his experience. The article ended with mentioning that the K-9 program is good “not only just for the fact that it helps the community as far as fighting crime, but it’s also a great outreach too”.
I think a form of goulash for dinner tonight.
Joy
daily living
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