November 16, 2025 a thought for today, God help the sheep when the wolf is judge. Danish Proverb

My life’s photos for yesterday

The first upload was “something with lots of color”. This wall art is one that has the most color of any of have seen recently. Traffic was stop and go due to some road maintenance so I was able to get this shot with a problem.

The next one is “shadow or silhouette”. There didn’t seem to be enough bright sun to create any nice shadows so I pulled this one from my archives. 

Next is “locks” I decided to use the locks on my garage door since there are two lock(s) in the viewfinder.

The last upload for yesterday was “framed, wood or nature”. This is also from
my archives since the leave are all gone from the trees so I like this scene with the leaves best. 

Life today. It was good to see familiar faces in the church this morning. We are a small congregation. Some aren’t able to make it every week but most try to. It was good to see the ones who were not there last week but there this week, it was good to see them all. I need these re-visits each week. The sermon was one for some thought, which is good for deeper clarity and understanding.

I changed direction on the way home to stop a Wendy’s instead of McDonalds today. Change is nice now and then. 

The sun is a pleasure today. The air still has just a touch of a chill but the sun is warming. A perfect autumn day. A day for remembering summer and a day for anticipating winter. 

As typical for Sunday for me is a day to refresh and renew. A day to dream and move about in a leisurely way. There is very little on the agenda. I will do catch up tomorrow. 

The word today is misery.  Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. Martha Washington.  What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like. Saint Augustine. He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it. Voltaire.  If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin. Charles Darwin.  For in all adversity of fortune the worst sort of misery is to have been happy. Boethius.  Human misery must somewhere have a stop; there is no wind that always blows a storm. Euripides.  The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. Martha Washington. The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune. Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God. John Calvin.  If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Henry David Thoreau.  Human misery is too great for men to do without faith. Heinrich Heine.  

Article: The title was a believe it or not for me. So I had to take a look and share. The title is “Humans may have transformed the Sahara from lush paradise to barren desert”. The article opened by saying that the Sahara use to be green with vast lakes. That’s the part that was “a believe it or not” for me. Wild animals that we see in the zoo lived there then and humans fished for food in the lakes. This early part is talking about 11,000 and 4,000 years ago.  It went on to say that during that period there was more rain in the “northern two-thirds of Africa than it does today”. The signs of nature there at that time were more like we see today in rainforests. Hunters and fisherman “flourished”. Today it is the “largest hot desert in the world”. In its latitude location there are “high-pressure ridges that “inhibit” the flow of moisture. Now it has become a dessert. In some places in Africa the wet to dry activities “occurred slowly” while in other area it happened suddenly. One theory is that those conditions allowed for light reflected from the ground that created the “high pressure ridges”. One other thought or “hypothesis” for the further  devastation seems to be that the turn to dessert was due in large part to human activities over a period of time. It appears that deforesting was one major cause. This action caused “reducing evapo-transpiration” that in turn led a “weakened monsoon rainfall”. Clearing the land of trees and brush “triggered” changes in land and atmosphere. Another part of the article pointed out that predatory animals have an “impact on landscape processes”.  Preys make some animals more of a target causing life styles to change. The protection normally found on the land is changed. So the article is also saying that “if you strip the vegetation, you alter the land-atmosphere dynamics, and rainfall is likely to diminish”. It further state that “we must balance economic development against environmental stewardship”. There are no “second chances”. 

I think I will have goulash again tonight for dinner. 

My life’s photos for today

The first upload today is “calm colors”. This is one side of a quilt that my daughter made for me many years ago. 

Next is “favorite view”. I lots of “favorite” views or at least views I like in my house and neighborhood but for today and at this moment is was Bobbi with a rolled up paper ball.

The last upload for today is “mushroom”. I don’t often see mushroom or toadstools in my yard. When I do they are tiny ones. At first I thought this one was a piece of paper that had blown into the yard. To my surprise it was this beauty. 

Joy                               

                                             bonus taken on one of my walks in a back alley