October 5, 2025 a thought for today, An old man's sayings are seldom untrue. Danish Proverb
The photo uploads for yesterday.
My first upload for yesterday was “made you smile today”, and many more I hope. Bobbi finding interest in the leg of my vintage gate leg table.
bedtime images.
Life today. Lowell put the coating on the driveway this morning, what a relief that it is finally done. I had the car parked in the street over night which makes me nervous, now I’m back in the driveway.
It’s been a great Sunday, after I got past the misery of leaving my new fur baby for the first time. She seemed to do fine and I am ok now that I am home. I had planned to put her in my room with a gate to take up the space the door doesn’t fit. As soon as I sat down she jumped over the gate. So since I don’t have a pet cage, I have a cat carrier but didn’t want to leave her in there for three hours. She was up in the house free as a bird. So one more next step in the growth of a kitten.
We had some new people actually return back today, that is always encouraging. This was Worldwide Communion Sunday. After church we had our first choir meeting at its new schedule. I hadn’t been going because I don’t drive at night, when the practices were scheduled. Today was the first day of the new time, right after church service. When I mentioned Bobbi and our growing together, I found out tht five of us have cats, the others seem to have more than one.
As is my usual plans for Sunday afternoon I don’t have anything on the agenda. So after I get the photos uploaded I will be relaxing and refreshing. Actually, working with the photos is not work to me it is a pleasure and a release. I will also be enjoying hugs and “talks” with Miss Bobbi, as you know is our new addition. She will meet her new doctor on Tuesday. The place where I adopted her use that issue as part of the adoption “contract”, to see their “family” doctor within seven days. Even though she has already had all shots, neutered and nails clipped. I guess it is a wellness and welcoming appointment.
We are having another gorgeous weather day, a wonderful way to enjoy the season with visions of the coming winter pushed to the background.
The word today is innocent. Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent. Jonathan Swift. The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. How innocent, how happy, how truly delightful, even, would life be if we were to desire nothing but what is to be found upon the face of the earth: in a word, nothing but what is provided ready to our hands! Pliny the Elder. The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow. William Cowper. I shall support the law, for the law gentlemen, is the firm and solid basis of civil society, the guardian of liberty, the protection of the innocent, the terror of the guilty, and the scourge of the wicked. Charles Lawrence. If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life. Honore de Balzac. He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass. Horace.
Article: I picked this article to explore because the title seemed to hold a bit of a mystery. My favorite books are mysteries or historical fiction (with a bit of truth encourage thought). After reading I found it isn’t really a mystery, it is more a revelation of happening not well known and then brought to light. The tile is “A staircase in a small, decorative arts museum tells a harrowing story of terror, abuse and enslavement”. The article’s story opens with telling about a girl from 12 to 22 growing up being the slave of a wealthy physician. Much of her the early part of her life was one of “terror”. The missive went on the say that as a teen ager she was thrown down a set of stairs in North Carolina. Years later she wrote an autobiography including this as part of her story. In 2025 the staircase in this story was located in the Museum of Early Southern Decorative Arts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. One portion of the museum contained woodwork from an earlier period in history, the staircase was part of that woodwork. In 1964 the staircase was moved from its original location in the physicians home and the slave girls memories. They were moved from the house not because of the slave girls connection but “because of their significance to Revolutionary-era craftsmanship”. It was later discovered that is was connected to the girl. The history of the staircase and other abuses were discovered in former slave girls autobiography. After she escaped slavery there as she hid for seven years in a nearby attic. Her book was rediscovered in the 1970s. Its accuracy was doubted by some. After some study by a historian much of it was verified. I learned from the article that by the stairway in the museum there is a photograph of the slave girl. The full story of the staircase is not found in the museum itself. The museum staff “recounted” the story in a course of conversation. They also shared that they believe how the “importance and meaning of artifacts change over time”. The article shares that it is of importance in the “power of regional museums to preserve artifacts whose stories unfold over generations”. The staircase is an “example of fine 18th-century craftsmanship, and that’s a story worth preserving and learning”, by preserving its whole history.
The photo uploads for today
perfection.
The second upload is “my choice” and one of my “touch of color" series. One of my miniature roses a it is beginning the fade back to the earth.
used pink construction paper to create this icon for the reason.
I may try another DoorDash, I didn’t use it this past Friday so I will be dinner tonight.
Joy
bonus art (generated from an original photo image of a red stick candle with holder and ribbon)
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