June 17, 2020 thought for the day:   If you wish to know what a man is, place him in authority. Yugoslavian Proverb

I went though the regular virtual checks this morning before Sue and I got ready to make a trip to Kroger. We are going to get the twins for an over night tomorrow night and needed to get some of their favorite foods.

When we got home, I got some watering done. It looks like it is going to be hot this afternoon. I also needed to do a little transplanting.

Of course with all the other multitasking I had on the agenda yesterday I searched for a photo to fit the challenge of “P”. I shot some of pens, one set of photos of a piggy bank and a few of the one I finally chose. This plant stood out against the fence and fit the theme.

Then I was able to take care of a couple of church related issues. I also want to start a couple of areas of “gallery” walls in the house. So I took some beginning steps in that direction.

Yesterday was a beautiful day. Mainly because I got to spend a couple of hours of it with my son and daughter-in-law at a place familiar to me from my time working in the down town arena. That place is Tommy’s Diner. Just being with family was enough to make my heart warm, visiting something familiar once again just topped it off.

The word is hope.  Hope springs eternal, Alexander Pope. Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly, Benjamin Franklin. Out of difficulties grow miracles, Jean de la Bruyere. The darkest day, if you live till tomorrow, will have passed away, William Cowper.  Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be, Ralph Waldo Emerson. You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment, Henry David Thoreau. We never know how high we are till we are called to rise. Then if we are true to form our statures touch the skies, Emily Dickinson. Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them become what they are capable of being, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings, Ralph Waldo Emerson. One's thoughts turn towards Hope, Leonardo da Vinci. A helping word to one in trouble is often like a switch on a railroad track-an inch between wreck and smooth-rolling prosperity, Henry Ward Beecher. Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  If you do not hope, you will not win that which is not hoped for, since it is unattainable and inaccessible, Heraclitus.  Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 


The theme today is “Q”. Now that one doesn’t leave much wiggle room. I couldn’t find too many objects beginning with Q were readily available to create a photo.

The statue is coming down....so I don’t understand why vandalism at this point? It will no longer be “hurting” anyone. This has been my confusion in so many of the leavings of these recent, and past for that matter, demonstrations. Why? There ‘s been an apparent answer to the demanded?  This article explains that the 20-ton statue is going to be moved to storage. Someone spent part of their life building that statue. It would be yet another form of disrespect to just junk it. I don’t know the nationality or color of the person who created it but it meant something to them. I didn’t relate in my studies of Christopher Columbus that there was a brutal side to the man. I just gathered that he was an adventurer and loved to travel and discover while living his life in the manner of that time in history. The statue and it’s presentation cost the college well over $50,000. The marble that it was carved from came from Italy, it’s destruction yet another disrespect being one to that country. The article stated that it will take some time to dismantle and remove it. One of the professors at Columbus State related the statue was described “as a celebration of exploration and the never-ending desire to become what we had yet to become” at the faculty orientation nearly 25 years ago. So this has given me the feeling that I need to revisit the study of the history of that time again and it’s significance through the years.

It’s going to be taco salad for dinner tonight.

Joy