November 12, 2025 a thought for today, Falsehood travels and grows. Danish Proverb

My photo challenge uploads for yesterday

The first upload is “white and simple”. It’s pretty self explanatory except maybe for what the white door might be. It is the top of a desk top humidifier. All shot against a white back ground making it a white and white. 

The next upload is “my choice” and is one in my series of “still life”. Three
eggs on a dish towel, a sign of kitchen life.  

The last upload is “brown”. It ended up that I had several shots of brown images. I chose this one for the tone and the textures. 

Life today. What a beautiful morning. It is one of those easy kinds. I haven’t been out of house since church on Sunday.  I decided to go to McDonalds for a fish sandwich and to check out a place for one particular photo that I have in mind for today. As it turned out I got two of the ones I need and the third one when I got home and discovered that my johnny jump up flowers hadn’t succumbed in the snow yesterday so I have the “purple” I need today. 

I had a little time yesterday to open the template for the church’s December newsletter and got a bit of a start on the calendar. Beyond that I was busy with two uploads to Instagram for the church. To get that project done I had to do some photo work to get them ready. 

Yesterday we had our first cold snap for the coming season. About a half inch of snow accompanied the drop in temps to near freezing. I am glad Lowell got me a space heater. I have used it the past two nights. I am in an attached bed room that is small and unheated. It doesn’t take too long to warm it up. Bobbi has become a part time sleeping companion so she appreciates the warmth too. 

I kept things on the to do list for today at a minimum. I do have one commitment I will get done before starting the goulash. I am a few days late again tending to the hydroponic plants so that will get done shortly. 

As I glance out the window I see the sun is bright but having been out and about I know the air has a chill. The next few days the temps are predicted to raise. Nonetheless we are getting a taste and preview of the coming winter. 

The word today is master.  Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools. Blaise Pascal.  Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Nature is the master of talents; genius is the master of nature. Josiah Gilbert Holland.  Alas! You complain that your soul is out of tune. Then ask the Master to tune the heart-strings. Charles Spurgeon.  Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything. Abraham Lincoln.  The man who gives me employment, which I must have or suffer, that man is my master, let me call him what I will. Henry George.  Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world. Epictetus.  Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols. John Calvin.  Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master. Demosthenes.  I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. Brigham Young.  A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton.  The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master. Sophie Swetchine.  May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense. Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  If thou art a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. Thomas Fuller.  We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution. Abraham Lincoln.  What worries you, masters you. John Locke.  If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. Vincent Van Gogh.  It is with our Passions, as it is with Fire and Water, they are 'Good Servants,' but 'Bad Masters.' Aesop.  

Article: As stewards of the earth we should probably be mindful of what people and scientists are saying that concerns our home planet and ultimately each and every human being as well as all other animals who walks this earth. So I decided to read and share this article. The title to the article is “What are climate tipping points? They sound scary, especially for ice sheets and oceans, but there’s still room for optimism?” It opens by saying the risk is a “catastrophic” tipping point”. By saying this they are mentioning that ice sheets and rain forests are changing and that change can be irreversible. The hotter temperatures are leading to melting ice or drier forests. Those changes may not sound overly worrisome but these simple changes can lead to worse and more vulnerable changes. It affects food changes and other “systems” getting out of balance.  There are “virtual laboratories” where scientists use experiments that “generate” climate models studying how air, oceans, and ice interact. They have reached a point of studying “tipping points” in climate activity. I am seeing this as a tool that could be used in reducing the risk of crossing these “catastrophic” tipping points by further learning to and accomplishing the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. There are many of these tipping points leaning toward destructions in rain forests like drought and more wildfires leading to killing trees and releasing more carbon into the air. There are alarming tipping points in the sea leading to tropical reefs being wiped out which then affects all species of sea life and the ecosystem on the whole. The article in coming to a close relates how the risks shown by these tipping points are “too risky to ignore”. It does soften the concern by saying that “reducing greenhouse gas emissions slows the alarming warnings and tipping point risks”. 

Goulash sounds good for dinner today. 

My photo challenge uploads for today

The first upload for today is another of the “my choice” and another of my series of “still life”. It is a few stems of flowers from the bouquet Matthew sent us. 

Next for today is “energy”. I find it difficult to show in an image human energy. So I chose to show man made energy instead. 

The last challenge upload is “purple”. While I was out and about I was on the look out for something interesting in the color purple with no success. When I got home I realized a few of my johnny jump up flowers had made it thorough the first winter snow fall. 

Joy

this bonus image shows some depth and finesse in architecture