April 1, 2026, a thought for today, The sun will bring to light what lay under the snow. German Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This assignment challenge was called “love.” She is a personification of that in this house right now. 

The next challenge was titled “psychedelic.” This is one of the images I created using Photoshop filers on an original photo image. 

The last upload in yesterdays photos was “a square.” I was searching around the house for something square. We have lots of rectangles, now so many squares. This one is the bottom of a serving tray. Some of these assignments give way to observation. 

Life today. I am having another beautiful day, I think I might be spring fever. I have the items that had a deadline done, that is always a relief. I am ready for the “print day” tomorrow. 

We lined up a new lawn care to do the mowing in my yard. They were here yesterday. The lawn looks good. The grass in the back always grows faster. I think it still looks a little long to me but the whole lawn front, back and sides all look refreshed. Hopefully this one will work out on all fronts. 

Another thing I got done today was order all of my plants for this season. I have decided two of the window boxes will be “miniature rose gardens.” 

I did a trial run on printing one of the photos I want to hang on a wall at the church. I wanted to check on how the printer would handle the ink on the glossy surface of the photo paper. On this test pieces it worked fine. 

I am going to rejoin a photo group I joined several years ago. I slacked off on it a couple of years back. I see it as sort of an “Etsy store” in that some of my photos are placed on clothing, pillows as well as printed to be framed and hung. It is called Fine Art America. I may want to readjust some things there as well as be uploading new photos. 

The word today is speech.  Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. Sir Francis Bacon. Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. William Penn. Be a craftsman in speech that thou mayest be strong, for the strength of one is the tongue, and speech is mightier than all fighting. Maxims of Ptahhotep. Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about. Saskya Pandita. The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Confucius. Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. Chuang-tzu. Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. Publilius Syrus. In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought. Tiberius. Tears at times have all the weight of speech. Ovid. In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. Pythagoras. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech. Simonides. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle. Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation. Benjamin Disraeli. If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter. George Washington. Extemporaneous speaking should be practiced and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public. However able and faithful he may be in other respects, people are slow to bring him business if he cannot make a speech. Abraham Lincoln. No speech can stain what is noble by nature. Sophocles. Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Let eloquence be flung to the dogs rather than souls be lost. What we want is to win souls. They are not won by flowery speeches. Charles Spurgeon.

Article summary. My church is awesome on the inside. We have had couples come there just to be married in its elegance. I have also marveled in the ornate and grandeur in the architecture of many European churches and cathedrals. I was interested in what this article may describe some of the thought on this subject. The title is What are the origins of cathedrals and chapels? Samuel L. Boyd, Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder. At theconversation. The article begins by pointing that they are not only places of worship they are also placed to display “religious iconography and art.” Early on before the fourth century the art work and worship itself took place in the catacombs. The article mentioned that people felt this was the safest place “due to persecutions by the Roman government.” There was talk by some historians that there were also other reasons for using the catacombs for this purpose. I learned that the cross was not widely “displayed” until “the Roman emperor Constantine converted to Christianity in the fourth century A.D.”After that other places of worship began being built. That early architecture was “borrowed” from “ancient temples and places of Roman administration.” As far as the ancient temple style was used because they were thought of as spaced where gods or goddess lived.” The article went on to say that cathedrals display art “depicting” Jesus as being “present” in communion, explaining why it is “widely held” in religious history that He is present in the holy places. Here is something I learned from the article many ancient Christian temples were oriented “from the east to the west” and may still be used with that in mind. In describing a second form of “early Christian churches” the Roman administrative buildings were used as model for their construction. I learned that cathedral means “seat” and Roman society thought of these as a place where life was governed. On a smaller scale than temples and cathedrals is a building called a chapel for religious worship.  There is a story about the term chapel. There was a bishop in a church in France who wore a cloak as he walked by a poor man. As the bishop passed the poor man he thought of words in the Gospel of Matthew about helping the poor was helping God. The bishop gave his clock to the poor man. The story said that the poor man was Jesus himself. So pieces of that cloak having touched Jesus caused some to build a house to hold those pieces of that cloth. These small building were chapels “from Latin capella for “little cloak.” 

I have some frozen homemade spaghetti and meat balls in the freezer. I will have that for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

My first challenge upload for today is “green.” What better than the needles of an evergreen tree. 

The next upload was titled “bokeh.” I am a little rusty on creating the bokeh type photos. Christmas trees seem to be the only one in my experience right now. 

The last upload for today is “April Fools day.” This only thing I could come up with that was close to that idea was this joker card. The hat seem to be much the same as an icon on clip art photos that captures an “April fool.” 

Joy

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