My Life, My World

January 27, 2026 a thought for today, The nail suffers as much as the hole. Dutch Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This first upload is “a snow trail”. There are plenty of snow trails around here right now. This is one taken before more tracks were made to disturb the beauty of the white land cover.

Next is called “leading lines”. These are the tiles in may kitchen leading into the next room.

The last challenge was called “in the kitchen”. Again this is a part of my kitchen. With the typical refrigerator magnet, this has family photo on it.

Life today. The twelve inches of snow is still here and isn’t going anywhere soon. We are having below zero temperatures for the rest of the week. I feel stranded like a lot of my neighbors probably are. The neighbors around me have managed to clear their driveway. Mine is still untouched and still perfectly white. Our street is still nothing but six or eight inch high ruts. I would most likely get stuck in one of those if I were able to first get to my car and next get out of the driveway. I’m not sure how I will get the church bulletin printed this week. Someone who is able to get to the church may have to print it. I can send the file by email for that purpose.... I just this minute got a call about someone who will be coming to shovel the drive way! Now if the snow plow goes down the street this afternoon or tomorrow my spirits will lift a bit.

I think I may be able to get a ride to a dentist or doctor in a day or two. The home remedies are mildly working but it doesn’t look like that is going to be a cure.

I have been considering taking an online master course in still life photography. Being “shut in” would be a perfect time for that.

Right now for the time being anyway I don’t have a “full” agenda. We cancelled our food pantry for this week.

The word today is pure. The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde. When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. Benjamin Disraeli. In a state therefore of great equality and virtue, where pure and simple manners prevailed, the increase of the human species would evidently be much greater than any increase that has been hitherto known. Thomas Malthus. It seldom happens that any As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is pure illusion to think that an opinion that passes down from century to century, from generation to generation, may not be entirely false. Pierre Bayle. Although a man may wear fine clothing, if he lives peacefully; and is good, self-possessed, has faith and is pure; and if he does not hurt any living being, he is a holy man. Denis Diderot. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. What are riches - grandeur - health itself, to the luxury of a pure conscience, the health of the soul; - and what the sufferings of poverty, disappointment, despair - to the anguish of an afflicted one! Ann Radcliffe. Times of general calamity and confusion create great minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storms. Charles Caleb Colton. The purest treasure mortal times afford is spotless reputation; that away, men are but gilded loam or painted clay. William Shakespeare. We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. Buddha. There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it. Ovid. The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love color the most. John Ruskin. Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci. A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. Cicero. It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. Margaret Fuller.

Article summary. Here is a another view at dieting. Since I am on a diet of sorts, I have three health issues that require diet considerations. This article looked like something among all the other information on this subject to consider. The title to the article is All foods can fit in a balanced diet – a dietitian explains how flexibility can be healthier than dieting. Charlotte Carlson. Director of the Kendall Reagan Nutrition Center, Colorado State University. At theconversation.com. It started with all the many reasons people may be talking about how to eat as what to eat or not to eat, when to eat, try this, or a particular diet. The author is mentioning how most of this isn’t necessary to an extreme extent. She mentions that health and nutrition are necessary and it may be just as simple to accept an antidote of “all-foods-fit approach to nutrition”. In this story it is mentioned that most food can “fit to a healthy diet” by working to balance food and nutrition in a healthy way. All foods have at least a portion of health and nutrition allowances. It is a question of flexibility and paying attention to your body’s “internal cues”. In the “diet” setting food is “black and white”. In a nutritional setting it is more “complex”. It depends on how our living is involved with “exercise, sleep, stress, mental health, socioeconomic status” and access to food. It appears that the article is saying that when you learn the value or benefits of different types of food as vegetable and fruits to those considered “untouchable on a diet” you can achieve a balance of what is in a full meal or period of eating and snacking. For instance instead of eating several pieces of pizza eat one or two pieces balanced with vegetables or more nutritional food. This gives your body more of a “healthy” full feeling. This article suggests on how to get started in this way of eating. Instead of thinking of a food as good or bad for a diet think about the nutritional elements. Think of how your body feels as far as hunger or fullness. Eat on a regular basis. If there is a long gap between regular meals have a small heathy snack. It may become possible with a balance and more attention to food nutrients you can add what use to be considered “bad” food in small portions back to parts of your meal plans.

I think it will be chili for dinner tonight.

Photos in my life today