It is staying darker longer in the mornings now, I haven’t had cause to notice that as much as when I was working and had to leave the house just after 7:00. Now I wake up when Bob is getting ready to leave for work. I usually lounge in bed for a while though.
I started the day as usual for a Monday after the virtual visits, working on the bulletin. After I got the back page done, I realized the minister we are having this week has never preached for us before. I don’t have any contact information for him. I contacted Tom and he sent me an email address and a text address. I sent the email but the text messages kept coming back. I hope he reads his email.
Yesterday’s photo theme for the day was “V,” my choice....vine.I had an appointment for a mamogram at just before noon. I leaned something from the visit (I love learning something new every day)...my former doctor said we didn’t need mamograms after age 75. The tech I had today said the older we get the more important it is to get one every year. Sue went along with me, I feel more comfortable having someone with me as a sort of advocate when I may forget something I was told or just for the security of it. It moved along well so we were in and out within half an hour. I decided to return home by way of Sullivant Avenue instead of Broad Street to miss some of the orange barrels. But...hey....they were just as bad on Sullivant. Oh well, I hope it means we are getting some much needed updates.
I don’t have much on the agenda for the rest of the day. I need to make some chicken for Sugar’s special diet but that won’t take long. And, of course, I have to find, shoot and post process the photo of the day. I haven’t worked on Nancy’s journal for a while so I should spend some time on that too.
I am beginning to keep the windows open a little longer now. The air temps are cooling off. We seem to be beginning to get some much needed rain which is cooling things off. I love that about spring and autumn, keeping the windows open, I mean. The smell of the fresh air and the sounds of the seasons. At night I love the near distant sounds of train whistles. Where my house is located we can also hear the rush of cars on a freeway. The best sounds are the wind chimes and the calls of insects of the season. As part of my enjoyment of the seasons and life going by, I like to take a glance out the window and watch the occasional jogger go by or someone walking their dog or pushing a stroller. And now in this season I see the kids walking to the school that is a few blocks away.
The word today is balanced. There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy, Chanakya. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man, Euripides. The music masters familiarize children's minds with rhythms and melodies, thus making them more civilized, more balanced, better adjusted in themselves, and more capable in whatever they say or do, for rhythm and harmony are essential to the whole of life, Plato. O to be self-balanced for contingencies, to confront night, storms, hunger, ridicule, accidents, rebuffs, as the trees and animals do, Walt Whitman. Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor, Homer. One more, The books are balanced in heaven, not here, Josh Billings.
More newness in Columbus. It’s nice to see Columbus grow and to see all the interesting architecture that someone comes up with. I couldn’t find much good stuff in news today so here’s one from a couple of days ago. For some reason I have an interest in the improvements that are going on in the Franklinton area of our city. According to this article the is a high rise structure being constructed at the beginning of last spring is going on to the second phase which is adding 304 units to the initial 230 apartments. The feature drawing the most attention is a 12 story tower with views of the Scioto River and downtown. It is another of the mixed use buildings I have been reading about being used and established in Columbus. There will be office space, 180 apartments, a four story section (as well as the “tower”) and a three story parking garage.
My photo challenge for today is W, I used window. I probably haven’t mentioned before that taking these photos each day is like keeping a photo journal of sorts. Many of my “shots” are not the “quality” for a contest entry but more in the order of snap shot. I find one, a snap shot, as interesting as the other, an art piece, even though one captures memories and the other the attraction of lines, space, form and color. Anyway, here’s my photo:
I am pulling some saved potato soup (recipe in an earlier blog) from the freezer for dinner along with the infamous fried bologna sandwiches.
Joy
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