November 26, 2025 a thought for today, A royal heart is often hid under a tattered cloak. Danish Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This upload is “busy.” These workmen seem to be just that...busy. It shows in their postures and a little dirt her and there on their clothing. 

Next is “I see this color a lot.” And in this season we do see these colors often especially the orange. 

The last on is “my choice” and one from my series of “mirror image.” We see a lot of these warning cones for some reason recently.

Life today. Food pantry was on the slow side today. In a way that was good, we are in the process of updating our computer stations. Today we were putting that last finishing touches on getting the newest laptop set to our needs. It took a little while but after a while it was running smoothly. 

I am going into the church before pantry today to get the bulletin printed and distributed. It is an adjustment since tomorrow, my normal printing day, is Thanksgiving. I will be making a couple of dishes to add to the meal. I hope to have church timed so that I will be ready to start with pantry setup before we open.

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I took about a four-hour break from this letter to print the bulletin and work at food pantry. Pantry was very slow. It was among some of the slowest we have ever had. I was surprised this being Thanksgiving week with food one of the biggest parts of his holiday. Both of the computers came up great today. 

The weather people are saying we are going to have an extremely cold day. I guess it’s winter making an early appearance. 

I got two photos I need taken at pantry today so now there is just the tagging, filing and uploading. One of them took more work than the others I worked on it before I left. I used one from the archives to create a mirror image. 

 The word today is need. The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tzu.  If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles. Sun Tzu.  Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it. Rumi.  Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it. Benjamin Franklin.  'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats.  I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. Plutarch.  He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. Thomas Fuller.  Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. Saint Augustine.  We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau.  Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Francis Bacon.  Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need. Thomas Aquinas.  Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius.  Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love. Saint Teresa of Avila.  

Article summary. It seems there are endless stories about how animals help humans and in so many varied ways. Here is another story on how one animal relates to the human animal. The title is: Golden retriever and human behaviour may be linked by the same genes – new research. 

Daniel Mills. Professor of Veterinary Behavioural Medicine, University of Lincoln.  At theconversation.com. The article opens by mentioning that since animals have “shared” homes with humans for more than 15,000 years. Note: I researched that number of years in Google for adding to this article. The article further noted that it could be there is no “human society” without animals included.”  The author went into more detail by mentioning a study he and some colleaues did that shows that “humans seem to share a genetic basis for at least some behaviour” with dogs. Over time dogs have learned to live peacefully with humans. Some of the learning has led to communications’ they both, human and dogs, understand including the emotional kind. I found in the article that there has even been studies related to an “autism-like syndrome” in dogs. In this author’s studies of Golden Retrievers they found that ranges of intelligence and health related incidents found in genes related to those in humans. There were several scientific points in the article that I am unfamiliar with. I think the whole idea of the story is to indicate and show, with the scientific points, that the Golden Retriever and humans share many points of life and living. Further in the article it was suggested that there genes in humans were connected in the training of dogs. Dogs don’t feel and show reaction to  “unpleasant experiences” as humans but show their sensitivity in different ways. In ending the article along with the basic I have summarized here and the science formulas mentioned in the original article, dogs are “natural models of mental health issues.”

I still haven’t had the spaghetti that I had planned for the other day, maybe today for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

My first upload was “vegetable.” I was working at our food pantry and this was one of the kinds of produce we had for the people today.

The next upload is another of the “my choice” and another from my series of “mirror image.” I like the arrangement of these leaves in the original image on the left half of the image as well as combined with the first design.  

My last upload on this letter is “polka dots.” This was a design on one of my friends’ sweat shirt. 

Joy

bonus photo I don’t know the purpose of the utility but the shapes, patterns and textures are pleasing to the eye