November 8, 2026 a thought for today, Better a patch than a hole. Welsh Proverb

Photos in my life yesterday

My first challenge was “something gold”. I found one of the fallen leaves that had a little more gold to it than some of the others.

The next assignment was “my choice” and one of my series of “still life”.  I arranged the pear on a small cutting board all on a draped white cloth. 

The last upload for yesterday was “wildlife”. I was able to capture this bird as he was poised on the handlers gloved hand. 

Life today. It has been a good Sunday. I had a early progressive and forward thinking talk with my daughter. I was taken to lunch by my son and along with a good friend where we had a good study of Christianity along with the meal. The message at church was given by a beautiful person, one knowledgeable of the Word, and one of my favorite people. We also enjoyed a the monthly donut fellowship hour after service. 

My sister has a bit of news about her health that is going to take everyday considerations, along with to keep going on with helpful medications and regular doctor’s visits. She is being given a Chance to help herself. She can be and should be fine for her age.

I do a lot of research for this letter and other “notions” that come to mind. (My father always told me, “ask me a question, if I don’t know the answer I will know where to find it”). I have learned things that I thought were not always what I had come to see as I was growing up and so have kept as my guide to living a good life. I call that kind of learning, research, and changing anything but closed mindedness and stubbornness. It also reduces the temptation to tell an untruth or to be self absorbed (jealous).

I got most of my personal daily visits and chores done before I left for church. I didn’t get much done on the “daily check list” after all, it is Sunday, a day to refresh, renew, revisit and restore any positive outlooks 

The word offered to ponder today is face.  There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. A smiling face is half the meal. Latvian Proverb. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. Saint Jerome. God give me strength to face a fact though it slay me. Thomas H. Huxley. You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey. What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face? Ann Radcliffe. Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. James Russell Lowell. He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face. Benjamin Franklin. O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple. William Shakespeare. No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true. Nathaniel Hawthorne. For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was. Bible, James 1: 23-24. Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Thomas Fuller. 

Article summary. When I saw the title it brought to mind what I have been thinking for a while, I liken fire to AI. We will have to see where it goes, with care I hope. The title is Human use of fire has produced an era of uncontrolled burning: Welcome to the Pyrocene. Stephen Pyne, Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University. At theconversation.com. It begins by mentioning how there have many many fires in the word recently leaving destruction and smoke in the air. It goes on to say that the use of fire has become like a sign that we may are “creating the fire equivalent of an ice age.” It says that since the ice age the landscape is more “fire-receptive”. There have been studies on how it might be possible to control things better. The change in atmosphere has added to the problem. It is mentioned that “transition to fossil-fuel”affected things, how cities are designed, landscapes with agriculture and preserves, generating energy all are parts of the situation. Two areas of concern are fires in the landscapes and fires the “burn lithic landscapes”. The article makes the comment that “it is like a driverless car that barrels down the road” contacting whatever is around it. Another comment is “climate change acts as a performance enhancer”, both brought on by a “conversion to a fossil-fuel society”. So the use of fire seems out of the control beyond  it’s benefits. That’s how I see the use of IA could move in history. We need the good not the dangerous sides of it. 

Dinner will be on the snack side of things since I had a delicious and happy lunch.

Photos in my life today

The first challenge today is “not my house”.  I liked the neighgor’s bird house as my choice for this one. 

The next assignment was “my choice” and is one of my series of “black and white”. This is one of my last weeping fig plants. 

The last upload was “triangle”. I felt the legs of my tripod were a perfect
triangle. 

Joy

todays upload to Fine Art America is another of my black and white images. My dining room table, with bowls and a book with a few of my family photos in the back ground

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