September 23, 2025 a thought for today, Wisdom is the least burdensome traveling pack. Danish Proverb

In my need and use of photography mood and emotion are a part of it. So some days my images will not be as “good” as others. Please be patient with me today and know that my pain in a loss is coming out and I am healing, it may very well show in the photos in particular and in some written passages.

My photos from yesterday are from my archives. This one is a photo I took of one of my sister’s painting. It is for the challenge assignment of “a painting”.

The next upload called for “leaves”. I was thinking single leaf and found this one I had saved from a while back. 

The next upload is “my choice”. It is one of my series of “faceless portraits” and another from the archives. 

Life today: I lost my very best friend yesterday. It was time for Sweet Pea to take the adventure over the rainbow. It was hard to let go. But she needed and deserved peace. I am lost without her and oh so lonely. 

It looks like we are going to have another slow week at food pantry. We never know how to estimate how many families we think we will have on any given day. It wasn’t a bad day we had a fair number just not as we have most days. We do have some very packed days too. This seems to be just a sort of mild slump.

My first upload for today is “autumn”. It is a little early here to have many trees with changing leaves. This one was just beginning to show color today and had dropped a few leaves.

I got the newsletter done down to one page. The bulletin has been proofed and updated. I’ll finish the envelopes, labels and the last page in he morning before I get ready for another day of pantry.  Before dinner I will finish this letter and the process the photos that I took on my way home. 

We had a pretty good rain fall yesterday afternoon so things cooled down a good it but they seem to be getting a little warmer too. Signs of a season beginning to change. 

The next is another of the “my choice”, another of my series of “faceless portrait’ and another from my archives. 

 The word today is gone.  Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Horace Mann.  The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. George Eliot.  It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home. Rumi.  Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless. Joan of Arc.  I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind. Emily Bronte.  God is at home, it's we who have gone out for a walk. Meister Eckhart.  What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit. Chief Seattle.  To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience. Saint Teresa of Avila.  I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Charles Lamb.  Not lost, but gone before. Matthew Henry.  Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone? Herman Melville.  

The last upload is “a doormat”. Well, I shot this one today. I needed “a doormat” pretty quick and this was the only one that was handy. It’s kind of messy and dirty and well used. 

Article: I was better in English and Literature than anything like Physics and most other sciences so this article looked like there are things I might learn or re-learn that I may have missed before. This is an article that I have read that is an answer to a child’s question. It was written by a professor of Physics.  In the beginning of the article it is mentioned that earth moves in “two major ways”.  As it “spins like a top” it moves from the North Pole to the South Pole in 24 hours.  As it moves in that direction it is also moving around the sun. That trip takes a year.  It moves at 67,000 miles per hour. So this brings up the question of why don’t we feel these motions. In most kinds of things we experience involving any kind of motion there are feelings of start and stop and fast and slow. In earth’s motion it is so smooth that there are no noticeable starts and stops or noticeable changes in speed. Every thing on earth is moving at the same speed, like in a hug of sorts. We don’t notice any movement since nothing else around us is moving there are no “landmarks” that we would be passing to indicate that just we ourselves are moving. Now the question comes up how do we know the earth is moving. The changes in the sky, day time and a night time. Another proof of the slow movement we are on is the change in seasons. The article ended by saying “everything is in motion, from planets and stars to galaxies themselves.”

I think I am having creamed chicken on biscuit for dinner. 

Joy

             I use to play this instrument (took lessons at OSU)