November 8, 2020 thought for the day: Small wells are better to quench your thirst. French Proverb

The message at church was great today. I liked the theme “The Purpose of Time” and the use of one of Jesus’ parable to cement the statement, all was well presented too. I learn the most from parables than from any other teaching methods.  

For my next two photo images you can pretty much tell what my favorite pass time is.....eating. Yesterday’s photo challenge was “something I do every day”. Well, we all eat....that was my choice of images. I cheated a little and pulled a shot from my archives, I got so preoccupied that I nearly forgot to take time to compose a shot for the “assignment”. 

Once I got home from church this morning and started uploading the taped service to facebook, Lowell called to see if I would like to go to lunch with him and Rebecca. I can’t turn that down, I look forward to the kind of visit (and food) all the time and on any and all occasions. We met at Tee Jays. On the way we came across traffic from a car accident. The squad was on the scene so someone was injured.

It’s a gorgeous autumn day. It would be fine with me if this kind of weather would last for the next few months. That’s called day dreaming. On the other hand, I would most likely miss the change of seasons. 

The word today is pause. Though the human heart may have to pause for rest when climbing the heights of affection it rarely stops on the slippery slope of hatred, Honore de Balzac.  The man who pauses in his honesty wants little of a villain, Henry Martyn.  The future is always fairyland to the young. Life is like a beautiful and winding lane, on either side bright flowers, and beautiful butterflies and tempting fruits, which we scarcely pause to admire and to taste, so eager are we to hasten to an opening which we imagine will be more beautiful still. But by degrees, as we advance, the trees grow bleak; the flowers and butterflies fail, the fruits disappear......, George Augustus Henry Sala. All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  His virtues walked their narrow round, Nor made a pause, nor left a void; And sure the Eternal Master found The single talent well employed, Samuel Johnson. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, to rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life, Alfred Lord Tennyson.  Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you, William Shakespeare.  What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause! Walt Whitman.  I do not understand; I pause; I examine, Michel de Montaigne.  Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  

Today’s photo theme is “a favourite word”. I searched the Sunday paper for the word I wanted to use so that I could make a photo of it but that didn’t happen. I couldn’t find the word food or meal with enough character to use. So I pulled another image from, my archives and used some of my budding artistic talent to generate the word food to superimpose over my chosen image.

It’s interesting to watch the changes and growth of OSU and the surrounding area through the years. Here are the newest plans. This news article from the columbusunderground.com mentioned that The Ohio State University have been continuing construction, both beginning and finishing, throughout 2020. Here are some of the projects: At the Wexner Medical Center a new Inpatient Hospital that will be the largest facility “ever undertaken” and completed in 2026. There are two buildings at 15th and High being constructed. One will be the WOSU headquarters, the other a mixed-use building and will a be “centerpiece of the nine-acre development. There is a power plant in the works combining heat and power near the OSU Veterinary Hospital. In the Arts District just across High Street from the 15th and High site work on a multifaceted project is in progress. There is a new School of Music then work on a new Department of Theatre building. There article stated that there could be a “complete transformation of West Campus and first phase has begun. Work is almost completed on a new Postle Hall. Another opening scheduled for this month is Optometry Clinic and Health Sciences Faculty Office Building and the interdisciplinary Health Sciences Center is in its first phase. 

I am not cooking tonight, we will be digging for whatever we can find or want to eat. 

Joy

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