July 8, 2021 a thought for today, Youth is intoxication without wine; old age, wine without intoxication. Peruvian Proverb

Thursday, printing day at the church. After the virtual visits and the usual first of the day’s tasks, I headed for the church. There has been a flurry of activity getting all the technical equipment back to working order after the lightening strike. So I was wondering how the computer would respond. After a hiccup getting it to come on everything worked as it should.  

Yesterday’s photo theme was “fire”. I had the same theme last month but from a different group that I belong to. I don’t have a lot of fire producing products available to photograph so I use the burner on the gas stove and try to give a little bit of a different format to the image each time I use it. 

I made the usual round of stops on the way home, White Castle and the park where I got some photos for my “challenges”. 

The weather has turned, AGAIN. Now it’s back to the cloudy skies and rain. We have arranged to have Sweet Pea bathed here at home by the hose outside in the driveway but I don’t know how that will go with the on-again-off-again rain situation.

Next on the agenda for today was to start the laundry so that will take up the rest of the day as a multi task situation.

One thing that was a boost to the day was a short visual telephone visit with two of my great grandchildren. 

Just a few minutes ago I got another call that is going to make a little life change for a short period of time. A family member needs to have a baby sitter for their cat for a few weeks. I agreed. Hope it turns off on the pleasurable side. 

Today’s photo challenge is “cool”. I think the statues of the three letters of the alphabet in our local park are “cool”. The young kids in who visit the park think they are “cool” too, for some reason the B on its side seems to be a particular attraction. 

The word for today is broken.  The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed. Charlotte Bronte.  Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all. Ovid. The heart will break, but broken live on. Lord Byron.  Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken. Publilius Syrus.  On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven a perfect round. Robert Browning.  Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. Saint Francis de Sales.  Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended. Quintilian.  In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson. All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot. Henry Ward Beecher. Truth may be stretched, but cannot be broken, and always gets above falsehood, as does oil above water. Miguel de Cervantes. Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations. Frederick William Robertson.  Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart, Washington Irving.  Love is not written on paper, for paper can be erased. Nor is it etched on stone, for stone can be broken. But it is inscribed on a heart and there it shall remain forever, Rumi.  There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power, Washington Irving.  Who can undo What time hath done? Who can win back the wind? Reckon lost music from a broken lute? Renew the redness of a last year's rose? Or dig the sunken sunset from the deep? Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton.

This article is about a new statue to become part of the Columbus landscape. It may or may not leave an odd thought along with interesting ideas of a pros and cons nature. It is a Giant Slingshot Sculpture in Franklinton. It’s not “functional” as that of the idea of a slingshot but is reported to be eye-catching. It is twenty feet high and will be located in the Lucas Street  Plaza at  Lucas Street and Sullivant Avenue. It will be a focal point of Lucas Street. There is a hill behind it that leads to the Scioto River and is located near two three story buildings. There will be lighting to illuminate it. It is reported to “play with Franklinton’s position across from Downtown and separated by the river. It will appear to be “shooting towards the city”. It will be built of steel but look wooden. There will be stairs on the side of the platform so that viewers can imagine being “slung” across the river and offer photo ops from that position. One person associated with the project said that it “speaks to being a catalyst for movement signifying a city that is charged and ready to go”. The plans are to have it installed this fall. 

I will most likely pull something from the freezer for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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