November 4, 2026 a thought for today, The liar and thief are brothers. Welsh Proverb
Photos in my life yesterday
The first challenge was “a collection”. This is my house plant collection along with window boxes of miniature roses.
lilies from my most current bouquet for the focal point in this image.
Life today. It has been a good day even though it is cloudy and rainy. The problems I ran into a couple of days ago are emerging as a learning experience. A learning experience for me and one of my bad habits, my big mouth to be exact. I had reason to touch on the subject with someone I love. She brought to mind of how I might have inherited the habit. My father was a wise man and he didn’t hesitate to suggest to ones around him when they were being foolish or honestly not knowing what they were talking about (some later thanked him). He didn’t feel he had any friends due to that but when he passed away the funeral home visits were standing room only. We also talked about my mother’s habit of speaking her mind no matter the circumstance, some may call that honesty. She was never proven wrong, but I guess that is no excuse. Anyway with the talk with the person who loves me and my stubbornness recognized maybe that is a step in a positive direction. Only time will tell for the long run. The after affects of the original situation seem to be smoothing out.
The day has been productive. I have the newsletter ready for a test print tomorrow. I am expecting that after the “text print” there will still be some “clean up” work to do. My hope is that will only be clean up work and not a complete do over.
The day has been one that has allowed me to get some work done on most of the things on my “daily to-do check list”. I am still working on the Christmas calendars then paper quilled snow flakes, the snow flakes are a later in the evening project after my daily devotional readings. Then there is also getting a page done in the book I am working on which may or may not ever be finished let alone be published, but fun and entertaining in the way of memories for now.
A word to ponder today is expression. The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman. The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. Thomas Jefferson. Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language. Cicero. I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. Oscar Wilde. Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us. Chazal. Expression is the mystery of beauty. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets. Oscar Wilde. Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. Victor Hugo. Where painting is weakest, namely, in the expression of the highest moral and spiritual ideas, there music is sublimely strong. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Desire is possibility seeking expression. Ralph Waldo Emerson. It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend. Diogenes. Gracefulness has been defined to be the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul. William Hazlitt. Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility... It is the utmost expression of human passion. William Wordsworth. Expression… gives reality to things. Oscar Wilde.
Article summary. In our church we have a place in the service where we have a “passing of the peace”. We go around shaking hands with each other, with a warm greeting. During the pandemic we did a fist bump instead. For some reason I have stuck to that habit, the fist bump, reach out and touch method, with love and appreciation. There is a connection made during the “passing of the peace”. This article caught my attention. The title is Abraham Lincoln, Joe Biden and the politics of touch. Mark M. Smith Carolina Distinguished Professor of History, University of South Carolina. At theconversation.com. The author mentioned that since politics are in the forefront he wanted to look back on how “past politicians learned to use touch not to molest, intimidate or cow but to connect, engage and inspire”. He began the article with Abraham Lincoln’s handshaking, he saw this as a valued touch and social etiquette. The article mentioned that by the early 19th century handshaking seemed “democratic” and more toward the idea of equality. The author relates that Lincoln probably learned that “glad-handing” was a way to communicate as he was a “young traveling lawyer”. As it became more a politically positive being careful that it wasn’t taken as sending the wrong message”. There was an article written in 1870 about “Hand Shaking”. The article told of some of the ways to do the hand shake, refusing was a “declaration of hostility,” the pressure in the hand was to be considered. To tight indicated to much strength or “malicious intent”, but not allowing a “fair hold” was “odious”. In 1861 Mr. Lincoln had shaken so many hands that it left him with “hurt hands”. He finally decided to use both hands for a hand the shake. It is said that “Lincoln’s hands were imprinted with politics” key ideas were written on his skin. His hands were so shaky on the day that the Emancipation Proclamation was signed that his writing was “unsteady”. He was concerned what people would think but he said “I was never surer of anything in my life.” There is a cast of Lincoln’s hands that are “inscribed with history of handshaking”. The cast of his hands showed the swollen muscles. Mr. Lincoln “used touch to connect with voters” but he had “rules”, no hugging. The article ended with “appropriate touching plays an important role in American political culture (and, in my opinion not only the “political” culture)”.
I haven’t decided on what is for dinner yet. I will have to look around in the cupboard, freezer and frig.
Photos in my life today
My first assignment is “a lucky find”. It is a penny that I found on my black top driveway.
The next challenge is “movement”. I chose this one from my archives, it is a water wheel that was at the Ohio State Fair. The wheel was in very slow motion.
bouquet.
Joy
one of my Fine Art America contest uploads
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