February 18, 2020 thought for the day: Look for the good in everything and you will find it. Traditional Proverb

Normally I set my alarm for morning a wake-up call. I have no good reason for doing that except that if I get up too late in the morning it feels like I have wasted time. Anyway, even though I didn’t set the alarm I was up and beginning the day just after seven o’clock.

The photo theme for yesterday was “leaf”. There aren’t any on the trees outdoors right now in my community. There are just a few leaves that fell on the ground in late autumn and early winter. The fallen ones that have become dried and wrinkled still have something to offer in form and shape. The process of time that follows a detachment adds a character. I have indoor plants with fresh growth that I could have captured but I chose to find one of the fallen.

The dogs are completely out of food so I planned on going to Kroger before pantry. I don’t want to do any major shopping but I had to at least get their food. I was going around nine but I got started on working on the newsletter and the bulletin. It was getting close to time to leave when I finally glanced at the clock. I wanted to have time to get the food and then to church and not be late.

At Kroger, I got a good parking place right off the bat. When I left there and since I hadn’t stopped to eat breakfast I was hungry. I saw that I had a few minutes before I would be late so I stopped at Wendy’s for a sandwich.

I picked up an additional item to put in the newsletter while I was at church. We had some time before clients came in so I managed to get it typed and saved to a flash drive. Now it is ready to be cut and pasted to the newsletter. Pastor Tom told me when I saw him today that he had just sent me his information for the newsletter too. It looks like I will be able to completely finish both articles tomorrow before going to food pantry again.

Today’s photo challenge is “show half”. That’s not too much of a problem it just takes camera position. Choosing what to show half of makes it a bit more of a task considering a pleasing image. I use my pets a lot as models because they have so much to offer photographically. So here is Sugar again with some of her furry attributes.


The word today is earth. Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children, Crazy Horse. The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself, Chief Seattle. Take away love and our earth is a tomb, Robert Browning. Your profession is not what brings home your paycheck. Your profession is what you were put on earth to do. With such passion and such intensity that it becomes spiritual in calling,  Virgil.  Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal, Thomas More. As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives, Henry David Thoreau. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Earth's crammed with Heaven, Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Equality may be a right, but no power on earth can convert it into fact, Honore de Balzac.   

There seem to be a lot of newness going on in and around Columbus. That’s great. I am always glad to see the cleanness of new things. Hopefully, too, there may be some revitalization of older architecture that may be in the neighborhood. I like that outlook toward growth too. The article to day is about the Grandview Crossing revitalization and growth that has been going on in that area of town. The project will continue with the start of construction on sixteen of the twenty-six buildings planned on the north side of Dublin Road near Grandview Avenue. Plans for this former landfill have been in the works for twenty years. After the project is completed there will be offices, shops, restaurants, apartments, a senior center and a hotel. Apparently things got slowed down on an earlier attempt to get started because of some pollution at the site. That has been corrected. The plan is to have people living and working there by mid 2021.

I am fixing baked spaghetti for dinner from the left over spaghetti and meatballs that I made last night.

Joy