November 6, 2026 a thought for today, One sin draws a hundred after it. Welsh Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday 

The first challenge was “l is for....”. I chose an image of a leaf that had fallen under the door at front of the garage. 

The next assignment was “a liquid”. I decided to use a bottle of handsensitizer for my sample of a liquid. 

The last upload was “a penny for guy”. I decided to use a candle to represent the “bond fire” and a pile of pennies to represent the collection of pennies. Penny for the guy refers to a traditional British custom associated with Guy Fawkes Night (Bonfire Night) on November 5

Life today. This has been a Friday that I have needed for a while now. It has been quiet even giving me time to day dream and to meditate on my life’s accomplishments made and the path to come. My three biggest accomplishments are three absolutely perfect, as perfect as the best in a humans can be. I am so proud I was chosen to be their mother. One of them is in heaven now the other two are continuing to contribute to the happiness of others. I am also happy with my place in Christian circles and activities. So it’s been a good feeling day.

I’m still anxious about how the church newsletter is coming along. I have it at the “draft” point. To move it along any further I need to get some articles to add. A very good member of my church family has taken it upon herself to ask people of our church who could possibly have information to share to send it to me for entry in the upcoming issue. So I am waiting for that and the time when I can try some printing issues. I have been doing some research on the subject and have been enlightened with what I have learned. I think my everyday research for these letters and questions that pop into my head lead to being as open minded as I can be.

The autumn leaves are covering the ground leaving the trees to begin their winter rest. The bare branches give a different look to the world. 

The word offered to ponder today is eye. Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome. Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say. Charles Caleb Colton. For visions come not to polluted eyes. Mary Howitt. What you don't see with your eyes, don't invent with your mouth. Jewish Proverb. When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears. Czech Proverb. One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy. Jane Austen. Men judge generally more by the eye than by the hand, for everyone can see and few can feel. Every one sees what you appear to be, few really know what you are. Niccolo Machiavelli. All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. Thomas Carlyle. With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens. History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology. James A. Garfield. All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. Cicero. A friend's eye is a good mirror. Celtic Proverb. Eyes that see do not grow old. Nicaraguan Proverb. One may have good eyes and yet see nothing. Italian Proverb. The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing. Publilius Syrus. If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow. Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Article summary: I like writing as I have mentioned before, this is another article that may also be of interest to some that are interested in “supporting” their memory in a writing habit as life moves on. I like putting the word to ponder in each letter to more or less act as a kind of Easter egg although it is not a hidden message only one to think about. I also wanted to see this author’s idea of how it helps memory. The title is Note taking by hand: A powerful tool to support memory. Hetty Roessingh, Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary. At theconversation.com. It opened by suggesting how starting a hand written note you are “supporting” the “retrieval of information (memory)” while also creating an “external memory storage”. This author believes that taking notes is a “cognitive tool” and persons can begin as early as the third grade. It goes on to say that digital communication has its place and is an “important skill” too but “keyboarding” doesn’t offer the same “feedback” as hand writing. Some of that difference is that hand writing leads to “manipulating and transforming information that leads to deeper understanding”. Second grade students pick up the habit of using the hands that leads to the memory of that action and  “to the cognitive demands of note-taking”. The article goes on to say that sketching and drawing are also tools too. It mentions that Leonardo da Vinci is quoted as saying “…the more minutely you describe” meaning that it mayt be more likely to move off the subject so “it is necessary to “make a drawing … as well as to describe …”. When da Vinci’s statement was studied it was determined that his inventive mind led to three levels of “information processing”, possibly by going from to the start of note taking to the final written note. The article mentions Florence Nightingale’s “meticulous observations, documentation, note-taking and writing”. No matter the occupation you choose you may see “the benefits and importance of note-taking and sketching”. When the digital form of communication is compared it is important to consider that “hand-written notes matter and endure over time”. Much of what is hand written can then be shared digitally. It ends by saying that “note-taking is an indispensable cognitive tool and study technique” in creating “memory and meaning through the hand-brain complex is the key to understanding the value of hand-written notes”.

I think it will be another DoorDash pizza tonight for dinner

Photos in my life today

My first assignment is “fence”. Since I didn’t go out today I used an image of a fence from my archives. 

The second challenge is “sunset”. I used one from the archives again. I am not generally out and about at sunset anymore. 

The last upload is “street photograph”. Most time I think “street
photography” included a human. I used these orange safety cones for my upload instead. I felt it implied what most humans are experiencing in the time of ongoing maintenance  on the streets. 

Joy

my upload to Fine Art America for today. An abstract generated from a photo image of a red stick candle in a clear glass candle holder

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