Monday, June 22, 2020

June 21, 2020 thought for the day: Only when you have eaten a lemon do you appreciate what sugar is. Ukranian Proverb

One of the dogs wasn’t feeling well last night so she had me up twice throughout the night. When she wanted out about six o’clock, I decided to go ahead and get up for the day.  At least that let me get a good start on the virtual visits.

I left for church and as usual I was half hour or so early. That gave me a chance to talk to some of the other folks.

The challenge for yesterday was “T”. After several attempts I chose a table cloth I have been crocheting now and then for several months.

Through the process of changing times like through the pandemic and the current protests and riots we learn. Sometimes it’s a hard and an extreme way and maybe not so necessary for damage and injury to come with it but if nothing else it causes an education and a building block to wisdom. That, the wisdom,  part I honor and cherish. I am one of the persons who do not like change, I am a creature of habit. However, at the same time, I am relatively intelligent and experienced enough in years to know change is inevitable. Most of the times, which are many in an eighty-year period, that change has taken place in my life I have been surprised that the change was good and brought new and exciting ways and things to experience.

We are going to lunch/dinner with Lowell, Rebecca, Louann, Mick and Kim and my sweet great grand baby, William. We will be celebrating William’s dad’s first father’s day and his grandpas, grand dad’s day. In the mean time I am going to get the watering done. The sun is bright and hot.

The word today is humility.  History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions, Thomas Huxley. Nothing can be further apart than true humility and servility, Henry Ward Beecher. Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason, Francis Quarles. Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every conceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing, Thomas Huxley. And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility, 
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over others, Francois de La Rochefoucauld. ALL things in Nature work silently. They come into being and possess nothing. They fulfil their functions and make no claim, Laozi. Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew, Saint Francis de Sales. How could I bear a crown of gold when the Lord bears a crown of thorns? And bears it for me! Elizabeth of Hungary. Humility is the only thing that no devil can imitate, John Climacus.  Humility is the light of understanding, John Bunyan


Today’s theme was “U”. There weren’t to many readily available choices for that letter. I settled for our backyard umbrella for the subject.

I don’t normally like to get in discussions about politics but this man’s life gives pause for thought. This is a very long article so I will only touch certain points here. If you want to read more it is in the Dispatch at https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200621/dewine-on-leading- ohio-during- pandemic-protests-lsquothis-is-what-i-signed-up-forrsquo. This article is about Mr. DeWines time in politics along with the ups and downs of the pressures of the pandemic and the demonstrations and riots. It has been a tumultuous period of time. In watching him on TV it seemed to me that he was interested in Ohio to the point of wearing pieces of clothing to represent sports and such that are popular in our state. He also often mentioned his wife and family. He had his wife on with him at time to tell things she did during the pandemic.  It just gave me a feeling that he was genuinely concerned about all of it we as citizens along with devotion to his family. As is true of the lives of most politicians there were a lot of conflicting opinions on many of his decisions and actions that he took. He endorsed President Trumps on many issues. I think the parts that grabbed my attention was the way he spoke of his relationships with his grandchildren and the talking with his wife and the long walks on his farm with his dog. During the interview for this article he mentioned many of the messages he got for and against his decisions on shutting down businesses and instituting the stay at home theory. He seems sad about the many people who have lost their jobs and the many other negative things this has all had on our state. He talked about how the reopening has to be handled safely and slowly with how much the economy is being affected. He stated how some of the letters of complaint have disturbed him. On top of all of that there is the social protests that have risen in the midst of the pandemic. How the mayors of some of the Ohio cities have requested the Ohio National Guard to calm the riots that have risen out of the marches. He spoke of the difficulty of balancing the rights of the protesters and the safety of the police and bystanders. He spoke of how he put a lot of thought into choosing his advisors on all of these related problems hoping to take the right actions for all concerned. He mentioned that he has more women as  advisers than men and a “significant number of African Americans. When asked he stated that there are mostly racists in every profession.  He was asked about his thoughts on many of  President Trump’s actions. He said my job is to lead Ohio, a diverse state. And that he tries to bring them all together. He was asked if he has gotten emotional during all of this, his response was “You can’t go through this without seeing the impact of all these decisions we are making or having on people”

We are going out for dinner for fathers day.

Joy

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