June 18, 2021 a thought for today, The day before yesterday and yesterday are not the same as today. Kenyan Proverb

Yesterday’s photo challenge was “a handful”. I was going to use a handful of chocolate chips but decided I would probably have to eat them when the shot was complete and that could have led to further handfuls....so I decided on a handful of coins instead. 

It has been a busy day already. I left the house early this morning to make my first stop at the BMV to stand in line in order to get a replacement for the handicapped placard that had been stolen from my car last week. Mission accomplished.....so onward. 

The next stop was back to Hoge to re-print the bulletin for this week. I missed the fact that this is a communion week and left out that part on the first copy of the bulletin that I printed yesterday. I corrected that as well as making a poster letting people know that we will be back to our normal form of free meals and ministry on July 3. We have been handing out “boxed” meals for the past several months. Now we will be going back to the cafeteria/sit down meals in a large meeting hall inside the church, much better for socializing and sharing cares and concerns. 

We are getting yet more rain. This round looks a little more severe than the ones last week. We may have some heavy winds with it and some possible hail. I am going to have to move a few of the house plants that are on their “vacation”, so that they don’t get knocked over. 

With all the standing at the BMV this morning and some other walking today, my legs are aching enough to make it necessary for a couple of Tylenol tablets. I am taking the rest of the day “off”. 

Today’s theme is “rough”. As I was out and about I was on the alert for things that were rough in texture. I made shots of brick and stone buildings, including the White Castle building that is highly “textured”. I ended up with this old stone fence/wall. 

The word today is anger.  Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy, Aristotle. For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato. Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas a Kempis. Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha. Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. Benjamin Franklin. How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it. Marcus Aurelius. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. Francis Bacon.  An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. Publilius Syrus.  Anger cannot be dishonest. Marcus Aurelius. There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust. Saint Francis de Sales.

Here is another bit of history about Columbus. This one is about the Statehouse and a fire. As we know from past articles and a study of history, the Ohio General Assembly voted to move the capital city from Chillicothe to Columbus in 1812. There was a “bitter contention” over the move to Columbus from other towns but the “High Banks opposite Franklinton at the Forks of the Scioto” was chosen. So the building of a new town was begun for 10 acre lots of public buildings. Prison labor was used for the construction process. A prison was built, Statehouse Square was erected with small two story buildings. The statehouse itself was completed in 1815. There were ornate architectural elements of the period. There were maps, an engraved copy of the Declaration of Independence and other “articles of use and ornament”. After a short period of time it was “clear that a larger and more imposing building was needed”. At that point it was decided to construct a building “second only in size and elegance to the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C.”. The cornerstone was laid in 1839. For one reason and another work on the site lagged. At the same time there was little to no maintenance and upkeep on the old statehouse. Visitors to the building showed a “sense of mortification at the appearance”. In February of 1852 some time after four o’clock there was a cry of fire in the streets. The Old Statehouse was on fire. It began in the center of the Senate Chamber on the floor. When that part was put out it was observed that the overhead timbers and the belfry were on fire too. It continued to grow, engines could not reach the fire. The roof fell in as the second story became a mass of flames. The sergeant at arms and other volunteers saved as much of the papers and furniture as they could. The new building wasn’t complete so the House and Senate met in inns and hotels until 1857. It was later stated about the fire in the statehouse “circumstances strongly indicate that the origin was incendiary.”  No one was ever identified as the arsonist.”

Pizza!!

Joy