February 10, 2020 thought for the day: The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence but you still have to mow it. Traditional Proverb


Monday has come around again so the usual list in effect. Do you remember the poem “Wash on Monday, Iron on Tuesday, Bake on Wednesday, Brew on Thursday, Churn on Friday, Mend on Saturday, Go to meeting on Sunday”, I think I adopted that habit with a few modifications. I have a set to-do list most days particularly on Monday. I normally work on the church bulletin. Today was slightly askew in that respect. I got caught up in work on the church’s annual report.

February 9th photo title was “silence”. Here is another one that requires a feeling to be captured. I did a lot of thinking on this one. I finally decided to try to capture stillness which to me reflects silence. I asked my son to be my model.

I have restricted touch with two of my great grand babies. I have crocheted them some things and want to send it to them. Since Sue’s driving is at a stand still right now and she  needed to mail some things today I took her to the post office. Since I was there I picked up a box I need to send my package to the kids.

I need to do two photo shoots for photos-of-the day. So I will be taking a break from the computer to look around for the themes. After that, or maybe before that, I need to get the dishwasher unloaded and reloaded.

The word is doubt. When in doubt, lean to the side of  mercy, Miguel de Cervantes. That painter who has no doubts will achieve little, Leonardo da Vinci. To know much is often the cause of doubting more, Michel de Montaigne. Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty, Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect, Henry David Thoreau. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth, Peter Abelard.  How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer. Who knows most, doubts most, Robert Browning. Cleave ever to the sunnier side of doubt, Alfred Lord Tennyson. Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, John Henry Newman. Doubt follows white-winged hope with trembling steps, Honore de Balzac. To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair, Blaise Pascal. Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe, Henry David Thoreau. In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't, Blaise Pascal. Despair is the conclusion of fools, Benjamin Disraeli. There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope, George Eliot.   

The theme today is “writing”. I wonder if people write much anymore. With keyboards and printers and texting. I presumed it meant hand writing so I looked around for what I could find. There are a few folks who don’t use computers and texts and I found a slip of paper with just what I needed.

The article is about the changes going on in the Franklinton district. This is going to change the landscape in that area of town considerably. Any of us who use Broad Street as a main route of transportation will have much newness to see. I drove and parked in that area of town for fifteen plus years so it will be a big change for me. From what I have seen so far it is looking modern, new, clean and exciting. This article is telling about the second phase of the “Gravity’ development that is taking place there. It will include several buildings one of which will be a twelve story residential tower that will have a park and office space. One of the first “tenants” in part of the other new facilities will be an OhioHealth primary and urgent care center. This second phase, called Gravity II, will be bigger including buildings spanning an entire city block, West Broad to McDowell and W. State Street to the railroad tracks. Besides the twelve story building there will be a single story building, a five story apartment and town house project, a five story “co-live” apartment building that offer bedrooms that share kitchen and living spaces and a large parking garage. The Gravity project is eclectic architecture, events and street life. One person described the development as “a new city.”

This is one of the few days that I have a second photo of the day with another group. This theme is “books”. Here in lies another story. I don’t have a lot of books anymore. I still read  recreationally daily as well as for information and knowledge. Most of my “recreational” reading is through ebooks borrowed from the library and downloaded to my ipad. Educational and technical information, for me, is mostly gathered from the web. Anyway, I do have a few books that I have for specific uses.

I have fried rice frozen from a couple of weeks ago when I made it. That will be dinner tonight.

Joy