July 24, 2021 a thought for today, Truth suffers but never perishes.  Mexican Proverb

The days fly by....it’s Saturday again. A day to sleep-in a little (a very old habit, since the time of schools days way back so many years ago.... a habit so old it is hard to break and why should we anyway?). 

Yesterday’s challenge was “shop”. I drove around taking shots of facilities with this shop or that shop in the title but decided to go this route. I didn't like the background in this final photo. It was a gray cement wall,  so I used a Photoshop filter to bump it up a bit. 

Sue has been saying she has been wanting to go to the thrift store and spend hours “shopping”. I am not a thrift store shopper, more of an online shopper, so I told her I would drop her off then pick her up when she calls me to tell me she is ready. So that is what we did this morning. I have made the trip to drop her off but haven’t been called yet to pick her up. 

We had a problem with printing at church this week. I got the bulletin done with one extra step, having a copy made at Kinko then back to the church to make copies. Patti and I decided the let the newsletter go for a few days and try to get the copier problem fixed. I will go in Monday to try to print the delayed newsletter. It is looking like next week is going to be a busy one. With separate days of printing and two days of volunteering at food pantry. And one day for lunch without of town family. 

I will be preparing tonight's dinner early again this week so I will have time to get to HM3 (free meal) at church around five o’clock. 

So today will be spent with a little computer work, pick Sue up and a little work in the kitchen. 

Today’s theme is “peace”. Once again Westgate Park became my source. This is a spot where in the
cover of darkness it is reported that some untoward happenings occur. But in the gift of daylight it is a beautiful, restful and peaceful green space for city dwellers to enjoy. 

The word for today is circle. From the calm morning, the end will come when of the dancing horse the number of circles will be nine, Nostradamus.  Just as a circle embraces all that is within it, so does the God-head embrace all. No one has the power to divide this circle, to surpass it, or to limit it, Hildegard of Bingen. The earth together with its surrounding waters must in fact have such a shape as its shadow reveals, for it eclipses the moon with the arc of a perfect circle. Nicolaus Copernicus. Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo. Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full circle. Francis Cabot Lowell.  The realm of immediate or personal knowledge is a narrow circle in which these bodies move; the realm of knowledge derived through faith is as wide as the universe, and old as eternity. Matthew Simpson. Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle, Jane Austen. Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless, Luc de Clapiers. Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round, Herman Melville. We are all connected to each other, in a circle, in a hoop that never ends, Pocahontas.  I roamed the countryside searching for answers to things I did not understand. Why shells existed on the tops of mountains. How the various circles of water form around the spot which has been struck by a stone, and why a bird sustains itself in the air, Leonardo da Vinci. In a narrow circle the mind contracts. Man grows with his expanded needs, Friedrich Schiller. Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil, Charles Caleb Colton. 

According to today’s article, it looks like the area of the Greyhound bus station, 2.5 acres, will be getting a much new look. It has existed in Columbus since 1943. COTA is in contract to buy the station. It plans to tear the facility and set up a “mixed-use-transit-oriented” development. The Greyhound operation will move to the COTA facility on Rich Street. There will be two transit corridors from the new development on the new site. The hopes are for a “substantial urban development that adds vibrancy, walkability and density to the area”. There are still further uses to be included for the property, office, mixed-income residential, and retail. In the area of the present Greyhound Bus facility there was the historic Central Market witch was demolished when the “urban renewal project” took place in the 1960s. 

 I will be making chili and hash browns for dinner before I go to help with the free meal at church. 

Joy

                         almost stuck....but look at the color and nature's affects all around