November 10, 2025 a thought for today, Falsehood never tires of going round about. Danish Proverb

My life in photo uploads for yesterday

The first challenge yesterday was “something metallic”. I was looking for and found another photo I needed to day when I spotted this one. It seemed perfect or this particular assignment.

The second upload was “memories”. Naturally this one is from my archives. This was one of the many family gatherings that I miss so much now. But the memories are a comfort.

The third upload was “bridge”. This is the image I was looking for when I found the one at this top of this page. 

Life today. I seem to be very good at finding something attached to something I am working on that urges me to do some research even though it is to confirm something in my thinking or to add to my knowledge base for future reference. What I am trying to say is it causes me to take a short detour that in turn uses time. By the end of the day I have run out of time on finishing the days list of to dos. 

I have the bulletin done and sent to the appropriate folks for proofing. I got back some small changes and additions, which meant time to go back to work on the “finished” bulletin. That is why I like to get it done early, the earlier the better. 

The photo challenges I had today called for some time for setups or searches for the perfect fit. While I was out searching for a couple of the shots I managed to bring the trash can up from the curb and to remove some snow from part of the back porch and my car. 

So the time for the searches and for the snow removal and the photos and a couple of incoming phone calls has brought me to about an hour before dinner time but before that uploads for this letter and the photos that have been “keyworded”, filed and added to the portfolio and archives.

The word today is lower.  As long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Pythagoras.  A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. Marcus Aurelius.  What is it that distinguishes you and me from the lower animals - from the beasts? More, I say, than anything else, human sympathy - human sympathy. Robert Green Ingersoll.  The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Speak low, if you speak love. William Shakespeare.  I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. William John Wills. There's a victory, and defeat; the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself. Plato.  If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. Publilius Syrus.  Wit is the lowest form of humor. Alexander Pope.  Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Freedom has invented every useful machine, from the lowest to the highest, from the simplest to the most complex. Robert Green Ingersoll.  

Article: Here is yet another view of AI. This one about learning a language for itself instead of just a translation for “temporary communication”.   The title to the article is “What AI earbuds can’t replace: The value of learning another language”. The article starts by talking about how as a tourist to a country that speaks a different language than our own we can use a translator in our hand. I think we may have used it just shy of AI coming into being on our cell phones with the capability to talk into the phone, punch a button that used what was said and translates it to the other language. I’m sure AI has expanded that feature. The article went on saying that “despite a sharp decline in formal education settings” we have this application available to us. As the article went on it mentioned that learning a foreign language creates the “ability to follow and contribute to a live group conversation”. Since World War II it has been “recognized” that translations in text form do “little to support real interaction”. Further in the article it is mentioned that though the “digital” means of communicating messages like where is such and such hotel and the like there is still a question about there being a “lasting and transformative value of learning and speaking languages”. In furthering the case of truly learning the language and possibly it’s nuances there is the content of the meaning. Such things as “humor, idioms, levels of formality, tone, timing and body language shape” should be also be  considered because of they are important in conversations. The author of the article says that AI may “fall short” with the “instant” interpretations and translations. It is powerful in a short term situation but in this quick translation there may be “distortion of meaning, loss of interactive nuance and diminished interpersonal trust”. As the article is coming to a close it suggests that truly learning the language brings to the forefront cultural and “cognitive empathy”.

I have a package of fried ride that I think I will have for dinner .

My life in photo uploads for today

My first image upload for today is “orange in nature”. I knew there were some fallen leaves that still held some of there orange color. I found this one in the newly fallen snow.

Next is another of the “my choice”. This one is one from my newest series of “still life”.

The third upload is “what I am wearing”. This is pretty much my “hand around the house” attire for most days. 

The last image upload challenge today is titled “diagonal”. I wandered around the house looking for something to fit this assignment. Then I landed on this one....perfect. 

Joy 

the bonus piece was created (before AI) with my image of my garden of holly hock flowers