April 30, 2025 a thought for today, the truth in humility to all people. Only then can you be a true man. Native American Lakota Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “glimmer micro moment”. It’s just some tiny violets trying to show off among the weeds and sticks. 

The next upload was “graffiti”. There seems to be a lot of this in this day and
age, not so much from my era. Some is gorgeous and some not but most that I have seen are colorful present some sort of message. Some seems more “art” than others.

This challenge for this upload was “lighthouse”. I am not around large bodies of water that require lighthouses for their messages of safe passage. However, in my town there is a huge “sky scrapper” whose lights bring different message as well as safety to our attentions. 

Live today. Here is another pantry day. Yesterday was on the slow side. It ended that we served a goodly number of families but we had some fairly long spaces between visitors. Those times allow for bonding between the volunteers which also makes for a good-feeling day. 

This is one of the days I have little on my agenda. At my age we can use as many of those as we can get. They help refill the “energy cells”. 

The weather temps are on the low side again today. I would like them to be about 10 to 15 degrees warmer. I know, I know, in a month or so I will be complaining about the higher temps. I should concentrate more on what each of the seasons bring that add to the pleasant parts that are there.

The first upload for today is “my choice”. I have decided to use this image of these steps. I like their aged look and the thoughts of the lives that may have passed over these steps.  

I took a break from this letter to go to food pantry.....I’m back now. We had another good day. There were a few more families today but the timing was about like yesterday. We had some breaks in between visitors. 

I only got one of my photos on my way home the others will come from the archives. 

The next upload is “glimmer micro moment”. This is a tulip that has given up its last few petals. 

The word is world.  This world is but a canvas to our imagination. Henry David Thoreau.  The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine.  There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny. Frederick William Robertson.  Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching. Thomas Jefferson.  Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World. Christopher Columbus.  We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. Buddha.  When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth.  When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. Otto von Bismarck.  Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises. Pedro Calderon de la Barca.  Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. John Milton. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. Charles Dickens.  The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. Epictetus.  The world remains ever the same. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

The last upload it “kiss”. This is my sister with one of my great grandsons. It’s hard to resist giving a bundle of joy like at a kiss on the head. 

Article: A little bit about nature and how it actually affects us. The title is “Bees, fish and plants show how climate change’s accelerating pace is disrupting nature in 2 key ways”. It is written by a professor of Biology, Medical Sciences and Environmental Sciences. The article started out talking about how climate change isn’t just about temperature.  It is as much about how fast the changes are happening and about how it is affection the whole of nature. It talked about how climate changed thousands to million of years ago. The change was much slower over time. Today there are scientific signs that is has changed dramatically faster in the past decade. It likened the speed as that of a stepping on the gas in a car making it go faster. On that line it mentioned that the burning of the fossil fuels at that kind of rate also played a part in our climate. In the 21st century the “global temperatures rising more than three times faster than in the previous century”. It is affecting habitat of plants and animals (of which we are). It is throwing off the timing of pollination. It mentions that some can recover from short-term climate changes such as a heat wave. But longer may affect survival. These changes can cause migrations to better places. One example was how fish populations have “shifted toward the poles as ocean temperatures have risen”. Bees have shifting their range due to pollination changes. One thing that was sited in the article is that “1 in 3 bites of food you eat depend on a pollinators”. Other things happen in the migration process, it can cause “a mismatch of pollination timing. This is known as phenological mismatch”. An example of the mismatch would be when the “bees or other pollinators emerge at their “normal” time, flowers may already be blooming, reducing their chance for pollination”. As the article goes on it mentions that “without pollinators, ecosystems are less resilient”.  The article ends with this one bit of advice in managing climate change take steps to reduce over using pesticides since they also contribute to the death of pollinators, that’s a small step.

I think creamed chicken on biscuits for dinner. 

Joy

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