My Life, My World

December 4, 2025 a thought for today, What you learn to your cost you remember long. Danish Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This upload challenge is “bracelet.” I don’t wear jewelry as rule. This was given to me by my daughter a several years ago. It is a treasured keep sake.

Next is “love.” Right now she is the love of my life. She is my shadow, as much
as a kitten can be. All of the animals in my life have been loved beyond words.

The last one is “dog.” She also was a love of life. She has moved on as we all do, leaving me with memories of time she guided my life through sad and happy. She is a beautiful and tender memory.

Life today. Yesterday was an adventure. I visited an art gallery in Springfield Ohio. I haven’t been in Springfield in many years. A friend won Best of Show on a paining. Two of my father’s brothers lived in Springfield as their families grew up. So we visited now and then when I was a child. As I went through the town I felt I had seen this and that before in my life. Along with the show at the gallery, I experienced a touch of déjà vu now and then as well as opening many memories. It was an interesting experience. Coming out of the museum I saw what looked like a brick wall going on for hundreds of feet. As it turned out it was not brick, it was earth it was the side of a cliff. I really used my camera extensively yesterday in the museum and in the landscape.

The calendar doesn’t say it is winter yet but the sky and the air show differently. According to them we are in deep winter. It is 21 degrees right now and tomorrow is supposed to be even more frigid. What snow wasn’t moved yesterday is still there and apparently will be for several more days.

I got to the church around eight o’clock and got the printing done with only one paper jam. It was food delivery day for the pantry also so I got a short visit with a couple of my church family.

I decided to take a break from the computer to work on the calender binding. I think I have all of them bound. I still have the hole to put in all of them. I want to get them done as soon as I can because I have this tiny niggling that I may have miscounted and will need to print one or two more.

I also took time to make some labels for Christmas gifts. I thought I had ordered some but they never arrived so I made some with blank computer labels and Christmas clip art. I also took another break to get the laundry started. I had hoped to bake some cookies today but I think I will put that off for another day and get back to the calendars. I already have the photos cataloged, filed and ready for uploads.

Lowell and I talked about the room where I sleep it doesn’t have a register so he decided to buy me a small electric heater. So far it is working nicely.

The word today is occupy. Men of lofty genius sometimes accomplish the most when they work least, for their minds are occupied with their ideas and the perfection of their conceptions, to which they afterwards give form. Leonardo da Vinci. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it. James A. Garfield. Be ever engaged, so that whenever the devil calls he may find you occupied. St. Jerome. Every man is dishonest who lives upon the labor of others, no matter if he occupies a throne. Robert Green Ingersoll. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. Blaise Pascal. The most important thought that ever occupied my mind is that of my individual responsibility to God. Daniel Webster. No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. Walter Savage Landor. Occupy yourself in beholding and bewailing your own imperfections rather than contemplating the imperfections of others. Saint Ignatius. The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror, which always takes the colour of the object it reflects and is completely occupied by the images of as many objects as are in front of it. Leonardo da Vinci. The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power. Maimonides. The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier. Jonathan Swift. Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice. Thomas Aquinas. Often when He comes, He finds the soul occupied. Other guests are there, and He has to turn away. He cannot gain entry, for we love and desire other things; therefore, His gifts, which He is offering to everyone unceasingly, must remain outside. Johannes Tauler.

Article summary: This sounds like an interesting subject to consider and ponder. The title is Why we remember the source of an opinion better than the source of a fact – new research. Daniel Mirny. Assistant Professor of Marketing, IESE Business School (Universidad de Navarra). At theconversation.com. It started by mentioning how people spend time rechecking facts of politicians and other sources of contacts. Most times it feels necessary before making personal decisions. Knowing whether something you have heard or witnessed is the truth or some kind of “falsehood.” Then my attention was aroused as I read and realized that to know the truth in the event we should determine if it is indeed fact or opinion. It’s easy to check most things for a fact. It is either true and/or not? Then comes the notion that it may be opinion instead of solid fact. People think differently than each other. The thinking weighs in considering fact and the appearance of that “fact.” In a study mentioned by this author it shows that in the case of comparing one or another individual a “human mind does not treat facts and opinions equally.” In other words one person’s thinking develops a different version than the other person. As the article went on I had to think about a particular statement more than once to assimilate the meaning. The summary of that statement is something like this, the opinion from a speaker seems more informational about him and what he is saying than facts do. In ending the article it was related that we hear an opinion and determine a “richer mental model of the speaker.”

I am thinking maybe tuna casserole for dinner.

Photos in my life today