Just A Thought

 As human beings we often don’t appreciate all of our opportunities for learning until they have already passed us by.  It seems ironic that we require hindsight to be able to experience the right appreciation for things.  It seems that life is not designed with ease of experience in mind.  It is like we are all pioneers having to blaze our own trails for ourselves in order to better understand who we want to be, what we want to be capable of, where we want to go and how we should get there. Wow, that had a negative tone didn’t it?  Maybe a better attitude is that we can learn to appreciate and embrace all of life’s opportunities for learning.  Maybe we can learn to have eyes and ears and minds that can receive helpful messages in a more timely manner.

 It is usually not until a person becomes personally affected by something that they can learn and truly understand what the experiences and realities are like for others.  Unless maybe people are willing to really listen to others. 

I wish my phone camera could capture what I can now see with my solar eclipse glasses.  The sun looks like a thin crescent but nonetheless it still casts enough light here to make the daylight seem pretty close to normal.  Thirteen minutes to go until it reaches its’ peak at this location. The sun is a little crescent moon but even so, there is no lack of daylight.  You have to visit and an eclipse path of totality to witness the day become night.  In a path of totality it doesn’t get completely dark.  You can still see clouds and it looks just like the night sky if you live in a more city like area where there is artificial lighting outside during the night that keeps the sky a little illuminated.  Oops, I’ve been looking up without glasses.  We have had a lot of clouds but I managed to take some pictures through my solar glasses during the breaks from clouds and even when it was shining through the clouds.  I even managed to get a couple that came out well without the eclipse glasses

 “These are not savages.  These are intelligent men no different than ourselves.”  This would be a revelation of a 17th century man ahead of his time in his capacity to recognize the humanity and intelligence of those regarded as inferior others.  He would of course have needed to have had some kind of personal experience or connection with the Native Americans,  It is really unfortunate that such an idea was so lacking through so much of American history and is still not completely a thing of the past, to this very day, even if others aren’t regarded as wild savages. I just the other day watched another program about 17 century pre American life in colonial America.  I guess this is what has me thinking about 17th century minds.

 I have a real talent for putting down and then not being able to find pairs of glasses.  Right now my reading glasses have seemingly vanished. 😧 It’s a good thing that my eyes are stuck in my head or I would surely lose them in the dark! 😱 I found them on the floor in the morning and I never even heard them drop probably because I had headphones in my ears. 

Today is solar eclipse day.  We won’t be within the path of annularity, in my part of Texas, so we won’t see the ring of fire but we are pretty close, so we will experience a good partial eclipse.  I traveled to Colombia Missouri in 2017 to be in the eclipse path of totality, and I hope to travel to another part of Texas next April, to be in a total eclipse path of totality one more time.  🌕🌑 😄

  The mystery of tuna fish.  How is it that this fish that is sold in cans has the quality of being something other than fish?  You add some mayonnaise and celery and seasonings of one’s choice and presto, it’s not fish.  Or rather, I just don’t think I’m eating fish.  #tunaisdifferent

  I could never get myself to like canned grapefruit when I was younger.  Now I’m attached to it and always want to have a can on hand.  Even better is Del Monte Citrus Salad but that is a more rare find here.  I of course have to add a little sugar or Splenda. 😋

 We concern ourselves with the opinions that we think others might have about us, when in reality they care far less about whatever opinions they have of us than we do.  Who we ourselves are and what we ourselves are doing in our lives, is what most people are primarily concerned about. 

 Imagine how much insight and greater understanding we would have of other people if we knew all the stories of their lives.  Or at least the more significant ones.  How eye opening it would be to not have illusions about the seeming easy and uncomplicated lives of others.  Life stories always have more depth than what those not quite close enough can see.  It makes me think about social media.  People have shared their understanding about it and how it makes (perhaps to young people in particular) it appear that others are living less stressful and more amazing lives because they are just showing a glamorous appearing edited version of their lives.  In reality people all live lives complete with their own unique challenges and complexities of human existence.

 It’s the part of America where Americans must remain until they pass through a checkpoint and are granted permission to enter the rest of America.

Cape Cod is a peninsula island that has its own unique natural environment that has a feeling of sea proximity, sand, salt, surf, seagulls, sea grass, seaweed, sand dunes, sunshine, sea tides, sea air, sea shells, sand dollars, lighthouses, buoys, New England fisherman and seafood.  I don’t really know anything about writing odes 😂 but that is my personal description of and feeling about Cape Cod.  Appreciating Cape Cod is to have appreciation and love for the combination of all of these things. #undertheinfluenceofthriftstoretreasures I’d have to say that the squawking of seagulls and other New England seashore birds is what gives Cape Cod its’ distinctive sound environment.  Along with ocean waves at the coast of course. #birdsareimpotant Birds are an important part of the beauty of our planet.  I can’t imagine a world without birds in the sky.  I suppose this is because we human beings already have an attachment to their existence.  Something would definitely be missing if suddenly

Okay, I’m a little late but this is my treasure hunting tale from last week.  I had an appointment on one day and errands to do on the other so I ended up visiting my favorite thrift stores in search of treasure.  I even added an extra day. 😲 Well it turns out that last week held an abundance of treasure.   What are the odds at the bottom of Texas of finding two mugs and two shot glasses with each pair having one of Cape Cod and the other of Boston.  I swear I didn’t already have any of them.  I found all of them last week during my last thrift store visits.   My mother had this Christmas album and I played it when I was young.  The album I found was in excellent condition with no scratches. There was also just a ton of stuff that held special appeal to me.  I had to make choices. 😄 I love angels.  A trio is even better.  So many great things. There may have been a few more not pictured here. 😄 #youhadyourfunnowenjoythetreasuresyoualreadyhave I think I like the album the best.  Chri

 Maybe there are gray areas between the two where the hues of each mix to create a beautiful story of mutual respect and validity.  Yes I know, this idea is blasphemy to science and could be interpreted as magical thinking.  But it is also true sometimes that experiencing something is a valid place for logical thought and understanding.  Sometimes we don’t need to understand or know everything.  We just need to trust what we understand and build our own intelligent understanding and knowledge from there.  Intangible and experiential evidence has validity also. I know this is very anti Dawkins but I actually did really appreciate his rationale and understanding that you can’t seize upon gaps of knowledge and magically fill in the spaces with magical thinking and beliefs that require no actual tangible evidence or demonstrate-able understanding.  Who could argue with that.  We can’t use a gap in knowledge as a proof of an unscientific belief.  We can though use our own personal experienc

 It would be an amazing, time saving, money saving, and stress reducing trend for humans if wearing naturally wrinkled clothing came to be in vogue.  I mean who really is to say that pressed is best.  It’s an indoctrinated preference and ideal.  I’m sure humanity could survive just fine if such a notion was abandoned and people carried on with business in whatever state of wrinkling their clothes might find themselves.  #wrinklesarepartoflife  #clothesareclothes  #ropa

 Our photos stored in our phones are the property of ourselves and whatever technologies are sophisticated enough to be able to access our phone’s data and preserve that data outside of our phones regardless of whether we ourselves have opted to have our photos uploaded to any kind of cloud storage.

 

 Go Daughter’s of the American Revolution!  DAR is moving to its’ own communities site.  They already have their own organization site, but the new site is for the communication and messaging of groups.  The site itself is already up and running.  I haven’t checked it out yet myself.  All the DAR groups on Facebook will be migrating over to the DAR’s own communities site.  I found out that this is not going to extend to state and local level groups because there are just too many.  Bah humbug. 🙁 I don’t want to use Facebook. 

 Mine has been broken for quite some time now. 🫤 We are going to replace our sink also before we replace the dishwasher when we actually get around to it.  I have been washing dishes the old fashioned way.  I have to have a dishpan full of hot soapy water to wash the dishes in.  I even have one with clean water for rinsing the dishes.  I don’t know how people can stand to just wash dishes without a dish pan. 😲😩 (I have my reasons why these things are difficult for me.)

 Spinach on sandwiches is very good and it comes pre washed  and ready to eat!  Popeye would approve.