July 23, 2020 thought for the day:  With money you would not know yourself, without money nobody would know you. Spanish Proverb

This has been a bit of a busier Thursday than is usual. I had three different projects to print for today. I got the sheet to be passed out with the free meal done first. I moved on to the bulletin and then tackled the newsletter. I brought some of it home to fold, seal, label, and stamps done here, along with the stuffing the envelopes with the message sheet. 

Yesterday’s photo challenge was “every day”. So I figured it should be something I would see every day, which would be something relatively permanent at least for the season. Sue has a fire pit set up in the back yard for the twins to roast hot dogs and marshmallows. 

When I got home, I started on the house work by clearing the frig and unloading/loading the dish washer. Moving on....the laundry was started.....to be continued to the end of the day. Finally, back to some of the folding and finishing touched on the work I brought home. 

I wanted to get an early start on dinner so after a quick lunch of tuna salad sandwich and cheeseits I started the meatloaf. After putting that in the oven and put potatoes on to cook I finally back to the computer. 

The word is inward. A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him, Soren Kierkegaard. Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances, Benjamin Franklin. A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind, Thomas Carlyle. The outward work will never be puny if the inward work is great, Meister Eckhart.  Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never, Theodore Parker. No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves, Frederick William Robertson. As we grow old, the beauty steals inward, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Quietude, which some men cannot abide because it reveals their inward poverty, is as a palace of cedar to the wise, for along its hallowed courts the King in his beauty deigns to walk, Charles Spurgeon. To live happily is an inward power of the soul, Marcus Aurelius. Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are, Edwin Hubbel Chapin. I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable, Saint Augustine. I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key of that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourself, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Today’s photo challenge is “something beautiful”. Wow! What a subject to capture. It’s all around us

. It’s hard to choose. If we open our eyes as we move step by step each day there is something beautiful in view.     

I liked the title of this article about what COSI is doing to help the kids while this pandemic is going on. The Center of Science and Industry is closed for now so they are visiting Franklin County underserved children with a surprise. The surprise is a box filled with hands-on science activities. Most of these children area already getting free meals for the summer. They are calling these packages “learning lunch boxes” so along with the free lunches they are feeding the hungry and feeding the minds. The first delivery was at the Barnett branch of the library. The East Side parents and grandparents picked up the kits along with the lunches. The boxes each contain different projects. One was 3-D glasses, seeds to plant, a workbook and an “energy stick” (allows your body to be a human conductor of electricity (safely)”. These projects will be planed around different topics.  The article related that “the activities....are rooted in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM)”. The ages that these boxes are designed for are from kindergarten through high school. They want to educate and enrich and keep the youth “engaged”. An added feature of this project is that is can be downloaded through a COSI app (COSI Connects for one). . 

I am making meat loaf for dinner. 

Joy