March 14, 2026 a thought for today, When the measure is full, it runs over. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This upload was titled “a pet” (or one you saw). She’s mine. Her name is Bobbi. She will be one year old in five days. She is full of energy and without effort brings laughter and smile. 

The next challenge is “fresh as a daisy.” I’m not sure that this is a daisy (I know that it had to be the daisy flower in person or the metaphor instead).

The last upload for yesterday were “lips.” My sister is always helpful in allowing me to use her for one of my assignments and she doesn’t seem to mind what pose I need. 

Life today. This has been a busy and interesting day. I got up early. I wanted a little time for checking on news headlines, Face book, and emails. I also found I had a short time to get the research parts for this letter done before I had to get ready to go to the meeting that was mandated for members of  our Session committee  at church. Another member and friend picked me up. The meeting was scheduled for a longer time than I had thought. 

The meeting was interesting. It was nice meeting other people from my church’s denomination. They came from several different congregations in the area. There were four of us there from Hogs. 

I managed to get my photos for the day right after I got home. I decided on them quickly so they may not be quite what I would have chosen had I had a little more time. I also needed to get a couple of house hold chores out of the way before turning off the computer, having dinner and heading for the lunge chair for the day. 

The word today is sign. When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. Jonathan Swift. Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it. Spanish Proverb. Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal. Words learned by rote a parrot may rehearse; but talking is not always to converse, not more distinct from harmony divine, the constant creaking of a country sign. William Cowper. There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt. Niccolo Machiavelli, The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. Aristotle. The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne. Gratitude is the sign of noble souls. Aesop. To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. Epictetus.. Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything of its own beneath the sun, for the glory of your name, and that it have no other patrimony than begging. Francis of Assisi. Without a sign, his sword the brave man draws, and asks no omen, but his country's cause. Homer. It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity. Honore de Balzac. Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning. Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up. Brigham Young. A dark cloud is no sign that the sun has lost his light; and dark black convictions are no arguments that God has laid aside His mercy. Charles Spurgeon. The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition. Friedrich Nietzsche. 

Article summary. The title interested me. Being that these are days of technology, I like reading about things I most likely don’t already know about. I use both text and email extensively. I was wondering about this story’s view of both. The title is Should you send a text or email? Here’s some advice from Aristotle. Alexis Elder, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of Minnesota Duluth. At theconveration.com. It began with mentioning the many ways we can reach out and touch friends. It also mentions how we use to do the same not all that long ago. In these days there are email, text, Snapchat, Twitter, Messenger and more.  The “old” ways and may be less used today were/are letters and the telephone. We have to be careful in a way we choose to  communicate. We need to keep in mind that in some of the “newer” ways as in Fascebook and Instagram they can be seen by the public. In those areas of communication we should be aware of “virtue ethics” considering the way our character can be seen in the writing. We have to remember that some of the ones we use may be the kind of “communication that leave permanent records”. I realized something else that the article brought to mind, as we communicate in the “new” ways our old “skills” become weaker. One of those ways that was mentioned is capability to “listen patiently and empathetically”.  It also mentioned something I hadn’t thought about, if we tend to show negative emotion in conversation consider that in writing an email we “slow us down” and are more likely to consider what we are saying. If we take time to recognize are feeling we can choose to use a written message or the use a phone or video.  I think, as this article mentions, “many technologies have both good and bad effects on us”. There has been research on the effects of ways to communicate. The way the article ended was interesting, “we can use technology to help us become the people we want to be.” I tend to see that statement as in considering the method of our communication we are also exercising our way of thinking about the how and affect of that communication.

I am having a hamburger and soup for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

This challenge upload is “my choice” and is one in my series of “in camera filers”. I don’t know if this series of filters is unique to the Samsung or not. I’m sure the other smart phone have techniques like it. I like this one.

The next upload is “a pair of shoes”. My sister and I wear about the same size shoe. She didn’t like this after she got them. She wanted to know if I would like to have them. I’ll give them a try.

The last upload is “frozen”. I needed to come up with a quick one so I used a carton of ice cream in the
ice tray.  

Joy

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