February 26, 2021 a thought for today. The more you try to cover things up, the more exposed they will be. Chinese Proverb

I got all of the printing that I needed done yesterday instead of keeping part of it for today. Sue needed to get to an eye doctor appointment this morning so I cleared obligations I had for today so that I could take her. We never know how much time those kinds of appointments will take so I wanted to have the day completely clear. 

It was an early appointment so I got up early to get a couple of things out of the way. We got there in plenty of time. They did a thorough exam taking up to about two hours. With the pandemic going on they are not allowing anyone in the waiting rooms so I had to wait in the hallway with people walking back and forth to about half a dozen different offices (including their individual waiting rooms). I don’t really see how that is much safer than waiting in one doctor’s personal waiting room sitting at safe distances with masks on. But it is what it is and rules are rules even when it seems they don’t make a lot of sense, like a hallway open to a hundred people pacing back and forth vs a waiting room open to maybe a dozen people at a time. 

This photo theme for February 25 was “handwritten note”. I have a very old letter from my father that he sent to me when I was first married and moved away from home. I couldn’t put my fingers on it right away so I used another. This one is from a book of faith given to me from a very dear reverend and friend. 

I got the three documents printed, folded and distributed yesterday, followed by archiving a memory card then coming home and getting involved in major work on the annual report. I was so focused on the annual report that I forgot to start the piles of laundry until shortly before dinner. Needless to day I worked into the evening to get the laundry done. Between yesterday and today I am worn out so I think I will take it on the easy side the rest of the day. 

The word for today is share. When someone steals another's clothes, we call them a thief. Should we not give the same name to one who could clothe the naked and does not? The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry; the coat unused in your closet belongs to the one who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the one who has no shoes; the money which you hoard up belongs to the poor, Saint Basil. God oft hath a great share in a little house, George Herbert.  Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it, Marcus Aurelius.  Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen, Herodotus.   The world will avenge itself upon all happiness in which it has no share, Honore de Balzac. A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root, Napoleon Bonaparte. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it, Margaret Fuller. The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do, Benjamin Disraeli. It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world, Aristotle. We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed, Charles Caleb Colton.  

The photo theme for today is “a wedding”. We have had three very beautiful weddings in the family in the past few years so it was difficult to pick a photo from one of them. They were all gorgeous and graceful weddings. So I picked the one that I came to first in my search. I have a grand daughter and two grand daughter in laws who added to our family.

This story interested me because it is an activity at Franklin Park. Some of their classes can be interesting and informative. This one is titled, |'Bringing Reverence to Nature' rivals real plants. The article started out as “Some of the most stunning plants these days at the Franklin Park Conservatory and Botanical Gardens are not alive.” There is an artist who has been creating life like plants with paper, card stock and Italian crepe paper to be exact.  She studied at the Columbus College of Art and Design. In her living space she enjoys fifty live plants along with her life like created ones. Some say it is hard to tell which is which. An interesting part of the after the paper is cut and arranged she sprays them with transparent paint or dry shampoo to “enhance” the colors. These creations can by arranged in a bowl or hung on a wall or shaped into a Bonsai. Styling a terrarium full of these “plants” is another beautiful display. The artists said that she graduated to this from of paper art from her hobby with origami. She mentioned that paper flowers are a “huge” practice but “strangely .... underground”. Her main venue of plants at this time is succulents but will include more in time. Her display will be at Franklin Park through May 31. She will be giving classes on the art on April 24, May 8 and May 22.

Pizza night!!

Joy