March 12, 2026, a thought for today, Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This challenge was “use your imagination.” This is one of the flowers in the bouquet I bought last Saturday. It has given all it had to give, it is leaving with a bit of beauty as it goes. 

The second upload was “shadow.” This is a set of shadows on the side of my garage. 

The last upload “prime lens image.” This was taken with my Samsung 24+ smart phone camera so that is a “prime lens.”

Life today. As a worry wart my emotions were true to form last night. I was concerned that I would have trouble getting the computer at the church to work to process in the annual repot for coping. This morning. Last night I asked Patti if she would leave Publisher open when she left the office hoping it would open quicker for me this morning. She did, and it worked. I had the bulletin and the annual report done in about an hour and a half. I dropped off the mail, got a couple of photos I need for the day and headed home. Sue was getting in her car. I called out the window as I was going in the drive way and said I would like for us to head for Andy and Tami’s now if it was good with her. I dropped off a couple of things in the house and we headed for their house. 

We were there for an hour or so. We had a great visit. We also had a good time playing with Abe their Boson Terrier. He is so full of life and energy. It was a great visit. We picked up sandwiches on the way home. As we pulled in the drive way the neighbors on either side were out side enjoying the weather so we traded greetings. 

I had a good bit of this letter started earlier. So as I got back in from our visit I got back to working on it and the photos. 

I normally do the laundry on Thursday but with the visit I am putting it off until tomorrow. I had a special meeting for church on Saturday morning so I am pickup up groceries tomorrow, Friday, instead. I need to place the online order this afternoon. 

All in all this has been a beautiful day. 

The word today is sight. Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. Johann Georg von Zimmermann. In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. Publilius Syrus. We walk by faith, not by sight. Bible, 2 Corinthians v. 7. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight? William Shakespeare. If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things. Vincent van Gogh. Often a certain abdication of prudence and foresight is an element of success. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away. Marcus Aurelius. Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. Alexander Pope. Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul. Ovid. Presumption should never make us neglect that which appears easy to us, nor despair make us lose courage at the sight of difficulties. Benjamin Banneker. Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth. Herman Melville. For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight. Aeschylus. Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue. Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield. A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. Thomas Carlyle. Behold a worthy sight, to which the God, turning his attention to his own work, may direct his gaze. Behold an equal thing, worthy of a God, a brave man matched in conflict with evil fortune. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries. Maimonides. There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone. Henry David Thoreau. The greatest talents often lie buried out of sight. Plautus. Our sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. Joseph Addison.

Article summary. I have always realized that music is the universal language. What I was looking for when I came across this article was a story on how music ultimately affects the soul and offers an entry to better health and well being. I hadn’t read this article through when I started the summary so I am hoping that it at least gives a peek into that idea of music’s affect on the senses. The article title is How music helps resolve our deepest inner conflicts. Leonid Perlovsky, Visiting Scholar, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University. At theconverarion.com. As I began reading I learned there were humans with far more reaching intelligence than mine as people like  Aristotle and Darwin who wondered the same. They most likely went about their search in a more analytical way than mine. The author of this article claims that music “helps us navigate a world rife with contradictions.” He says that music affects our brains when we are faced with “unpleasant feeling” or when we hear something that “opposes existing beliefs.” We may tend to a “rejection of new knowledge”. These feelings have a name “cognitive dissonance.” Throughout history people have learned to overcome this “disability” by trying to “ignore” the unpleasantness or ideas that doesn’t line up with our “existing beliefs.” This article mentions that “music helps us grapple with dissonance” and that it probably was in history how people adapted to problems. The article says that there have been experiments that have proven how music has worked in this light. One of the experiments was preformed with small children. Five popular toys were given to them. They were told to “rank” the toys by which was a favorite. The person preforming the test told the children they had to leave for a few minutes and were told not to play with the “second ranked” toy. When the person doing the test returned the “second ranked” toy was ignored. When this same test was completed with music turned on during the time they left “the toy retained its original value.” Another test was done with fifteen years old. They were given a multiple choice exam to pick the “difficulty” with each question. They answered the hard questions first to get them out of the way and got lower grades for that choice. When “Mozart” was played in the background more time was spent on answering the questions. The conclusions are that music “helps us reconcile our own conflicted emotions when making choices,” choices  about whatever is in our thoughts at the time we hear the music. 

I am thinking soup and sandwiches for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

The first upload is “my town.” This was taken a while back and has been waiting in my archives. 

The next assignment upload is “your subject is a tree.” I took several photo for this one. I like the shapes and hidden stories  in winter tree limbs.

The last challenge for today is “a book.” I read mostly ebooks. This one was
given to me as a Christmas gift. 

Joy

                    she was at the Ohio State Fair last summer