January 23, 2026 a thought for today, What is wrong today won't be right tomorrow. Dutch Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This challenge upload is “white”. We seem to be having a lot of that right now. This one was taken at the park down the street. 

Next is “a snack”. This is a typical lunch or quick snack. A deli thin sliced chicken sandwich, ten potato chips and a few dark chocolate chips. 

The last on is “far away”. This is one is a few miles from where I live. It has one of the icon structures from Columbus Ohio.

Life today. A major snow event is heading our way. That is one of the kinds of things that makes me want to do research. I remember one “blizzard” when I was driving and had to pull over on West Broad Street . You couldn’t see the hand in front of your face let alone a car distance away. That was  around 1979. I remember another vaguely. When I was around seven years old. When I looked it up today I was reminded in that winter of 1947 there was 28 inches of snow. I wonder how this one will rank. 

I did my curb side grocery order early this morning hoping to pick it up today. When I finished the order and was ready to choose a time to pick it up there were no times left as a choice for today. So I picked the earliest for tomorrow. I hope the snow won’t start until I am back home. 

I missed church last week and was looking forward to going this Sunday. I have a feeling they will either cancel the service or I won’t be able to get out of the driveway. Maybe there will be a miraculous change in direction of the storm. 

I wasn’t sure about the weather due to all the hoopla from the forecasters. I thought I heard some saying the early part of storm and drastic temperature drop was starting Friday so I let Dorothy know that I would bring the newsletter home to finish on my own. That’s what I did. I was able to get it in the mail this morning. 

I got paying the bills out of the way and an important letter written to a very generous friend. With the grocery order out of the way, the bills paid, researches done, the photos out of the way now it’s time to sit back and wait for the storm and it’s lessons. 

The word today is proportion.  There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. Henry David Thoreau. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. James Boswell. Remember this-that there is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse. George Washington. Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster. We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Only nature knows how to justly proportion to the fault the punishment it deserves. Percy Bysshe Shelley. Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. Henry David Thoreau. An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Henri Frederic Amiel.  Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. Samuel Johnson. Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears. Stendhal. Music assists him in the use of harmonic and mathematical proportion. Vitruvius. Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish. William Blake. Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton. A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself. Thomas a Kempis. Let proportion be found not only in numbers and measures, but also in sounds, weights, times, and positions, and what ever force there is. Leonardo da Vinci. Our energy is in proportion to the resistance it meets. William Hazlitt. Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. Charles Spurgeon. The worth and value of knowledge is in proportion to the worth and value of its object. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 

Article summary. I am back to the subject of animals. It seems there are endless connections between their lives and ours. I, for one, like to keep up with those connections. The creators were made by the same Hands that we were. The article title is  Dog owners take more risks, cat owners are more cautious – new research examines how people conform to their pets’ stereotypical traits. Lei Jia, Assistant Professor of Marketing, Kent State University. At theconversation.com. The beginning part of the story by comparing some ideas about the characteristics of the pets. Dog are “bigger risks”, cats more cautious. Dogs generally like to meet people. Cats on the other hand are more “suspicious” of strangers. The author and a colleague did some studies on the differences. Dog owners take risks in walking the dog being out in “exposure”. The studies also seemed to track how people invested in material items for the two different pets. In the studies there was a “reward-oriented rather than risk-aversion” study to product ads for the pets. For dogs the risk was higher on reward-oriented while higher on risk-oriented for cats.  In conclusion to the tests they felt the “mental association” with the “stereotypical temperaments and personalities” of the pets made the difference in people’s investments. As the article was ending it is mentioned that because pets offer “companionship” both dogs and cats are treated as family. It is also mentioned that in the studies it was determined that due to that relationship the pets influence us and our decisions as much as other friends and family do. 

I think I am going to use DoorDash for dinner tonight. 

Photos in my life today 

This is from my archives. The title is “fish”. I used to keep a large aquarium. It became quite a chore to
maintain a clean up chore so I had to give it up as my age crept in.

This one is “pattern”. This is just one tea cup and saucer left from my mother’s
sets.

This last one is called “looking down”. I went half way up the stairs to get this view of the chair below. I left the edges of the steps in the image. 

Joy

here is one hoping for spring flowers soon