February 24, 2026, a thought for today, Judges should have two ears, both alike. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This first upload challenge was “movement.” This was as close as I could get to movement today. She was having a good time with the ball and string. 

Next is the challenge “bubble.” This was the sink when dumped a pan of soapy
water after scrubbing it. 

The last one in these uploads is “a gift I received”. I don’t read hard copy much anymore but I will read these gifts I received. 

Life today. My kitten is growing quickly before my eyes. I seem to be seeing it as a child growing and developing. Since their lives are shorter than a human life their time of changes as they grow seems to be much faster than in a human child. She use to play with certain toys exclusively, now not so much. She now wants something new, ones needing more bodily experiences. Her moods seem to be changing. Some habits she use to express have changed to a different form. There are some staying the same like laying by my legs when I am “down” for the evening in the lounge chair....I hope that one doesn’t change, I need that. She will be an “adult” (for food change) next month on the 20th making her twelve months old, about 15 years in human time. Twelve months to fifteen years.

I had some time to work just a tiny bit on starting the annual report for church. It is due in about two weeks. It will take that time to get all the reports and a still gives me time to put them together in the booklet. 

I stopped writing this letter to go to the church to help at our food pantry. This was a very slow day. My regular pardner working on the computers to do the checking in was not able to be there today so we had someone sitting in for her. We had time during longer breaks to check our cell phones for things going on in other areas of our lives. This was someone I have not met before, it was nice meeting a new friend. 

On the way home I went by Wendy’s for a sandwich but the line was out to the street so I switched over to McDonalds. Back home, I had to take a few minutes to set up a couple of the photos for today and get them cataloged. Now I am ready for all of the uploads. 

The word today is saw. ...whoever saw old age that did not applaud the past and condemn the present? Michel de Montaigne. I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may - light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. John Constable. The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him. Cicero. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before. Samuel Johnson. I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free. Michelangelo. I threw my cup away when I saw a child drinking from his hands at the trough. Diogenes. A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent. John Calvin. I'm not smart, but I like to observe. Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why. William Hazlitt. Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn and one of ivory. Those which pass through the one of sawn ivory are deceptive, bringing tidings which come to nought, but those which issue from the one of polished horn bring true results when a mortal sees them. Homer. We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. Francois De La Rochefoucauld. You will not enter paradise until you have faith. And you will not complete your faith until you love one another. Muhammad. What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another. Virgil. In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me. Saint Augustine. My good works, however wretched and imperfect, have been made better and perfected by Him Who is my Lord: He has rendered them meritorious. As to my evil deeds and my sins, He hid them at once. The eyes of those who saw them, He made even blind; and He has blotted them out of their memory. Saint Teresa of Avila.  

Article summary. I’m interested in art, all about art, all of the kinds of art, and about its power on the soul. I like learning about the minutia of all it’s forms and ways of connecting with the universe and each of our lives. My own attempts with my photography may seem simple at times but I will keep on expressing what I see in my world. My sister was blessed with the gift in her “eye” for design and form in sketches, and painting. It seems to come naturally for her. The title to the article is Michelangelo hated painting the Sistine Chapel – and never aspired to be a painter to begin with. Anna Swartwood House, Associate Professor of Art History, University of South Carolina. At theconversation.com. I was amazed to read in the first sentence that in the February 2026 a 5 inch by 4 inch drawing by Michelangelo of a woman’s foot sold for twenty-seven million dollars. They say it is believed to be a “study” piece for a portion of the ceiling in the Sistine Chapel in Rome. I learned that before Michelangelo began the paintings in the chapel he sketched out the whole composition in details in a series of drawings. It was mentioned that about fifty of the original drawings “survive” today. The sale has pulled to the forefront of thinking in the art field Michelangelo’s “devotion” to drawing. As I continued to read I learned that he didn’t feel that painting was his prime interest, sculpting was. In 1506 one of his sculpting pieces was “put on hold” in order to use the “funds” for a tomb. In apparent anger Michelangelo closed his studio and ordered his “wagon loads” of marble to be sold. In 1508 he was “lured” back to Rome to paint at the Sistine. He wrote to his father saying that painting  “is not my profession.” It is said that he felt painting in the chapel was backbreaking work. He wrote a poem to a friend telling many of the things that annoyed him as he was working on the now treasured painting. In the poem he shows some of his drawings that would go into the work. Many of his sketches showed the “architectural renderings and schemes to organize the huge space.” He sketched body parts and gestures that would become part of the Sistine. Many of the drawings are in the British Museum. I was interested in the part of the article that mentions that doctors today “are impressed by the anatomical precision of the muscles and veins of each foot” of the “David” statue by Michelangelo. In 1534 he was “commissioned” to paint “The Last Judgment” on the altar wall of the Sistine Chapel. It was started later when Pope Paul III called him the “Chief Architect, Sculptor, and Painter to the Vatican Palace.”

I didn’t have the chili mac I was planning on having the other day. I think I will have it tonight. 

Photos in my life today

This upload was supposed to by “3:00pm”. I was about two minutes off when I remembered I needed this shot. BTW that clock was one of my “refinement” gifts.

This challenge is titled “a color I like.” I like almost any and all colors but the one I seem to favor most often is blue.

The next assignment challenge is titled “a fruit or vegetable.” I chose a banana just as I was about to have a snack. 

Joy

 

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