February 8, 2026 a thought for today. When the word is out, it belongs to another. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

My first challenge was “grey”. Well, Bobbi is mostly grey in color with a bit of black and a bit of white, even just a touch of orange. I had the camera set for black and white for one of the other photos I need today so I used this shot for the “grey” also.

Next was “what I am reading”. This is the ebook on my tablet that I am current
deeply involved in. I can’t go wrong with a Baldacci book.

Last for yesterday was “my choice” a series of my “black and white”. This is in a corner of my living room.

Life today. Marion was our minister today. In my opinion her sermons (messages) are always “down to earth” and very easy to relate to. A message about the “light” that each of us are destined to be is inspiring. It is a light we all should learn to share. All three of the hymns helped us to ask to be led to that purpose.

The second snow that needed cleared has been cleared in my area enough to get out. Lowell took me to pick up the groceries yesterday. As it turned out I could have made it to the store. With the snow drifts around the entries to the house it was hard to unload the groceries and get them inside. He was able to do it far easier than I could have. 

Again since the snow covered areas were cleared enough to get through I got to church easily. After church I had a couple of stops to make. I stopped at Kroger for meds and a couple of things I had forgotten on yesterday’s list. Then I went on to Strader’s Garden Center for the potting soil I need to get started on the terrarium. The paring lot at the garden center was barely cleared but accessible. 

My “get oil changed” light is on in the car so I tried making an online appointment for tomorrow a Midas. 

The rest of the day will be quiet to help refresh and renew. 

A word for today is regular. Our days are a kaleidoscope. Every instant a change takes place in the contents. New harmonies, new contrasts, new combinations of every sort. Nothing ever happens twice alike. The most familiar people stand each moment in some new relation to each other, to their work, to surrounding objects. The most tranquil house, with the most serene inhabitants, living upon the utmost regularity of system, is yet exemplifying infinite diversities. Henry Ward Beecher. Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony. Sir Thomas Browne. Memory depends very much on the perspicuity, regularity, and order of our thoughts. Many complain of the want of memory, when the defect is in the judgment; and others, by grasping at all, retain nothing. Thomas Fuller. Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires. Saint Augustine. The motions of the comets are exceedingly regular, and they observe the same laws as the motions of the planets, but they differ from the motions of vortices in every particular and are often contrary to them. Isaac Newton. Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. Vitruvius. Punctuality is the stern virtue of men of business, and the graceful courtesy of princes. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. To be faithful in prayer it is indispensable that we arrange all the activities of the day with a regularity that nothing can disturb. Francois Fenelon. The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. Francis Bacon. Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. Gustave Flaubert. Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it. Horace Mann. 

Article summary. I don’t see my children, grand children, great grandchildren every day. I think of them always. I make it a habit to “reach out and touch” my two living children everyday. I don’t feel comfortable and at ease if I don’t. In this day and age I have the capability to “reach out and touch” some of my family virtually. I realize it is not a physical touch. It’s the closest I can get and though it doesn’t touch physically it does touch emotionally and spiritually. It is a bond and a connection. So...the reason I picked this article. The title to the article is Touch creates a healing bond in health care. Richard Gunderman, Chancellor's Professor of Medicine, Liberal Arts, and Philanthropy, Indiana University. Brian LeLand, Fellow, Section of Pediatric Critical Care, Department of Pediatrics, Indiana University School of Medicine. At theconversation.com. It opened with an interesting comment. Doctors seem to be sending less time with patients. It seems that machinery is helping them to move through the “system” more quicky allowing less time for small helpful personal contact with each.  Then it goes on to say that with all the modern technology aids in the moments of few contacts are shorter. And yet, the article goes to say the “physician’s hand remains one of medicine’s most valuable diagnostic tools” with that touch also adds a bond. The article goes on to say there are situation where touch would and could do more than words to turn things around. I was interested in the section of the article that related about Native American healers “relying” on touch as an “essential” part of treatment. That thought along with mentioning that kings and queens believed in the “royal touch”, a “laying on of hands to heal”. Some other things that were mentioned was that safety is not altered by a touch, that well being for family members is enhanced by touching, thirdly a touch for an ill child helps the parent feel useful in the care of the child. Touching is a sense of connection. Touching is free and is a powerful healing tool.

I think we will have meatloaf for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

The first for today is another of “my choice” and another of my series of black and white. It is a musical instrument, my dulcimer, that I use to play many years ago.

Next is a challenge called “food”, a stalk of celery and a bunch of carrots fit that title. 

Lastly is “on the ground”. I used a painterly filter on this one. It is from my archives, shot in the fall. 

Joy

                                 only slightly broken