My Life, My World

March 30, 2026, Thoughts are toll free, but not hell free. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This first challenge and upload is “my choice”, one of my series of “still life”.

The next upload is “food”. I wanted to add some thing to this so it wouldn’t be just a little ol’ apple.

The last upload is “a plate”. This is one of the most decorative plates I have in the house. It was a gift from one of my neighbors.

Life today. One part of yesterday’s sermon was so powerful that it touched my soul. Those parts began with leads in the sermon to some things about a human or group of humans who violated good Christianity choices and ways of living. Following the lead were the words “and they crucified Him again”. For me those words were so powerful that as soon as I got home and to a computer, I had to use them for a Google search for more wisdom and lessons on the subject. To be up front, I used AI on those searches as well as searches without AI.

Today has been a pleasing Monday. I have the bulletin done up to the pastor’s information. I received one more family’s information on for the Easter Lily dedication sheets. They have been coming in about one on a second or third day. I now have five out of the whole congregation, all due by printing time on Thursday. This is a bit like the speed with which I receive all “secretarial” information through for over fifteen years my part has always been done by the deadline.

I have had some time to get a little more planning done on my window garden plants. I have located an online nursery that is to my surprise located right here in Ohio that carries all of the plants I have in mind. I can’t plant anything for a month but I think I should order them now so I don’t get an “out of stock” message if I make the order later. I also have to order a harness for Bobbi, that will be the way of choice for taking her for her “doctor”visits and checkups. She absolutely HATES the carrying case. With that order I will have to order the attachment to the seat belt connector in the car.

We are having a spring time temperature reading today. I walked outside to find one of my photos for the upload and challenge today.....it felt good to be outside. Even the grass as high as my mid calf felt good.

The word today is soul. What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul. Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. Henry Ward Beecher. Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. Joseph Addison. He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate. Henry David Thoreau. Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is the life of man and the joyfulness of man is length of days. Ecclesiastes. Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body. Oliver Wendell Holmes. If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing. William Shakespeare. Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate. John Fletcher. To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive. Robert Louis Stevenson. To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature. Seneca. Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul. Saint Teresa of Avila. Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Marcus Aurelius Antoninus. By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul. Thomas Moore. To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship. Thomas Moore. Thinking is the talking of the soul with itself. Plato. Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within. Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Article summary. As I have said many times animals fascinate me. I want to learn and share as much as I can about as many as I can, about these other creatures and critters that were created to share our space. The title is 50 years after ‘Jaws,’ researchers have retired the man eater myth and revealed more about sharks’ amazing biology. Associate Professor of Evolutionary Developmental Biology, University of Florida. At theconversation.com. At theconversation.com. The story starts by talking about the movie in 1975 called “Jaws” and how it affected thousands of people while bringing a scary creature into the fray. It led to people being afraid to go into the water. It allowed a “myth” to take shape that sharks are “a murderous eating machine” and “bloodthirsty, mindless killers.” The article relates that the movie “inspired” researchers to become involved in more research into “sharks, their evolution and development” ultimately how we can “benefit” from the study of these “enigmatic animals”. The author of this story was one of the researchers of sharks. He says their jaws and teeth are “the most terrifying aspect” of the shark”. I learned here that they “continue to make an unlimited supply of tooth replacements throughout life”, a whole row of the growth of teeth can occur between 70 to 250 days. The author says it could possibly teach researchers how to help in the “process of tooth renewal”. I read that sharks have lived in earths oceans for over 400 million years, long before human being and dinosaurs. The article goes on to mention some of the other amazing biology of sharks. They have “amazing sensory capabilities”. They can sense “electrical fields” in the bodies of their prey. Some parts of the species can “emit light” and absorb blue light. They can “migrate across” across huge distances. Sharks in Greenland can live for hundreds of years, one was estimated to be 392 years old. They are not in danger of being on the commercial fishing list but “over fishing” of other fish effects their food supply. The article says that due to that and other modern effects on the ocean including their own life cycles may affect their populations. The fact that they are not so popular in commercial fishing it is not the only way their populations are reduced. They are hunted as trophies and for their body parts. I learned here that there are “protections at the international level” for sharks. The article relates that most sharks are “timid”. There are 500 species in the world. I found that each of these species is unique and is a vital part of to “a particular ecosystem”. The article ended by saying sharks “don’t care about people” and we need to “protect these important ocean guardians.”

I think sloppy joe again tonight for dinner.

Photos in my life today