August 14, 2025 a thought for today, Other trees, other woodcutters. Lithuanian Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “something that’s changing” this is one of the window box plants that is in nature’s forever changing path. This on has reached the stage of returning to earth. 

The next upload is “beauty”. Some say it is a weed, I say it is a flower. Weed or

flower it is of nature’s beauty.

The last upload is “my choice” and is one of my series of black and white images. It is the cousin to the above image. 

Life today. It’s that day again.....Thursday and all it holds for me. I think I would miss going to church on Thursday. There is no formal sermon but there is a quiet and personal one as I walk through the darkened sanctuary. The only light is the colored reflections from the stained glass. The silence is relaxing to the point of complete freedom. It’s unique not an everyday, every person event. There is only one other spirit in the same space. 

The computer booted up much faster today. It only took about ten minutes. I have no idea what happened. Maybe the times that it was soooo slow the disk was skipping or running into a block of some sort. Maybe we should run CHKDSK. Though it scanned and booted ok today. I was done in about forty-five minutes. One other problem though, my phone was not connecting with the copier. It told me the copier was not available at the time. Last week it worked perfectly. This problem may have been a problem with wifi which is not unusual. 

The first image challenge and upload today is “collection”. It is a collection of photos of my family.

I dropped off the mail, made the usual stop at McDonalds and wandered for a few photos. The only other collections I have is of plants.

Once at home, back to the computer with some breaks mostly to work with my “gardens”. I now have four “window” planters, two on the new railing. I didn’t want to put out more money for plants for the fourth garden so I found the seeds I had put back for next spring, johnny jump up and geranium with a little Osmocote snack. Another break to Swifter the powder room and another to start the laundry. Then a couple of more breaks for quick pick ups. 

The next upload for today is “in the kitchen”. This of course is only a portion of my kitchen. I liked the touch of blue. 

The word today is fault  The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.  When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. Epictetus.  Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. Alexander Pope.  To find fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. Plutarch.  O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault! Dante Alighieri. It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. Saint Teresa of Avila.  Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes. Benjamin Franklin.  Never find fault with the absent. Alexander Pope.  Faultless to a fault. Robert Browning.  Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  

The last upload for today is yet another of “my choice” and another of my “black and white” series. I liked the lines, patterns, shape, textures as well as the shades of gray.

Article: Here is some more about AI. It is a major source of conversation these days. So we can gather as much as we need to make our own decisions and thoughts about it. This title sparked a new thought on the subject for me: “AI is making reading books feel obsolete – and students have a lot to lose”. The author started with mentioning that as AI was becoming into vogue people were already reading a lot less “than they did in the not-so-distant past”. She has a feeling that “AI is accelerating an ongoing shift in the value people place on reading”. The fact that AI allows for a “generated summary” of a plot and key themes and so “undermines people’s motivation to read on their own”. The article went on to mention that CliffsNotes allows for summarizing subject too, then the internet “opened up an array of additional reading shortcuts”. AI can “handle” the reading part of an assignment and “comparing” it with other stories. It can even “generate” questions. The article suggests that it doesn’t allow for you to judge what the relevance is and making connections of ideas. The article goes on to suggest that there are “justifications” to continue to read. Some of those “justifications” are reading for pleasure, reading to reduce stress, reading to learn and grow natural wisdom. It goes on to mention there are “correlations between reading and brain growth in children, happiness, longevity and slowing cognitive decline”. I learned that there has been a study “employing EEG measurements” that “found different brain connectivity patterns when participants enlisted AI to help them write an essay than when writing it on their own”. As the article ended it shared “what makes reading enjoyable – encountering a moving piece of dialogue, relishing a turn of phrase, connecting with a character”.

Chicken pot pie or Welsh rarebit for dinner. 

Joy

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