March 16, 2026, a thought for today, Everyone has his master. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first upload was “my choice.” It is one in my series of “in camera filer.” 

The next challenge was “text.” I had checked all kinds of text image. I used the 10 commandments and the 23rd Psalm. Then I saw this booklet laying on the table and used it since there is a little extra in the photo.

The third image is “a window.” Though this has several windows there is one that is open. 

The last challenge is “from the back”. This is one of the last images I have as Sweet Pea. 

Life today. This has been a mildly tense Monday, but not overly stressful. I managed to get the bulletin done.  As I was waking up I started a to-do list. I needed to make a couple of phone calls, one with the person who will be giving the message this week. Then I was thinking I had to pay some attention to my car. Yesterday as we were coming out of church someone noticed I had a low tire. They put air in it for me. I need to decide to have it changed or just see what happens. I checked on it this morning. It still seems to be at the correct pressure. I turned on the engine to see if the “tire pressure” message would come on, it didn’t. 

Another of the “waking thoughts” was about the photo challenges I do every day. I had taken on a new one and I have one that hasn’t been enough of a “challenge” so I have decided to let those two go. I belong a group called FineArtrAmerica where our work can be purchased in the form of prints, pillows, shirts and more. I have not paid attention for a long while. I have decided to get back to it. I need to do some “clean up” and re-align some things as well as make more uploads. I have become more aware of how thing work there. I need to spend some time on it.

Then to top to day off the computer is becoming very slow in all processes. It most likely needs a “clean up” that I would prefer a technician would do. I will limp along on it until I have a few straight days of free time.  

The word today is silent. 'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln. I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue; he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right. Cato the Elder. It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras. Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling. Walt Whitman. Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. Epictetus. I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. Eugene Delacroix. What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined... to strengthen each other... to be one with each other in silent unspeakable memories. George Eliot. Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. Henry David Thoreau. A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. Publilius Syrus. There is a wide difference between speaking to deceive, and being silent to be impenetrable. Voltaire. I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations. James Madison. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Simonides. A silent mouth is sweet to hear. Irish Proverb. Laws are silent in times of war. Cicero. An event had happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. Edmund Burke. The Inspiration You Seek Is Already Within You. Be Silent And Listen. Rumi. If I speak, I am condemned. If I stay silent, I am damned! Victor Hugo. When they remain silent, they cry out. Marcus Tullius Cicero. Let us be silent — so we may hear the whisper of the gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson. The mouth keeps silent to hear the heart speak. Alfred de Musset. Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key. Rumi. Silence is a true friend who never betrays. Confucius. True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment. William Penn. 

Article summary. I am a life long lover of animals, all kinds of animals which leads to my interest in any articles I see referring to them. As their champion I tend to want to share what I learn about them. This is one of those stories. The article title is A pet friendly homeless shelter pilot reduced the rate of homelessness among the people it helped in California. Benjamin F. Henwood, Professor of Social Policy and Health, University of Southern California. At theconversation.com. The story started by telling of how a research program in  California in 2019 did a study of how to make homeless shelters more “accommodating” to more unhoused folks. The study ultimately showed that allowing pets in the shelters was a success. After the study there was funding to provide “pet-friendly” spaces along with food, supplies and vet care. This program allows homeless folks with pets to be able to stay together under shelter instead of out in the weather. It was found that the program helped 4,407 people. In the study they found that before this program was put in place more than half of homeless people with pets were turned away from shelters. They found that the number of homeless with pets have increased in recent years. The reasons for that growth in number has been undetermined but one estimate is that pets help unhoused people “to deal with their social isolation and loneliness.” These kinds of programs seem to want to bring more people off the streets. After the California program there were others in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohio and others. 

I am having a tuna patty and rice for dinner tonight with salad and fruit. 

Photos in my life today 

This first upload for today is “my choice” and is one of “macro Monday.” It is one of the gorgeous carnations in my most current bouquet. 

The next challenge upload is “favorite pie.” I didn’t have any pies on hand so it is from the archives. However, it is not early my favorite pie either. That pie would be a pecan pie. I can’t have those due to the diabetes. So this took its place, a cherry pie from my archive. 

The last one is “a mess.” This is one of my several “junk drawers.” Actually it is not junk but it is a huge mess. 

Joy

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