March 2, 2026, a thought for today, He that won't listen, must feel. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

My first challenge upload was “fork.” I tried all kinds of layouts with forks and settled on this one. 

The next upload was “my choice” and is one in my series of “mirror
images.” This is a setting at the park near my house. 

Last is “panning.” I am still learning how to do a decent panning image with a smart phone camera. I tried one in traffic but couldn’t find a place to park to be out of traffic while I was shooting. It takes a minute or so to get a panning with movement. 

Life today. We had a surprise snow fall last night. As I was waking up, I glanced out the window and saw a white covering over the grass, car, driveway and garage roof.  There is probably at least an inch maybe two. I don’t want to pay someone to shovel the snow when we are supposed to have rain and higher temperature beginning tomorrow. 

I have the back part of the bulletin done. The person giving the message can’t send me what I need until at least Tuesday. I have a feeling I am going to have trouble with this one. She asked that I send her a sample bulletin in Microsoft Word format. The bulletin is done in Publisher. The layouts are larger in Publisher and will not convert back to Publisher from Word. I did as she asked and sent it in Word. Hopefully I will be able to cut and paste. This is a bit of a problem since I am already working on the annual report.....so well, such is life. 

I have one portion of the annual report done. Now I am waiting for information that I need to update three of the pages from last years report. Another person has to send me that data. Then I need to find the photos and graphic to finish it. Next on the agenda will be keeping the fingers crossed that the copier will wake up and print. 

I just looked out the window. To my surprise it is beginning to melt!! What a winter we have had. It looks like it will be ending soon. Spring is on it’s way. 

The word today is seize.  Know the true value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it. No idleness; no laziness; no procrastination; never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Lord Chesterfield. Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage. Benjamin Disraeli. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not. John Keats. His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it. Paterculus. Only learn to seize good fortune, for good fortune is always here. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. Jane Austen. If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. Julius Caesar. Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I've got big shoes to fill. This is my chance to do something. I have to seize the moment. Andrew Jackson. Seize the day, and put the least possible trust in tomorrow. Horace. Seize the moment of excited curiosity on any subject to solve your doubts; for if you let it pass, the desire may never return, and you may remain in ignorance. William Wirt. Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine. Friedrich Schiller. There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either. Samuel Johnson. Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake. Francis Bacon. Among the map makers of each generation are the risk takers, those who see the opportunities, seize the moment and expand man's vision of the future. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The right man is the one who seizes the moment. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Gods cannot help those who do not seize opportunities. Confucius. When fortune wishes to bring mighty events to a successful conclusion, she selects some man of spirit and ability who knows how to seize the opportunity she offers. Niccolo Machiavelli.

Article summary. I am interested in human attitudes, feelings and actions related to health, well being and happiness. So this article interested me. I saw that it is written by someone in religious studies. I am interested in observing that side of this story also. The title is More than a feeling – thinking about love as a virtue can change how we respond to hate. Tucker J. Gregor, Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies, University of Iowa. At theconversation.com. The article started pointing out that love is happiness and affection, hate destroys, opposites.  It began by saying this just describes emotions. As a religious ethicist the author wanted to study how love entwines with our moral lives and those around us. I learned that he suggests it may be a virtue rather than an emotion. As I read on, I found that scientists believe the love feeling is a releasing “biochemical processes” and it also needs “practice” and could be a virtue. Therefore, it is better explained as helping to lead to better feelings of health and well being. The article talked about Aristotle’s writing on the subject of virtue. He wrote that learning how to act and feel in all the right ways shapes virtues and can be accomplished with repetition. To build on this effort Aristotle wrote it takes being deliberate in efforts toward moral values, giving to the poor without expecting a gain of one sort or other is an as example. As the article moved on the Christian outlooks on the subject of love was noted as it takes into account emotion, affection, duty and virtue. Mutual friendships are a part of all of this. Then Aristotle reappears in the story as mentioning our capacity to be able to choose builds on are best attributes. He felt this growth leads to how we relate to others. His beliefs leaned on the theological side as a gift of God’s grace to be able to choose like to “embrace or reject.” As the article is nearing an end it mentions that if we can see love as a virtue rather than an emotion we can better see the feelings of hatred. As we see and experience love as a virtue, it is easier to control our thinking and then response to hatred. This practice can lead to things like better controlled  peaceful protest and the likes as well as better empathy. 

I am having something from the freeze for dinner and making a grape costata to go with it.

Photos in my life today

The first upload in the group is “macro Monday.” This is one of the leaves on my fig tree.

Next is “a toy.” This only one of the toys in the toy box we keep in a corner of our visiting younger groups of family and friends.

The last challenge for this feather is “inside”. I tried shooting from outside the
front door but I was getting to many reflections and didn’t have the patience to wait for better lighting. So I used a feather placed “inside” one of out decorative bowls. 

Joy

                               setup for learning to “climb the ladder”

 February 28, 2026, a thought for today, Poverty and hunger have many learned disciples. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This first challenge upload was “on the shelf.” This is one of the several “shelves” in the house. I hope to show at least partial differences in the many photos that are found in my home. 

Next is “texture: close up.” This is a part of a fireplace in one of my grandchildren’s earlier home. 

The last upload for yesterday was “culture.” I felt that a neighborhood image can be a sign of culture. 

Life today. I overslept just a bit but it wasn’t because Bobbi didn’t try hard enough to get me up at the usual “feeding” time, or maybe it was just that I wasn’t cooperating.  

The first thing on the computer after the news headline checks, the email and facebook checks. After that I got back to the annual report. I now have twelve of the fifteen pages done. I am waiting for three more sections to be sent to me. Then I need to send it to someone else to tell me any new groups we have in the church and any changes in staff. I got the cover made. The last thing I will have to do on it will be any graphic or photos I need to put in as filler and dress up. 

Today was grocery pick up day, now that is out of the way with groceries all put away. While I was out I got the photos I need. I am not completely happy with the choices but every time I saw one I thought would work it eluded me somehow. One was on the back of the van in front of me at the stop light. I rushed for camera setting to get it before the truck moved, not quick enough....then I followed him to the next light, just missed that one too. I found one to take its place when I drove though the metro park lot. The others were one’s I had to take quickly or I would have lost them too.

The weather is near perfect today. I hope it is not just a tiny sample for just a minute in time. We are supposed to have a good bit of rain in the next few days. The temperatures are predicted to be in the springtime range though. I am going to have to start thinking about my window/senior gardens. I want to see what may come back up from last year. 

The word today is see. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln. If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. Sir Francis Bacon. All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse. Benjamin Franklin. It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. Arthur Schopenhauer. The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. Daniel Webster. If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. Rene Descartes. When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. Nicholas Chamfort. Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. Otto von Bismarck. Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. Blaise Pascal. One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection. Sir Francis Bacon. What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Jewish Proverb. When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing? Epictetus. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius. When thou seest an eagle, thou seest a portion of genius; lift up thy head! William Blake. It is as hard to see one's self as to look backwards without turning around. Henry David Thoreau. 

Article summary. I like to consider feelings. How people handle the parts of their lives that show emotion. I think about how feelings affect not only ourselves but also those around us in terms of health and well-being. This article title is Meekness isn’t weakness – once considered positive, it’s one of the ‘undersung virtues’ that deserve defense today. Timothy J. Pawl, Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas. At theconversation.com. In some further research I found that meekness means “strength under control” and “softness of temper.” The article cited a passage in the bible “blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth”. Many see meekness as weakness, a submission to “oppression.” As I read on, I gathered that in the article this characteristic it may be seen in such a person as slow, obedient, passive, condensing. I learned that apparently our ancestors saw these signs to be “virtues”. It’s my understanding that an argument can be settled in a calm manner. Someone being “meek” may settle the event by calmly taking a softer way to do that. Self control may be used in connection with meekness. Docility is another word aligning with meekness. I get the feel from the article we may want to “rename” the word and emotion called meek. Something with a moral virtue feel and restraint attachment. I think the word meek is important to our language it just needs to be more understood, for that matter, more respected.

I think it will back tortilla shell pizza for dinner or hamburgers. 

Photos in my life today

My first challenge is “architecture.” I didn’t get a capture while I was out and about so I chose to share this one on my neighborhood block.

The next upload assignment is titled  “kindness.” I feel signs like this show some form of “kindness” by the person who chose to show it. 

The last one for today is “hand.” I felt what better way to show a hand, one
giving and one receiving.

joy 

        

                my four composites of photo a day images for the month of February 2026