April 23, 2026, a thought for today, All brains are not in one head. Italian Proverb

Photo in my life yesterday

My first upload for yesterday was “earth day”. I was trying for and artful and unique way of presenting an image for this. It turned out to be just this simple one of my recycle can. 

The second challenge was “animal or wildlife”. I have several of “wild” geese and this is one of them. 

The last upload was “something that flies”. I had to go to my photo archives for this one. I have a couple airplanes taking off and one or tow more of this nature. So chose this one for this upload. 

Life today. Wow what a week this has been, I am getting to old for this kind of pace. I am finding I am one day behind in uploading my photos, letters and blogs. 

This was one heck of a day. It started out good but then a bump appeared. I got to the church to print and turned the computer on the first thing since I knew it would take a long time to boot up. Then I got the bulletin started printing from a pdf file on the copier. Patti and I have figured out one way of speeding things up a bit. She leaves the computer on over night which helps for a quicker boot when I get there in the morning. It is still slow but much better. Today Publisher, the software I use, was up when I was about half way through the bulletins. So I started opening  the newsletter. Each step in doing that takes about five or ten minutes for opening the document, then opening the printer dialog and setting the numbers needed then sending a proof copy then the load. That all happened in decent time, considering the history of things with the aging computer. Then the “bump”. The stabler in the copier ran out of staples and quit printing. I have never loaded the staples in this copier. I had to find where they were kept in the office then learn how to load them. I found some but they didn’t look like the ones needed for this copier. Then I opened the stapler compartment on the copier to see if I would be able to teach myself how to do it. I could see the instructions. As it ended I need thirty more copies of the newsletter. Hopefully Patti will know how to load them and finish the run. In the morning I will do the folding and the rest. It we have to order staples I will have to hand staple the thirty I need. Sorry to be so long winded in the “vent”. 

When I left the church I made a trip to Michael’s to pickup two of the photo I had done and some other supplies for the church “gallery” that I hope to get initiated soon. I have five photos ready for hanging but no one to hang them yet. 

When I got home I started the laundry. Lowell came by to bring me the laptop that I sent in for a new battery. It turns out it wasn’t the battery it was a virus. So now it’s well and back home.

It looks like this will be another late day for letters and photos.

The word today is treat. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. Samuel Johnson. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson. There is some magic in wealth, which can thus make persons pay their court to it, when it does not even benefit themselves. How strange it is, that a fool or knave, with riches, should be treated with more respect by the world, than a good man, or a wise man in poverty! Ann Radcliffe. Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old. Lord Chesterfield. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. Henry David Thoreau. Treat a man as he appears to be, and you make him worse. But treat a man as if he were what he potentially could be, and you make him what he should be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle of existence. Otto von Bismarck. To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated. Francois De La Rochefoucauld. Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities. Charles Dickens. Treat your inferiors as you would be treated by your betters. Seneca. We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality. Oscar Wilde. An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them.

Article summary. This seemed interesting. I wanted to see if having a dog in the White House, or not, can tell us a little about the people who live and work there. Maybe we can look at it by the written word and possibly the inference, called “reading between the lines, both humanely and spiritually. The title is “Could a dog pick the next president?” Clive Wynne, Professor of Psychology, Arizona State University. At theconversation. It opened by saying what I was in a round about way that many people say “Never trust a person who doesn’t like dogs.” Then it relates that “dogs reveals something essential”, this is also what I believe. The author is a “dog psychologist” and studies dogs and their people. He said he would like to have a dog indicate what candid he should choose, that being the character tendencies.  He also says that there are good people with bad dogs sand vice versa. The article relates that the Washington Post pointed out that “every occupant of the White House since William McKinley has had a dog at some point”. Then the article said that “ a couple of weeks ago” Mr. Trump said “having a dog would be “phony.” He went on to relay that when a dog was killed in a recent raid Mr. Trump was quoted as saying “he died like a dog.” As the article continues it describes some of the presidents and their canine companions. Mr. Biden had a German Shepherd. He adopted the dog when it was a puppy that had been exposed to toxic chemicals . Senator Warren had a pup named Bailey, as in the movie “it’s a wonderful life”. George H.W. Bush had a  dog named Millie. The article mentioned that some elected folks pick a “pooch” after they are elected never having had a pet before that. The Obama’s got Bo three months after the inauguration. Mr. Clinton got a chocolate Labrador in his second term . Mr. Trump’s former wife, Ivana, had a dog named Chappy but Mr. Trump when heaed she was bringing the dog to New York he said no. Mr Trump is sometimes seen holding a dog now then that belongs to someone else. Harry Truman gave his dog, Feller, away. The article ends saying that picking a candidate to vote for may “need to be taken with more than a pinch of salt”. So in conclusion picking a new president has to be with more than one character one determining factor. 

 It’s going to be soup, salad and sandwich for dinner. 

Photo in my life today

The first challenge for today is another if the “animal or wildlife”. This time I chose Bobbi in one of her “I’m watching you” moods. 

The second upload for today is “a is for...”. I chose an apron for this one. Instead of putting in on and taking a selfie. 

The last upload for today is “in my garden”. Since it is out of season for my gardens I am using another one from my archives. 

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                                            This one isn’t in my garden now I wish it were 

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