August 13, 2020 thought for the day: When you meet a man, you judge him by his clothes; when you leave, you judge him by his heart. Russian Proverb

The “busy” day is upon me. I did the virtual visits and then the minor corrections to the bulletin. I gathered up the three pieces of items that I needed to print and headed for the church. As I pulled in the parking lot I looked up to one of the crosses on the top of the church and noticed a bird seeming to relax while enjoying the fresh air and the sunshine. It was going to be my photo of the day.

Yesterday’s photo title was “create”. I work on several crochet projects in the evening. In this shot I am working on a table cloth. The work on it is a continuing process. I put it aside to work on things for my great grand children after a half hour or so.

I had the three pieces each printed by the time Jim came in and stopped by the office to say good morning. I finished the folding and walked the bulletins around and placed outside each of the doors to the sanctuary.

When I got home, I checked some email and then started a cursory beginning to the up coming newsletter. Later I did some of the watering.

I mentioned above that I was on the look out for today’s photo. Once I was able to post process it I was satisfied with what I had shot. My daily “assignments” have made me much more aware of what is going on around me. It also encourages me to be watchful for possible image creation for almost all that I see. It is a refreshing was of seeing life. The challenge today is “fresh air”.

I got the laundry started in good time but then forgot about it. I got involved in some searches on the computer and lost focus on everything except the searching. So the second load went in later than it should have slowing up the rest of the day.

One of my daily searches today was to find out what happened to my diabetes meds. They should have been here days ago.  I was on the phone for an hour or so tracking it down and trying to determine what road I would take if I had to reorder is. It is the most expensive of my meds and the insurance doesn’t cover much of it. I finally got the situation settled successfully.


The word today is learn. To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future, Plutarch.  Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future, William Wordsworth. Don't stumble over something behind you, Seneca the Younger. We never know the worth of water till the well is dry, Thomas Fuller. Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for, Epicurus. Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well, Voltaire. Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering, Charles Dickens. One forgives to the degree that one loves, Francois de La Rochefoucauld.  Learning never exhausts the mind, Leonardo da Vinci. All learning is in the learner, not the teacher, Plato.  We are by nature observers, and thereby learners. That is our permanent state, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. 

We get a bit of a fresh breath from this article. The article concerns feedback about the Scioto Trail Extension and the Quarry Trails Connections. Both of which I would like to visit, I’m not sure they are finished yet. The Columbus Recreation and Parks Department on a future extension to fill a gap in the trail connecting the Quarry Trails Metro Park to the Dublin path and the Heritage Rail Trail. The Heritage Rail Trail starts in Hilliard and goes to Plain City.  There is a survey describing alternatives for a new trail, one from Fifth Avenue to Trabue Road and the other from Trabue to Griggs Dam.  Two would offer access by way of an abandoned rail bridge that crosses the Scioto River. It could end up connecting Plain City to Downtown to the Scioto Audubon Metro Park. 

It is going to be left overs for dinner tonight.

Joy