April 27, 2026, a thought for today, The eye is blind if the mind is absent. Italian Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

This first challenge for yesterday was “my choice.” This is one of my “in camera filters” images. This is a filter I like to play with after I have an image and its original is saved. There is a set of filters on my Samsung 24+ camera allow I to re-create the in camera image. 

The next image challenge title is “potato.” How don’t know how to get to
creative with a potato. It may have given me a little more to be “artistic” a “potato eye” on it.

This last image for yesterday was “something that makes a sound,” and what a beautiful sound this would be.

Life today. This has been one of those days when one thing pops up for attention then another. When I had the lap top fixed, they installed a virus protection software on it. I realized that my PC hasn’t had an updated virus protection. The one that was installed on the lap top can be installed on two other pieces of equipment. I didn’t know quite how to work that so I was online for an hour and a half with the virus software company finding how to get it installed on this one. I finally got it done. There was a problem with the mouse working the other day. I borrowed one from church to see the mouse was the problem or if it was the computer. It was the mouse so that problem is solved. 

I finished the bulletin and had it out for proofing. I got the fixes done so now it is ready. I also spent some time “shopping” at Etsy. I wanted to order something for my great grandson’s first communion. 

Then I attempted to get a couple of household chores done. I have only one left that I want to get done today. 

The weather is taking another of one its switches. It is cooling down again for a few days. I was able to have the doors and a couple of windows open a few days ago and was too warm under the blankets at bed time. Now it’s back to shut windows and more blankets. 

The word today is. The word today is truth. Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. Thomas Jefferson. 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. Facts are the enemy of truth. Miguel de Cervantes. All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.  Arthur Schopenhauer. Great men's errors are to be venerated as more fruitful than little men's truths. Friedrich Nietzsche. One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better. Blaise Pascal. The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth. George Eliot. There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes. Love truth, and pardon error. Voltaire. Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. Benjamin Disraeli. Never lose sight of this important truth, that no one can be truly great until he has gained a knowledge of himself, a knowledge which can only be acquired by occasional retirement. Johann Georg von Zimmermann. Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. Immanuel Kant. The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end. Harriet Beecher Stowe. We know truth, not only by reason, but also by the heart. Blaise Pascal. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau. Truth indeed rather alleviates than hurts, and will always bear up against falsehood, as oil does above water. Miguel de Cervantes.

Article summary. I like art and am involved in a project of a personal nature right now. So this article caught my attention on a couple of levels. Along with my ideas of presentation it is interesting for me to see how teachers set up their class lessons. The title is “‘But I’m not artistic’: how teachers shape kids creative development.” Dr. Gai Lindsay, Lecturer/ Coordinator of Regional Campuses: The Early Years, University of Wollongong. At theconversation. The article opened with an interesting point. In this world of “creative thinking” it is important for children to foster their creative growth in that area. This form of thinking in many areas of life can offer success in ways of growth and life experiences.  I didn’t realize until I read this article there is a thing called the “Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 31)” (I did some off to the side research on this subject, very interesting and too long to go into here). In part it states that youth less than 18 have the right “to access and fully participate in cultural and artistic life.” The article further states that this can be a foundation to “all future creative learning and development.” In that this article’s title involved how teachers’ handle this aspect we should be concerned that children “have access to “high-quality visual art education.” As it goes on it says that when you visit early education classes you may see “art work” of the children hanging on the walls, but this alone is not a sign of the teachers skills and knowledge to “provide quality visual arts experiences”. The article relates that teachers need knowledge of how visual art experience can enhance “learning and development”. It goes on to say art can lead to “motivation, enjoyment, positive attitudes, cognitive problem solving, self-discipline” as well as “tools for communication”. It seems the article is pointing out that in many cases teachers see the children’s “art time” ad in some way to keep them busy or form “fine-motor” skill’s development instead of the “of creative and open-ended use of quality art materials”. In ending the article the author states that universities training of educators may need work so that they get “skills-based courses needed to reconsider the training of all educator” in the area of their “ability to teach art”.

I think it will be chili for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

The first challenge for today is “something prickly”. This is one of my six miniature rose plants that will
go in my “rose garden” window boxes. 

The second upload is “city scape” I took this one when I worked downtown several years ago. This main building in the image is a Columbus Ohio icon. 

The last image for today is “kids”. Again this is an image from my
archives. These girls are no longer “kids” instead they are not “teens”. They are my twin nieces. 

Joy 

just an image of an arrangement of a wicker chair and “artful display” plants display in a downtown public building

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