November 22, 2025 a thought for the day, It is a bad hand that refuses to guard the head. Danish Proverb

Life in photos yesterday

The first challenge upload is “my choice”. It is one of my “minimalist” series. It is taken at my church as are the others for yesterday. One of the shelves in the library. 

Next is “rainbow colors”. This is one of the stained glass windows. I have used a motion blur filer to the  image to put the colors in the spot light. 

The last upload for yesterday was “arches”. Again it is taken at my church as I was going through the unlit sanctuary. 

Life today. This is another of those good days. I started out with the “standard” internet visits that I make with little to no hesitation every day. Then I started this letter. I was also doing some research on a couple of things for my sister. By then it was time to get ready for my Saturday curbside grocery pick up. I got home from there with time to get the groceries in the house and have a McDonalds fish sandwich before it was time to get my hair cut. I had been concerned about getting a place to park. As it turned out I didn’t need to be worried. There was a space right in front of the salon.  I found out there is a new employee there who does nails also pedicures and manicures. I may have to keep that one in mind 

I had left most of the groceries on the counter before I left for the hair salon. I put them up as soon as I got home. One of the photos I needed of some of them before I put them away. Some of the groceries are for the Waldorf salad that I will be making for Thanksgiving. I think I will also make some a double batch of Welsh Rarebit. 

I got one of the photos I need while I was picking up groceries. The other two were right here at home. I also picked up more photos while I was out for the archives for future use. 

The sun is bright today. The air is better than the last few days yet still with just a bit of a chill. So far the temperature hasn’t been as unpleasant as I’m sure it will get in the next month or so. 

It’s time now for onward and upward. Time for getting the photos keyworded, filed, put in the portfolio and uploaded to the challenge sites.

The word today is more.  There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved. Thomas Fuller.  After all is said and done, more is said than done. Aesop.  Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. William Cowper.  Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen. Epictetus.  Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt. Plautus.  It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees. George Eliot.  Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all. John Greenleaf Whittier.  Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes. Voltaire.  Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Samuel Adams.  All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. Aristotle.  Patience and time do more than strength or passion. Jean de La Fontaine.  There is a fellowship more quiet even than solitude, and which, rightly understood, is solitude made perfect. Robert Louis Stevenson.  For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity. William Penn.  While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. Francis of Assisi.  God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners. Soren Kierkegaard.  There lives more faith in honest doubt, believe me, than in half the creeds. Alfred Lord Tennyson.  There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. Thomas Carlyle. Do your duty in all things, like the old Puritan. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. Robert E. Lee.  Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. Francis Bacon.  He who commits injustice is ever made more wretched than he who suffers it. Plato.  

Article: theconversation.com: Beyond beasts of burden: How to reward our animals for their work. Kendra Coulter. Associate Professor in Labour Studies and Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence; Member of the Royal Society of Canada's College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists, Brock University. I am an animal lover. I like to share articles that I come across about them with you. The article mentions how animals do so much for us and are many times a service to our lives. The story opens with mentioning a peacock who is an emotional support animal and was refused to be allowed on a flight. That sparked discussion on the how animals now days can be certified and regulated to serve people with disabilities of all sorts. This idea was expanded to conversation of how animals are used for “work” in many other areas of our lives. The use of animals in many physical areas of work is no longer as important as it use to be due to modernization in production of mechanical ways to get thing done. Animals help in law enforcement as well as in the area of the disability aspect. There are two classes of animals that help people with disabilities. There is the service animal who lives with the person full time.  They alert them of harmful situations as well as help physically in situations as they arise. Then there is the therapy animal who works “part time”. They visit hospitals and any are where they can act as a means of therapy on the same level as a treatment or medications. I like the way the article mentions that the type of animal as in dog, horse, bird or some that many not be thought of as “helpful” can offer their natural abilities to the support human emotions as well as physical aspects of every day life. Animals can learn to “control or suppress their feelings” allowing them to serve in ways to improve the humans well being. The animals would be used appropriately according to their size and natural capabilities. In using the animals for their ability to support our needs we must consider their needs and comforts also. It is wise to keep in mind that not all animals are suited to being able to support human needs. The article mentions that we should keep in mind the “potential” purpose and mutual dependence of the animals considered for specific services and “work”. Another thing the article brought to mind was that the animal cruelty laws should be enforced and addressed in any political areas that concern the welfare of all animals including those we use for our needs and comforts. 

I think chili and hash browns sounds good for dinner.

Life in photos today

The first upload for today is “large object”. I felt that  a firemen’s ladder truck fits the requirements for a “large object”.

The next upload is “food”. This is one of the bags from my grocery pick up today. 

The last upload is “a color I love in my home”. This is one of the “elegant”
chairs I have in the living room. I like that tone of brown and the glisten of the leather.

 

Joy

a bonus photo from my garden with a painterly filter added