June 25, 2020 thought for the day: There are three truths my truth, your truth, and the truth. Traditional Proverb

After an early morning check up at the doctor I took the kids out to breakfast at Bob Evans. Then we made a short shopping trip to Home Depot and then General Dollar and finally home. The kids each bought a blooming plant for one of their grandmas.

I was able to get to some watering and the laundry before other "adventures" came into the picture. That happens with eight year old kids are in close vicinity. .

The photo challenge for yesterday was “X”. In our choir room at church we have many kinds of musical paraphernalia. We had tambourines, drums, sand blocks, a triangle, maracas and more.  Since I was at church working on at the copier, I made a trip to the choir room and found this child’s xylophone.

The sun is out nice and bright so I couldn’t let the plant go another day without water.

The bumper on my car was damaged a couple of months ago. I haven’t had it attended to yet so it was becoming looser and needed a band-aid type fix. For the temporary fix I had to pick up some things at Home Depot, it’s a sort of bubble gum and glue kind of fix. Now I have to spend some time on that.

The word today is ignorance. Fear always springs from ignorance, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. It is a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon, John Lyly.  If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy? Thomas Jefferson.  Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star, Confucius. Through ignorance of what is good and what is bad, the life of men is greatly perplexed, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude, Mencius. Ignorance is the womb of monsters, Henry Ward Beecher. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance, Confucius. Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down, George Eliot. Ignorant men differ from beasts only in their figure, Cleanthes. By ignorance the truth is known, Henry Suso. Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error, Marcus Tullius Cicero.  How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time, Henry David Thoreau. 

When I was in a parking lot waiting for my sister, I saw this concrete block holding up a traffic sign. The bright yellow color fit the photo theme for the day, “Y”. I also noticed the texture in the concrete. I thought that was an added artistic point.

Here is an article about some more renovating taking part in the city. This is the first that I have noticed a phrase “pedestrian-focused street”. So the article title seemed to suggest something of interest. There is a relatively new area of Columbus along the Scioto River downtown called the Scioto Peninsula. A new “private street” will be funded by a community authority, it has been designed to be closed regularly to vehicular traffic”. This street is three blocks long and not connected to either West Broad Street or West Town Street. Ludlow Alley in the Arena District is an existing street similar to this one. Emergency equipment does have access to this street. A person interviewed for the article said “...we want this to have a distinct personality to it.” The street will be called “High Water Alley” in recollection of the 1913 flood. There are two six-level garages for parking available to all the facilities in the area. They are situated in a design to help facilitate less traffic in that specific area. It is hoped that all of these plans will bring more of an “artistic element” to the State Street facades.

Since the twins are still here, we will have mac and cheese and chicken fries for dinner.

Joy