January 23, 2020 thought for the day: Injure others, injure yourself. Chinese Proverb

Yesterday I stopped at Westgate Park for some photos. Before I left the park, a car came around the curve in the parking lot and hit my car. It took quite a piece out of the right front fender including the turn signal fixture. The driver didn’t stop, just kept driving. I thought we were going to pull over to exchange information but that didn’t happen. I think we, my family, are in a bit of a problem-happening period in our lives right now. I hope it stops soon and there are no more serious outcomes.

The January 22 photo theme was “cold”. We don’t have any snow or ice right now, nothing much to show some as really cold expect for the dreary skies and gray clouds. I searched through my archives and came up with this one from a couple of winters ago.

Here it is again, that hustle bustle day of the week. I put the printing of the newsletter off until next week. So while I was at the church printing the bulletin, I called the ladies who help and let them know we were moving it to next week.

I had planned to stop at the store after the church but the furnace folks said they were coming by today for the annual check up. It’s now mid afternoon and they are not here yet.

I got the noodles and beef stock made and the laundry started. I looked around for the theme for today. The challenge is “beauty”. In this season there is not too much in the neighborhood that I call beauty unless you find the hidden beauty in a pile of fallen leaves or faded lawns and leafless tree branches. I settled on taking a shot of the pressure cooker since it is a beauty of a cooking utensil.

The word is direct. Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well, Therese of Lisieux.  Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous, Leonardo da Vinci. The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected, Francis Bacon. If it is the greatest truth that you seek, the plants can direct you, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I find the great thing in this world is, not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving,  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 

Today photo challenge is “beauty”. Much like yesterday, there isn’t much outdoors that show this precept. I was cooking dinner when I realized how “beautiful” it was to have a pressure cooker not only to help in the preparation of healthier food but with speed and ease. So that solved the photo topic.

According to the article I chose today the city and county are looking at a public park to build a new courthouse structure in 2022. I am inclined to think that more new construction of any kind means more aliveness in our city. I’m a little uncertain about this prospect. I think areas of greenery in public parks are important to city folks. I like the little bit of nature and areas to relax in fresh the air to be found there. I also like a little modern architecture in our city to show/prove that we keep up with growth and improvements.  I found in the article that the city and county had also considered an empty field but this area is now being considered for other development. 

I made some homemade egg noodles for the first time since I got my noodle maker out of storage. I also used the newly unpacked pressure cooker to make beef stock for the noodles.

Joy