My Life, My World

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