April 25, 2026, a thought for today, Who gives, teaches a return. Italian Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday 

The first upload challenge was “share your settings.” The settings were: iso 32, 0.0 ev, F 1.8, 1/60 s. This is one of the roses in a bouquet I got at Kroger while we wait for garden flowers to bloom. 

The next upload was “I tree you love”. This tree is in and has been a couple of
blocks from my house. 

The last upload for yesterday was “nature.” Well, there are thousands of things in nature that we could capture in photos. This one was picked for yesterday.

Life today. This has been eventful Saturday mostly due to a cranky computer. Actually the computer seems to be working slowly but ok. It seems to be the mouse that is showing a problem. I hope to borrow a mouse from the church tomorrow to test it here. If that works, I need a new mouse, if it doesn’t the computer may need some work or I switch back to the laptop. I had it repaired just in time if that’s the case. Doing this letter and the four photos I need for the day have taken up the majority of time today. I did get the grocery pick up done and put away.

I also managed to get a couple of household chores out of the way. I paid the bills yesterday but there was one that gave me a bit of a problem opening properly in my internet connection. I was able to take care of that quickly today. 

I finished the day yesterday on a project I am working on. A dear friend of mine who sees my photo work regularly has agreed to let me know some of the photos she thinks will suit the “gallery walls” I hope to have. Yesterday, before I shut down for the day, I uploaded the ones she suggested to the file that I have made to save them. I have five photos completed, she suggested five more. I am getting more and more eager to get them hung. There is a hang up there but there is an answer and it will come.

The word today is trust. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams. Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.  William Shakespeare. Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. Solon. As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Trust one who has gone through it. Virgil. I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions. Ann Radcliffe. All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices. Henry Ward Beecher. He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. Lao-tzu. For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. Aeschylus. Men trust their ears less than their eyes. Herodotus. Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow! [Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.] Horace. I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. Benjamin Disraeli. If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him. Thomas Fuller. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Trust not him that has once broken faith. William Shakespeare. Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Edmund Burke. Trust yourself, then you will know how to live. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, not even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau. When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. Thomas Jefferson. 

Article summary. As I was reading titles on the news site, I saw this one and wondered how the people you spent time with long before bed time would affect your sleep especially on an every day life cycle. So I decided to have a look. The title is “Want better sleep? Spend face to face time with your friends and family. Royette Tavernier, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Wesleyan University. At theconversation. The opening stated a bit of common sense that our relationships “may” determine how healthy we are. In a lot of circumstances that is true. Then the author decided to give it a bit more attention. He wondered how it would affect our sleep. Some research has been done in particularly to falling asleep and “daytime fatigue”. There is continued research on how the people we are with, friends and family, enter into the question of our sleep patterns. These particular studies were conducted with married couples in mind as well as another part of it considering teens. They found that the daily “availability” of their partner was on the list of what affects sleep. In college students “sense of security in relationships” seemed to play a part. One group tested found that those involved in social activities “had fewer sleep problems”.  This also adds to the ability to deal with stress. In the studies they measured the hours of sleep, falling asleep, and time asleep compared to just laying in bed. One test result showed youth fell asleep easier when they have been with friends but longer to fall asleep with time with longer with family. That could be due to family more tense with one another at time. The age brackets did play different rolls in the final results depending the age when more time is spent with friends. More time with friends in the younger led to better sleep.  Leading to the end of the article it is mentioned that sleep is linked to “mental and physical health issues, including depression and cardiovascular disease” mentioning that doctors may see these results. 

Maybe a taco pizza for dinner. 

Photos in my life today

The first challenge today is “favorite flower”. These are the favorite at the moment. It is part of the bouquet I had yesterday.

The next upload challenge is titled “sunset colors”. I haven’t seen extra special sunsets lately so this one is from my archives. 

The last challenge today is “my choice” and is one of my “in camera filter”. I
shot the photo then used an onboard camera filter. I used a Samsung 24+ camera. 

Joy

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