Wow, what a day. I left early to do the bulletin printing. Being in the church was a little different today than it has been for the past few weeks. After I was there for a while, Dorothy came. It was so good to see her. I felt like I got to see another bit of my “family” for a one on one. She was there because there was going to be a food delivery for our up coming food pantry.
I just had to have my White Castle brunch after I dropped off the mail at the post office. Then I drove by the park as a “pick up for my soul”. Another highlight of this date, I was married sixty years ago today.
Yesterday’s photo title was “two things”. The “two things” most visible around my house are the two dogs. They are not usually as close together as they were for this photo but at least at the prescribed six feet apart.After I got home one of the Terminix people came to check the squirrel traps, none trapped yet. A little later another Terminix person came for the regular preventative spraying around the foundation of the house.
Still later my former niece-in-law called to get my input with working on getting the Facebook messenger video with my sister’s great grand daughters. After several attempts and failures, we got it to work on my cell phone. I handed it over to my sister so she could have a private chat with her twin great grand daughters, the first after almost two months.
During all of the above I got the laundry started. I also got a few more houseplants put outside. I started on that project yesterday. I will do a little each day until they are all out for the season.
The word is friendly. Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body, Joseph Addison. The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Christians appeal to those who wrong them and make them friendly to themselves; they are eager to do good to their enemies; they are mild and conciliatory, Aristides of Athens. Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse, George Washington. The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man, Ralph Waldo Emerson. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Is it not, then, better to be ridiculous and friendly than clever and hostile? Socrates. The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when you discover that someone else believes in you and is willing to trust you with a friendship, Ralph Waldo Emerson. But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine, Thomas Jefferson. Friends are relatives you make for yourself, Eustache Deschamps.
I also took a little time amongst the rest of the agenda as I do every day to search out and shoot my photo of the day. The title today is “in the kitchen”. Kitchens are big places with lots of doodads and objects. So here is my selection today.
It was interesting to see this article and for me to see what the library is doing as things begin to open. Apparently the Columbus Public Library is planning a curbside pick up similar to the grocery pickups. They are planning some form of the pick up process beginning in the last two weeks of May. Several of the branches of the library saw “dramatic” increase in checked out materials in March. Bexley is planning “the big return”. People can fill bins with return items. Then, for the safety of the staff, those items won’t be touched for several days. The article mentioned that Battelle is working on determining how long the virus can live on library materials.
I was surprised to see that the library foundation has joined with PCs for People to provide discounted computers and laptops to eligible families and students. With the library closed for this pandemic their computers, of course, have been unavailable to students and people looking for work or other necessities. Since the library is still closed for the time being, they want to “ensure access to technology” for people. Most of their equipment was used but no longer needed. The library also took part in the Giving Tuesday Now campaign on May 5. The PCs for People are one of the first groups to receive from the funds raised in that campaign. The article also listed that one of the top efforts of the library is to “bridge the (wide) digital divide” in the community. It is listed that for the computers to be eligible to the families they must be entitled to receive free/reduced school lunches or be in the SNAP or Medicaid programs. Curbside pickup for the computers will be Tuesday at the Whitehall branch.
It’s going to be sloppy joe and rice pilaf for dinner.
Joy
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