September 21, 2025 a thought for today, Better suffer for truth than prosper by falsehood. Danish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “lighthouse or piers”. Well, I am a city girl and I am not sure there are any true light houses in my town. I am using this as a substitute, my solar light wind chime. 

The next upload waw “a bottle”. I feel this water bottle is on the unique side in its design and color. It’s one of the waters that we have at food pantry. 

The third upload is “abstract (not AI)”. This one of my images of holly hocks taken several years ago. Then I used a filter to create the curves and folds. 

Yesterday was another day of the month I had a fourth upload for the
day. This on was “apples”. I had just picked some up from the store. 

Life today. Yesterday was a busy time here. Lowell was here working on the driveway. Tami and Andy came by to help me with Sweet Pea. She has been showing much more signs of pain in the last two days but I haven’t been able to successfully get her to take her pain meds. So they came to help me with that. They were able to get some medicine down here with a lot of struggle on her part. Then toward evening Natalie came to help with giving her a second dose. This morning I was finally successful giving her today’s first dose.

The first upload for today is “country road”. Again, I am a city girl so I don’t see to many country roads. This is about as close as I can get. This is one of the paths in the local park near my house. 

Today church once again was very light in attendance but the message was superb. I didn’t think Mike could get any better with his message and deportment in presenting it, but he did. He also added something to our “prayers of the people” very important to me as a life long member of this community and neighborhood. He thanked God as he called the Hilltop a beacon (of hope). Normally and often it is described as  “a place full of (disgrace and) problems”. His message gave me not only pause for thought but the urge to do some research when I got home. The message title was “this is a test” in other words our life and its happenings are a test as with Adam and Eve, Job and other biblical humans as well as the temptations of Jesus Himself. 

I made my usual stops on the way home, McDonalds and the park for photos. The rest of the day will be the usual kind for me on a Sunday....rest, restore and refresh. 

The next upload for today is “dirty”. This is a spot when some things have been placed for a hazardous waist pick up. It has taken a while to arrange for a pick up. 

The word today is gold.  Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine. Rumi.  Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. Democritus.  For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver. Martin Luther.  Love is the only gold. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold. Euripides. A mask of gold hides all deformities. Thomas Dekker.  Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. Jonathan Swift. 

The last upload for today is “a bag of groceries”. There’s not much more to say about this particular image, it is self explained. 

Article: I don’t think I would like to eat grasshoppers but it never hurts to learn about things outside our own experiences. I thought I would take a look at this article and share it. The article starts by saying that eating grasshopper was a tradition for thousands of years. It went further by saying that “Billions of people regularly eat insects”. As a matter of fact something called chapulines, toasted grasshoppers, are a “seasonal treat” in Mexico in late May through September.  One of the points in history is that women have learned from their mothers how to capture and prepare grasshoppers. They use nets or “mesh bags” to capture them. They are found in alfalfa and maize fields. The best time to search for them is early morning when it is cool. One of the ladies in the article have been using this process for 23 years and explained how to prepare and season the grasshoppers. The article explained that grasshoppers are “easily digestible, high in protein and an excellent source of vitamins and minerals”. As European settlers came to Mexico food habits came with them and at the time it didn’t include grasshoppers at the time. The food habits that came with the settlers were not “readily adopted by locals”. Eventually they did adopt some of the other food habits. But when there were floods and famine they fell bak to the edible insects. The article mentioned that during COVID when food shopping was harder the sell and eating of grasshoppers and other insects grew.  The diet is not in high demand but tourists may like to taste them and “experience the past”.  But this does not “support the market”.  Few of the persons who capture and cook the grasshoppers have “achieved financial security”. The article ended by saying “it was 3,000 years ago, chapulines are “what’s for dinner.”

It looks like I will have chicken pot pie for dinner. 

Joy

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