January 21, 2021 thought for today: It's wise to do what you're born to do. African Proverb

It has been a kind of busy day and productive at that. I got prepared to go to church for the printing after the usual virtual visits. 

Yesterday’s photo challenge was “a friend”. My most available and always near friends were Sugar and Sweet Pea. So they had to put up with a photo device in their face most of the day. 

While the bulletin was printing, I set up the transfer of the taped church service to the new external hard drive. I also took care of a couple of other small tasks that needed to be done. 

When I left the church, I made a beeline to White Castle sustenance. When I got home, I took care of some quick and short house hold chores, paid one bill, put away some out of the way items, and dusted a couple of those places that seem to be a magnet for such disorder. Then went back to researching an answer to a snag I have been wrestling with. Then moved to a slightly heavier household task, starting the laundry. 

The second photo for yesterday (it was another one of those days I had two photo challenges) was “ wooden”. I went around shooting door jams, floor boards, the fireplace frame and finally the back worn out deck with all kinds of wood grains including a knot hole. 

One thing that has helped make things a bit brighter is the sun today. It is out full force, it deceivingly makes it look welcoming outside, which it may be if dressed appropriately for the chill in the air that the sun beams can’t quite heat. 

Sue got a ride to be where the twins are going to be for the weekend so the house is whisper quiet. 

Now I have to search for a photo of the day. This one is a challenge, I am going to have to be creative, don’t know if I am in one of the “artists moments” today, so it most likely will be a weak attempt. Today’s photo theme is "water". I have a difficult time capturing moving water so I had to come up with some other creative idea. I used my watering can and photo shopped a couple of drops from the spout. 

The word is rise.  Rise above oneself and grasp the world, Archimedes. All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them, Charles Caleb Colton.  Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water, Miguel de Cervantes. Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives, Socrates. Man is that name of power which rises above them all, and gives to every one the right to be that which God meant he should be, Henry Ward Beecher. Everything perfect in its kind has to transcend its own kind, it must become something different and incomparable. In some notes the nightingale is still a bird; then it rises above its class and seems to suggest to every winged creature what singing is truly like, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. As poetry is the harmony of words, so music is that of notes; and as poetry is a rise above prose and oratory, so is music the exaltation of poetry, Henry Purcell. There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it, Joseph Addison. We are not meant to resolve all contradictions but to live with them and rise above them, William Blake. We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it, Voltaire.  A worm is as good a traveler as a grasshopper or a cricket, and a much wiser settler. With all their activity these do not hop away from drought nor forward to summer. We do not avoid evil by fleeing before it, but by rising above or diving below its plane; as the worm escapes drought and frost by boring a few inches deeper, Henry David Thoreau.  

It seem there is a continual effort to stay current with growth and new technology. Columbus and its neighbors seem to be building, remodeling and restoring all the time. This article is about new ground breaking in the Upper Arlington gateway. A new eleven story mixed use building is being planed on Lane Avenue to begin in August. The project was scheduled much earlier but there have been several “push backs”. What will come first are demolitions of buildings housing, Darron’s Furniture, Easy Living Deli, Learning Express Toys, Angel’s Touch, and Dibela Hari and Nails then the foundation will begin. Some financial companies will relocate their offices to the Gateway. The construction company is working with the Upper Arlington city engineer to plan for traffic issues and with community members for any modification to the plan and to traffic flow. There is a ten-foot wide median on one of the connecting roads  “to distinguish the residential neighborhood from commercial and also detour development-site traffic.” There are also plans for the “pedestrian” traffic. There will be an eight-foot wide sidewalk along Lane Avenue that will include landscaping to be a “buffer” from the road. There will be a total of 864 parking spaces. Plans are for 218 “luxury” apartments, office spaces and retail and restaurant space. The article mentioned that there is almost not revenue generated as the site sits today and this plan proposes to generate millions of dollars in revenue. The vision “includes a number of enhancements from previous versions, including traffic improvements, architectural and design upgrades and a more-efficient parking-garage layout.”

We are having Subway tonight, me, a salad not sandwich. 

Joy