June 22, 2026 a thought for today, What you give to a good friend is not lost. Polish Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first challenge was “farmers field”. I had to visit my photo archive for this one. I don’t travel into the country side very often anymore. This was along the route to Mt. Sterling Ohio.

The next assignment was “glimmer”. I chose to use a tree seedling
trying its best to survive between bricks and other weeds. 

The last upload for yesterday was “national selfie day”. That is the part of me that is (me and) my shadow.

Life today. So far this Monday has been productive. I worked on two pages of the July newsletter. The minister had sent me her message for the bulletin so I was able to get it finished and sent out for review. I had a Sunday School photo to format and upload today too. The kids have not been able to come to church for a while so it was good to have a message to put up today. I moved on to this letter and shot three if the photos I need for today. 

I have had a bit of temporary hold to putting the gallery photo up at my church. My help have had other obligations that need attention. Another of the draw backs have been the heat of the day. We don’t have air conditioning at church and with my having a bit of dehydration happening it hasn’t been perfect timing. Hopefully we will be able to get back to it soon. 

This is that week of the month that has an “agenda” attached to each day. It is hard to squeeze last minute things into any part of it. 

In the last couple of days I have learned two new things that have escaped my attention before. When I pulled up one of the web page I use on a regular basis today it came up with about a 150 percent larger than usual. It was interruptive so I did some research to see if I could correct it. I found that I can adjust a web page size by holding down the ctrl key and the plus or minus sign keys. 

The other thing is about facetime. I haven’t been able to set it up from my own tablet, I haven’t really taken the time to do it. My great granddaughter had a graduation party over the week end. I was unable to attend. But I wanted to just reach out and touch her at the party for just a few minutes. I tried setting up facetime with my daughter who was at the party. I couldn’t get it to work. I had her daughter’s (my grand daughter) page on my available list. So I was able to get through that way. Later I kept trying to set it up to reach my daughter. I found it was an easy fix. I apparently didn’t have her information typed into the right place in my tablet. It was in my phone but not the tablet that I use for facetime. I got it to work. Now I can facetime more family when things are going on and I can’t be there. 

The word today is affair.  In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. Nicholas Chamfort. Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them. Saint Basil. The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato. In all the affairs of life, social as well as political, courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest to the grateful and appreciating heart. Henry Clay. Everyone loves justice in the affairs of another. Italian Proverb. Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order. Seneca. Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs. Ralph Waldo Emerson. I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson. My grand affair appears settled, for America is certain of her independence, humanity has gained her cause, and liberty will never be without a place of refuge. Marquis de Lafayette. There is a tide in the affairs of men. William Shakespeare. Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome. Plautus. Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. Francesco Guicciardini. Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life. Plautus. He who can preserve gentleness amid pains, and peace amid worry multitude of affairs, is almost perfect. Saint Francis de Sales. I have sent that ye may know our affairs. Ephesians 6:21.

Article summary. I wonder if this could relate to other societies and forms of communication. It brings to light just how many hidden treasurers we may throw away. The title is How the loss of Native American languages affects our understanding of the natural world. Rosalyn R. LaPier, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Montana. At theconverarion.com/us. I never dreamed of such a thing, a whole language “ceasing to exist”. I ask myself, aren’t languages a part of history and isn’t history forever? This article began talking about the Native American people of Alaska. They began by saying between 1870s and 1930s the language and culture of these people were “suppressed”. Action was taken to stop this from happening with the “Native American Languages Act was passed in 1990". This act protected and preserved indigenous languages. As the article went on it says the language is on ‘the verge of extinction”. It continued to relate that “languages carry deep cultural knowledge and insights” and losing them would be a loss to “our understanding to the world”. Along with languages comes knowledge “about ecosystems, conservation methods, plant life, animal behavior and many other aspects of the natural world”. Moving on it mentions the same sort of historical and cultural habits of the Hawaiian people. Some of their habits faded with time but now the “old” language is important to find a way to protect certain parts of nature as it is today. Translations of the language can be difficult due to changes in the culture as it moves on in time. In one happening mentioned in the article a word used by one culture had a different meaning in another culture. The example used was the word “herb”. In English is means something connected with food, in Native American it meant a “a tool that doctors use.” The article says that in Native American communities of the United States there is a process in place to “save these cultural insights and revitalize their languages”. There is a school where students learn “the environmental knowledge embedded in the language”. The students “learn about indigenous knowledge of plants” by working with a learn is by doing and observing the natural world”. As I do in some of these articles I research something that connects to the topic. In this case I was thinking of how the Native American language may have saved uncountable lives during World War II in the form of “code talkers” using an unbreakable military code. Here’s something on that topic: The speed of these languages was highly critical; a code talker could encode, transmit, and decode a three-line message in just 20 seconds, whereas the mechanical encryption machines of the era took upwards of 30 minutes to process the exact same message.

I need to check the freezer for food I have prepare ahead to have on hand whenever I want it. I have forgotten much of what is in there.

Photos in my life today

The first upload for today is “glimmer”. This part of a 5-year-old birthday party. The whirligig danced in the wind. 

My next assignment was “my choice” and one of my series of “partial”. It is a one half of a miniature sunflower that was in my bouquet for this week. 

My last challenge for today is “j is for...”. I used a set of some of the candles
that I have on hand for this one.

Joy

the bonus image for today is a digital abstract that I generated from and image of yellow tape and orange barrels. I uploaded it to a Fine Art America contest. It is on some of the items on my page

want to shop? Visit: fineartamerica.com search for joy rector click on “view shop”  and redbubble.com search for jarector (and take a look at flickr.com search for rectorjoyce)