November 2, 2025 a thought for today, No and yes cause long disputes. Danish Proverb

Photo a day in my life for yesterday and from archives

The first photo challenge upload for yesterday was “something blue I saw today”. I see this “blue” everyday as it rests on the dining room table. 

The next challenge for yesterday was “something metallic”. I was going to use a car or truck but decided to be a bit more subtle by  using the metal posts in the scene. 

The last upload for yesterday was “reflection”. As I passed some of the stores in the strip mall I caught the reflections in some of the windows as I passed by. 

Life today. There were a few more folks at church today than most recent Sundays. It was nice to see everyone. I finally got the right size in a lace face mask. So I wore it to church this morning. Now I am thinking that maybe I should get pair of lace fingerless gloves to go with it (just joking).  

Thursday morning when I ordered a refill on one of my prescriptions the voice on the machine said it would be ready after 3:00 that afternoon. When I stopped to pick it up today the cashier said it wouldn’t be ready until Tuesday.  

Rebecca just called they are going to lunch and ask us to join them. 

I took my photos for today here at home and at church and I don’t have much else on the agenda since it is the day to refresh. I will have to catalog the photos and upload but that should be all to do. 

The word today is lie.  We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter. Denis Diderot.  Half a truth is often a great lie. Benjamin Franklin.  Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond. Hypatia.  People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. Otto von Bismarck.  By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Immanuel Kant.  Never chase a lie. Let it alone, and it will run itself to death. Lyman Beecher.  If evil be spoken of you and it be true, correct yourself, if it be a lie, laugh at it. Epictetus.  The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. Plutarch.  A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour. Jonathan Swift.  There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie. Aeschylus. A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. Desiderius Erasmus.  A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings. Thomas Fuller.  A lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies. Alfred Lord Tennyson.  The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. Thomas Aquinas.  To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. William Wordsworth.  And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade. Alexander Pope. The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. Plautus.  You shall not steal, nor deal falsely, nor lie to one another. Moses.  

Article: I find it interesting to learn all we can and how animals lives affect ours so articles like this is one of them. We may learn how to use them coupled with human reasoning. The title is “Social distancing works – just ask lobsters, ants and vampire bats”.  The beginning of the article mentioned some of the animal who have the capability to know when to stay apart from others due to diseases. Some of the animals listed are “monkeys, lobsters, insects and birds”. They can “detect and avoid” sicknesses and survive. The article  goes  on to mention that the animals have “evolved a variety of behaviors that limit infection”. One of the main ways they have found while they live in group-living is by social distancing. According to scientists humans may be able to learn with studies of how this occurs. The article began by mentioning how ants that naturally live in “tight quarters” of thousands of lose relatives are “the most extreme practitioners of social distancing”. It likened the living conditions much like humans in day care centers, college dormitories and nursing home. Further on it said that when disease is felt in the ant community they scene or recognize a contagious disease in the group and they “rapidly change their behavior in ways that slow disease transmission”. The sick ants “isolate” themselves and the healthy ants “reduce” any interaction. They even “close rank” around the “most vulnerable”.  Other animals find other ways of social distancing. I found from the article that human “behavior” when there is disease in their nature of “altruism” helps in evolution. Some of this came through in the COVID pandemic. Humans can practice the social distancing while caring for the sick people in the community as a whole. While animals “rely on subtle cues to detect illness” humans can communicate health threats globally in an instant” and can “maintain social connections without direct physical contact”. The article ended by mentioning that “social distancing can be profoundly disruptive to our society, but it can also stop a disease outbreak in its tracks. Just ask ants.”

It will be snacks for dinner since we went to lunch with Lowell and Rebecca. 

Photo a day in my life for today 

The first upload today is “something red in my home”. This is a cover for my filing cabinet. It has also become a resting spot for Bobbi in her explorations .

Next I made the shot before service began when I stepped down to the hall to the “crib room” in the church. 

Last is “light”. I took this one also while I was at church before the service
began. For some reason my eyes seem to be strongly  attracted to this particular light when ever I sit or pass through in the sanctuary. 

Joy

the bonus art image was created (before AI) from my photo image taken of venation blinds opened to the neighbor hood outside the window