July 31, 2025 a thought for today, Love, poverty, and care cannot be hidden. Mexican Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “folded”. This were some of the tote bags used in our food pantry endeavors. They are colorful and lend a happy feel. 

The next upload was “liquid”. This is another image from our pantry. We offer the people we serve refreshments when they come to visit us. 

The last upload for yesterday was “my choice” and is another of my “partial” series. Yet another image on pantry day. It is an industrial size fan to keep ourselves and our guests as comfortable as possible on these very warm days. 

Life today. I got started on this letter before I left for church to do the printing. Once I got there it took one hour and fifteen minutes for the computer to boot up. First it started with an update. The rest was behind the scenes, who knows. I finally got started with the actual printing, that took about twenty minutes, twenty more to put the bulletins out. 

I stopped on the way home to drop off the envelopes and a sausage sandwich and the usual iced tea. Sue had gone to see the twins before I got home. 

The first upload for today is “shadows”. On a sunny day it seems everything in the path of the sun’s light makes a shadow. 

Finally back home and back to the computer and the laundry. 

The next couple of weeks should be comparatively slow. Maybe I will have time to work on the Christmas calendar. 

The next upload for today is “path”. Actually this one is not from the park near my home where I shoot and share many of my images. This one is in a metro park a few miles from my home.

The word today is exercise.  Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far. Thomas Jefferson.  True prayer is neither a mere mental exercise nor a vocal performance. It is far deeper than that - it is spiritual transaction with the Creator of Heaven and Earth. Charles Spurgeon.  This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it. Abraham Lincoln.  Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison.  Remember that bodily exercise, when it is well ordered, as I have said, is also prayer by means of which you can please God our Lord. Saint Ignatius.  Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. John Adams.  Let each man exercise the art he knows. Aristophanes.  We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it. Epicurus.  Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction. John Owen.  To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Robert Louis Stevenson.  As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. James Madison.  The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men. John Henry Newman.  Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance. Horace.  The exercise of natural rights has no limits but such as will ensure their enjoyment to other members of society. Marquis de Lafayette.  We shall not be happy unless we live like good animals, unless we enjoy the exercise of the ordinary functions of life: eating, sleeping, loving, walking, running, swimming, riding, sailing. William Morris.  During my solitude, conflicting thoughts increased; but much exercise of soul had the effect of causing the scriptures to gain complete ascendancy over me. John Nelson Darby. 

The last last challenge upload for today is “my choice” and one from my series “partial”. I believe this is one of the rented mobile bikes that was parked at the Kroger parking lot. 

Article: This was interesting to see that there is a product that in its disposal is as detrimental to our air, water, food and planet besides what has been repeated and repeated....plastic bags and bottles. There are, as per this article, are others also probably many others that present a determent. The title is “One of the biggest microplastic pollution sources isn’t plastic straws or grocery bags – it’s your tires”. When tires get worn some folks throw them in a waterway. From here “the tiny microplastic particles from the tires’ synthetic rubber carry several chemicals that can transfer into fish, crabs and perhaps even the people who eat them”. Rain also washes particles dropped from the tires to ditches and other waterways leading to streams, rivers and oceans.  Then these particles get to “fish, crabs, oysters and other aquatic life that humans may use as food. In 2020 there was a study that found that salmon who had died and were examined had “6PPD-Q, a chemical stemming from 6PPD, which is added to tires to help keep them from degrading”. These chemicals can affect the liver and kidneys in human beings. There are studies being made to find “sustainable ways of removing tire wear particles from waterways with accessible and low-cost natural materials from agricultural wastes”. Some of these materials are pine wood chips and charcoal made from rice husks, these can remove up to 90 percent of the “tire wear particles from water runoff”. The article ended by saying that they “believe biofilters made from plant waste could be an effective and relatively inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution.”

Salmon burgers for dinner. 

Joy

all of my composites for the month of July