October 16, 2026 a thought for today, Conscience is the nest where all good is hatched. Welsh Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

The first challenge for yesterday was “o is for...” . I  used he oven know for this image.

The next assignment was “my choice”, one of my series of “black and white”.
This one is of some of the trees in the neighborhood park. 

The last upload was “dishes”. This is my cupboard shelf of my mismatched dishes “formal” dishes.

Life today. It isn’t quite the Friday I was planning but it has been a successful one nonetheless. Sue had a doctors  appointment and I got the feeling she would rather not have gone alone. From our past she has always been the “strong” one in the kind of thing “doing it for yourself” kind of way. On the other side of the coin I prefer to have someone with me, an advocate and companion. We are complete opposites in many areas.  Anyway, I said would you like for me to go with you, she said she didn’t want to have me have to just sit there for an hour or so. I decided I would go with her. So we spend most of the morning on that event. 

As soon as we got home it was back to the computer. I got the letter started in really good time. Most of today’s photos are from the archives to save time. I did have to take a break to get the laundry started. It slipped my mind yesterday. I usually do it on a Thursday so I can get Friday to be completely free and easy.  

The weather is not so bad today though the temperatures are taking a pretty noticeable drop with even more in that trend tomorrow.  

The word to ponder today is endure.  Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it. Arthur Schopenhauer. We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. Nothing endures but personal qualities. Walt Whitman. Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life. James, Chapter 1, Verse 12. He that can heroically endure adversity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of the soul; for the mind that cannot be dejected by the former is not likely to be transported without the latter. Henry Fielding. Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus. He conquers who endures. Persius. A father may turn his back on his child, … . but a mother's love endures through all. Washington Irving. He that can't endure the bad will not live to see the good. Yiddish Proverb. I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air. Nathaniel Hawthorne. In time the unmanageable young oxen come to the plough; in time the horses are taught to endure the restraining bit.  Ovid. The foremost art of Kings is the power to endure hatred. Seneca the Younger. A good disposition is a virtue in itself, and it is lasting; the burden of the years cannot depress it, and love that is founded on it endures to the end. Ovid. Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.  Friedrich Schiller. He who has a why to live can bear almost any how. Friedrich Nietzsche.

Article summary. I don’t like to get into deeply religious subject and politics, they a are both very personal thoughts and opinions. This title sounded a little on the softer and more social and emotional side. The title is Gut wrenching love: What a fresh look at the ‘Good Samaritan’ story says for ethics today. Meghan Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy, University of Notre Dame. At the conversation.com. In opening this article the author states that the Good Samaritan from the Bible was someone who stopped to help one who needed it along the way. She says is goes deeper as in loving others and being connected. The article goes on to explain the full parable. She related to the fact the the Samaritan’s feelings at the moment of seeing the injured man left alone to suffer, in my way of saying it, “tore at his heart” or in hers “guts churned”. When he saw the man his feeling as in other  occurrences of this kind in other places in the Bible “evoked” a  physical kind of emotional and spontaneous response. In history Plato and Socrates names come up in the subject of love. Aristotle’s response to friendships came up into “his teachings about ethics”. His idea was that we may think of others as our “second self”. Saint Augustine’s concepts were also brought up on the subject of love. He evoked a kind of “order of loved”, first to God, then to organize in a way that shows “their loves to serve this highest love”. This kind of love is an emotion that “can be triggered by anyone, at any time”. In modern thinking how can love be of “morally significant elements” while at the same time be “partial, biased and seemingly arbitrary”. Thoughts on the subject touched on ethics as a “rational efficiency” and people should be the “most efficient do-gooders”. It continues as saying emotions can be seen as a  source of suspicion not of “moral wisdom”. In the story of the Good Samaritan the ethics were “deeply personal” and as in “almost absurdly inefficient matter”. The Samaritan cared for the injured man directly “almost as a family member”. As the article moved on it mentions the idea of loving ones neighbors, fellow “countrymen” and strangers coming into the community. The author says that“the gut-wrenching kind” of love may indicate that is to progress through emotions “rather that around them”. In coming to an end of the article the author says that helping to “recognize and cultivate emotions, especially loving compassion” is an important lesson in her teaching for her students. She gently touched on the subject of Samaritan and political issues today to bring attention on the capacity to love “beyond the limits of familiar relationships” and “how much is lost when we do not.” 

Photos in my life today

My first assignment today is “p is for....”, pencils. This is a collection of my colored pencils. I used them during my calligraphy period.

The next challenge is another of “my choice” and another of my series of “black and white”. It is of a neighbors house. She had a pumpkin set out for Halloween.  

The last upload is “orange”. What better than the ever present orange barrels for this one.

I didn’t have spaghetti the other day when it sounded good I’ll try again tonight.

Joy

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