September 11,  2022

Reflection

HOT

The faucets handles are marked  H and C - red and blue - hot and cold.

Amazing.

The weather can't be turned on and off. We take what we get - or buy an air conditioner or a heater - or move to Maine or Florida - or Rio or Mount Pocono.

It's hot today - March 27, 2007 and it was very cold - freezing last Tuesday - at this same time.

March.  It's March madness.

Someone is hot and bothered - angry and burnt, furious and steaming.

So and so is cold!

Sometimes hot is negative - as in sweating - as in hot and bothered- as in angry and fuming.

Sometimes someone is cold - and it's a negative comment. Yet it could also be a compliment - as in calm, remaining cool and calculating - but it's usually negative - as in the newspaper description of the murderer - being a cold-blooded killer.

Notch it up a bit and cool is hot.

Hot seems better than cold when taking a shower. 

Plants grow better in warmer temperatures - than they do in the Artic and Siberian Tundra.

Hot is the place where they have more people. Compare India to the North of South Poles.

In the United States people drive south to Florida or Arizona for the winter.

Hot is where the birds are chirping - and eating juicy worms - yet  to present a curve here - there is the desert.

So hot cooks food and burns the meal. It  kills germs - helps form pottery. It also melts plastic and iron.

It's simple - but tricky. We 

And then we freeze our meats as well as  thaw them if we want to cook them .

It's all very interesting.

 September 11, 2022

Thought for Today

"A picture is something which requires as much knavery, trickery, and deceit as the perpetration of a crime. Paint falsely, and then add the accent of nature."

Edgar Degas [1834-1917]

Attributed

 September 10, 2022

Thought for Today

"There is nothing in Christianity or Buddhism that quite matches the sympathetic unselfishness of an oyster."

Saki,

Chronicles of Clovis [1912]

September 10, 2022

Reflection

COLD

Cold creeps - coming into an area - and one's toes feel it first - and continue to feel it.

Cold is quiet - invasive- pervasive - and doesn't just stick to hand surfaces. It penetrates hard surfaces - like green metal fences and black iron banisters.

Cold is hard - like ice  - freezing water, ponds, puddles, lakes. It freezes, thaws, re-freezes, cracking and crumbling rocks in its story.

Cold is the heart after another dumps us.

Cold is the mind after another gyps us or lies to us - or uses us.

The killer is described as cold hearted  - also the tax collector - as well as the church says "No!" to the beggar.

The judge, the principal, the truant officer, has to stay cool, neutral, like Jack Webb in Dragnet.  "Just the facts, mam. Just the facts."

Cold is a pause, a stepping back, a calming down - being cautious, stepping back from a situation to consider cause, concessions, compromise, calculating all comers, corners in a situation.

Cold turkey is stopping drinking or smoking or drugs, on the spot, not a slow stopping or turning off from...

To have a cold is to avoid contact with others - till one is better.

 September 9,  2022

Reflection

RAIN

It's raining.

Beads and bubbles of rain sitting on a newly washed and waked car.

The sound rain makes on street from tires going by this house.

Rain - the sound on sills and windows after the cars have disappeared.

Rain - nice if needed - not wanted this day because of this wedding this afternoon.

Rain - rare in Arizona - plentiful this day - in Maryland - this late March.

Rain - a bit damp - a bit cold - a bit uncomfortable - but we don't appreciate the coolness of rain - unless we want coolness and rain.

Rain - why this word - why the sound in this word.

"It's raining!"

"We need rain!"

"My roof is leaking. Enough with this rain."

Kids - little girls - boys sometimes too - loving rain - so they want to go outdoor with yellow plastic boots on and a chance to love the rain.

Window shield wipers getting a chance to show their necessity.

Rain ....

The rain of God - rhyming with "the reign of God". Is there any connection.

The two times - a week each time - I was in Arizona - hearing, "You have to be when it rains. The desert blooms when the rain falls."

It didn't happen when I was there.

Rain....

It's sunny today, March 19th, 2007.  Spring will be with us - in two days - and hopefully, busy April showers. as well.

Rain ....

September 9, 2022

Thought for Today 

"Someone's boring me, and I think it's me."

Attibuted to Dylan Thomas

BBC Radio, Quote Unquote June 21, 1980

 September 8, 2022

Reflection

THE  AFTERMATH OF CLARITY

After an argument there is clarity.

After an argument, hopefully, there is also charity - but here I'm talking about clarity.

How many times have we figured out what we should have said - or not said - but we're on our way home - after the argument.

If we are going to see the person or persons we were arguing with again - or if we are in the same home - bedroom - family table - workplace - club - as us - then we can say, "Oh I was thinking about the fight we had the other night, and it hit me afterwards, "I was wrong!" or "What I was trying to say was ...." or "My button was pushed and I apologize for losing it' or "I never did listen to your point."

After the argument there is clarity.

The fog lifts after the battle.

There is such a thing as Monday morning quarter-backing"

If - is a powerful concept.

Second thoughts are often better thoughts.

Yesterday, some ladies were pushing for doing more Divine Mercy stuff. It's not my cup of tea. They were pushing for the Divine Mercy rosary.  They were complaining that some churches didn't have statues. Some churches did not have the tabernacle behind the altar. Some people were not praying. Complaints. Complaints. Complaints.

Should I respond or remain quiet.

I blew it. I said something.

But on the way home I saw that I should have shut up.

It was then that I saw what I could have or should have said.

After the argument comes clarity.