November 10, 2020 thought for the day: Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something. French Proverb

I put off doing the bulletin yesterday since running the errands with Sue took up most of the morning. So I got to work on that project the first thing this morning and was able to get it finished. 

On November 9 the photo theme title was “a corner of my home”. After thinking of all the corners in my home I realized for one purpose or another there are a lot of interesting corners around the house. But the one that I am most proud of and I think might be the healthiest is my “indoor” garden. 

I have a space in my “new” kitchen that needs a long floating shelf or a long narrow console (or behind the soda) table. I ended up ordering a console table. It was just delivered about an hour ago.  Bob is off from work a little early today so he has started putting it together. 

Some of my friends from a couple of the photo clubs I belong to have mentioned selling some things from some of the many online sites that feature photo based gifts. I have quite a stock pile at the Redbubble site (redbubble.com/people/jarector/explore?asc=u)  and a few at the Fine Art America site. So I have decided to let my friends (who will hopefully tell their friends) about my offerings. I haven’t attended to the site for over a year now so there are some updates that I need to tend to as well as add new photos. I got a start on that this morning. I have over a thousand photo-based items on the site so it is going to be an ongoing effort to update them all.  If you visit please be patient, it is updating every day. 

One of the photo challenges for today is “older”. I thought about a close up selfie exposing my umpteen wrinkles. I wasn’t really excited about doing that so I choose a stack of very old books we seem to have collected. Some are saved from my dads school days others from other relatives' early life. 

The word for today is peace. Peace is freedom in tranquility, Marcus Tullius Cicero. At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace, John Dryden.  To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand, And eternity in an hour. William Blake.  Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain, Marquis de Sade.  To the wicked, everything serves as pretext, Voltaire.  Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders, Marquis de Sade.  Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts, Ovid. Savage bears keep at peace with one another, Juvenal. If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men, Francis of Assisi.  Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives, Teresa of Avila.  Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light, Pindar. When we yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future, Therese of Lisieux.  I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God, George Eliot. 

The second photo of the day for today is titled “song title”. We were supposed to use a song title to describe the image we were presenting. I titled mine “Above the Clouds”. 

I have never had the pleasure of visiting this event. It sounds like fun. This story is from the Columbus Messenger and is about the “London’s Olde Fashioned Christmas: New day and time”. According to the article the event will go on as it has in the past with a few adjustments due to the pandemic. The day and time have changed. In the past it took place on the Monday after Thanksgiving, this year it will happen on the Sunday after Thanksgiving from 2 to 6pm

Here are some of the things that will be included in the event. A horse-drawn wagon with carriage rides. The wagon rides will be free. The carriage rides will be $20 and can include six people, reservations are required. Santa Claus will be at the Trinity Episcopal Church all afternoon. There will also a “Santa Mail Box” for kids who want to write to Santa. The Christmas Parade is open for anyone who wants to participate either walking or in a “decorated vehicle”. The parade begins at 2pm. There will also be a Pet Parade for pets dressed up in their finest. Any kind of pet is welcome. This special parade begins at 3pm. There is no cost for the participants and there will be awarded. There will be a “Holiday Wreath Giveaway. Ten to 12 wreaths will be given away. There will be a free drawing and winners will be announced at the end of the afternoon. Another offering at the event is a photo booth and other fun activities. To add to the festivities are food, carolers, merchant sales, face painting and costumed characters. For more information contact the Downtown London Association at downtownlondonassociation@gmail.com.

We are having Parmesan coated baked chicken, chicken stuffing and chicken gravy for dinner. 

Joy

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