April 15, 2026, a thought for today, The good time comes but once. Italian Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first challenge for yesterday was “mountains or hills.” Where I live there are no mountains that I know of near by nor impressive hills. We do have neighborhood hills or terraces like the ones I have here.

The second upload was “peaches.” I don’t have fresh peaches, only bananas and
apples so I used my canned peaches as my model for this one. 

The last upload challenge was titled “water.” I happened on this one when I got in my car on rainy day. A leaf had parked itself on my windshield.  

Life today. I usually have two weeks each month without commitments at least four of the seven days in a week. This is one of those weeks, where I have only one “commitment” for printing the Sunday materials. So I have been able to catch up on house work, kitty care, personal interests involving my writings and photo work. 

Today I got a tiny start on the church newsletter along with some dishes and kitchen clean up. Before I got a start on the rest, I remembered that I needed to print the envelopes for the bulletin mailings and my great grand children’s activity sheets that I send them every week. I did some kitty care and put some attention on the setting up of things for my project of photos for the church. The last one is taking some time.  I am working on it slowly. I think my biggest problem on that front will be finding someone to hang the photos once I have them ready. I had a friend agree whole heartedly but other things came up in his life making it likely that he won’t be able to help for several months.  In my opinion there are some empty walls on the second level of the church that could, with some time, work and attention, make a small and awesome photo gallery. 

I have the doors open again today, not with the screens in yet just the storm windows in the outer door. I’m working with the daily temperatures moving in to spring. We are supposed to be getting some pretty heavy rain sometime today. 

The word is therefore. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. Socrates. See, I have set before you this day life and good, death and evil... I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse; therefore choose life. Moses. Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many. Baruch Spinoza. Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. Napoleon Bonaparte. Cogito ergo sum. (I think; therefore I am.) Rene Descartes. The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. Paracelsus. Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle. America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself. Georg W. Hegel. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. William Shakespeare. It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. Sitting Bull. Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. Aristotle. Render therefore to all their dues. Bible, Romans 13. 7. Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied. Sophocles. Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. Maimonides. Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. Francis Bacon. Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding. Bible, Proverbs, 4:7.

Article summary. I wanted to see the way being “good” makes us look better, I know it makes us feel better. I just wanted to see this particular way of looking at it.  The title is Doing good may make people look better. Sara Konrath, Associate Professor, Indiana University, Lilly Family School of Philanthropy, Indiana University Indianapolis. Femida Handy, Professor of Social Policy at the School of Social Policy and Practice, University of Pennsylvania. At theconversarion.com. As the first sentence mentions and I agree that being active in most any part of life brings the advantages to “learn new things, meet new people.” What I wanted to see was the thinking on making us more physically heathier and more intriguing as more physically attractive. There have been studies on the subject that have found people who give money, volunteer, give to friends and are organ donors are found more attractive by other people. There were three studies done.  One study was conducted on older adults. People who didn’t know the others were volunteers found that group to be more attractive. A second study was done using the teen aspect. It was found that the ones who volunteered as teens were “rated as more attractive once they became young adults.” Interesting the third study was done on teens from 1957 to 2011 and was a sightly different outcome. Those mentioned in their year books as attractive were likely to give money many years later. The article mentioned that beauty can be in the eyes of the beholder and that people do often agree on how some are more attractive while others are less. The author says that using the best evidence it is possible to see that doing good may make you “appear better-looking tomorrow.”  In explaining more about these studies the article says they don’t know specifically about looking good after volunteering is the answer. They do say that it looks like “beauty and doing good are linked.” Taking it just a step further it may be possible that when we take care of others we are also more likely to take care of ourselves. It ends by quoting a Greek poet named Sappho “He who is fair to look upon is good, and he who is good, will soon be fair also.” 

I froze some goulash a couple of weeks ago. I think I will get one of those out of the freezer for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

The first upload for today is “periwinkle.” I don’t know of any periwinkle that I can find near by so I used as close an image as I could as in these purple violets in my lawn this year.

The second upload is from my archives titled "water". It was taken when I worked downtown near where our copy of the Santa Maria was docked. 

The last photo upload is titled “sunshine”. We did not have much strong sunshine today but I try most time the photo a day that I upload to be a photo I shot that day. There are many reasons why some days I have to us my archives. 

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