November 14, 2020 thought for today: Take heed you do not find what you do not seek. English Proverb

The girls are here for their sleep over this weekend. I didn’t have time to do their clip art photos but since it is their birthday I baked them a cake. They like to help when we are doing anything in the kitchen so they helped me with the icing. I had the cake batter done and in the oven before they knew what I was doing. 

November 13 the photo theme was “something I can’t live without”. Wellll, the biggest thing I can’t live without is my family and friends and pets. But I picked something a little easier to compose in the moment and in a more structured image. I picked the thing that occupies most of my time. I am retired so I could sit in front of the TV all day and be a couch potato very easily but I like to have my thoughts occupied with things and learn as I go. I am in front of the computer most of the day. I cling to something my father quoted to me many times as I grew up “If you become lazy after you retire in most likelihood you will die early.” I think a big part of not being "lazy" would mean physical exercise which I am not too good at.  

I worked on updating my Redbubble store for a while this morning. And helped the girls with some of their new birthday gifts. 

I am trying to put together a monthly wall calendar with photos of the Westgate area from the present and my archives. I want to take it to a small newly opened art store down the street to put out on consignment. So I may be able to work on that before I get to the kitchen for make the pie crust.  

I am going to take a break for a peanut butter sandwich for lunch and to look for today’s photo. 

The word for today is perceive.  It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own, Marcus Tullius Cicero. To perceive is to suffer, Aristotle.  It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves, Francois Fenelon.  The sage knows without traveling, perceives without looking, completes without acting, Laozi.  I trust in Nature for the stable laws Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant And Autumn garner to the end of time. I trust in God,-the right shall be the right And other than the wrong, while he endures. I trust in my own soul, that can perceive The outward and the inward,-Nature's good And God's, Robert Browning. The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay, Abraham Lincoln.  We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described, Henry David Thoreau. When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us, Marcus Aurelius. The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light, John Calvin.  Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

Today’s photo theme is “the weather outside”. Here in the area of the country where I live autumn is upon us and many days the weather shows the less exciting side of itself. Today was one of those days. Autumn does have a pretty side but can get gloomier to the eye as the days pass. Some days are filled with sunshine and blue sky and fluffy clouds as we ease into winter but today wasn’t quite up to that standard. However, there are the shapes and patterns that can be seen in the limps of the barren trees and now and then a bit of color on one of the homes and in what few leaves there are left on the trees.  

It looks like there will be another change in the Columbus sky line. According to the article today a thirteen story apartment building is in the works to be built in a prominent location on East Broad Street downtown.  It will begin with the demolition of “several interconnected buildings” that have been on the corner of Broad and Young streets for decades. Since one of the buildings is a historic structure the façade of it will be incorporated in the new development.  Some of the materials used in this project will be “metal panels, vertical metal fins and black glazed brick.” There will be 133 apartments over a five story parking garage. On the bottom of the structure there will be retail space. On the upper level there will be a “clubhouse, a dog walk and a swimming pool.”

We are going to try a recipe for the best French meat pie that Bob found on facebook. It called for store bought pie crust which I don’t have on hand so I will have to make it from scratch, I haven’t made pie crust from scratch in eons. I want to get it started before I take the message sheets to church so it will be ready to come out of the oven when I get back. 

Joy