August 11, 2021 a thought for today, The heaviest thing in the world is an empty pocket. Yiddish Proverb

The twins spent the night and yesterday with us. So we made a trip to the park with them. They walked Sweet Pea and then spent some time on the play ground equipment. Later we had lunch at McDonalds. 

The photo theme for yesterday was “month of gratitude”... “watching the twins and Sweet Pea enjoy a green space”. We had a walk at my favorite and well-frequented city park. 

Yesterday, Kim, Chrisy, and Lowell planned an evening supper/birthday party for Rebecca. It was fun. Kim arranged the yard with a collection of pink flamingos (“flocking”). William had a ball lifting his leg to get over each of them. Chrisy brought sacks of food from Arby’s. Lowell bought cake, ice cream, snacks and pizzas. Part of the route I take to get to their house is blocked with a detour. I am bad with detours and getting lost so Sue was my navigator. We had the twins with us. Their mother picked them up at the party. I got to play with two of my great grand babies. There were three other couples at the party and the companionship was great. 

Today was back to the ordinary. Sue and I made our weekly trip to Kroger early. Before we left, I had time to finish the bulletin and send it to the proofreaders.

I had a second photo of the day for yesterday it was called “pareidolia” (the human ability to see shapes
or make pictures out of randomness.) To my mind’s eye I saw the shape of a bear or teddy bear lying down, resting in a cloud. 

It’s cloudy off and on but it’s still a beautiful summer day.

The word today is dance. Never give a sword to a man who can't dance. Confucius. In life, as in art, the beautiful moves in curves. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.  When the music and dance create with accord...their magic captivates both the heart and the mind. Jean-Georges Noverre.  There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time, when he was an old man, to learn music and dancing, and thought it time well spent. Michel de Montaigne. Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire.  All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses. Saint Augustine. Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free, Rumi. Whoever would have his body supple, easy and healthful should learn to dance, Socrates. There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance, Solomon. How inimitably graceful children are in general-before they learn to dance, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. To chase the glowing hours with flying feet, Lord Byron. Dancing is like dreaming with your feet! Constanze Mozart.  You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,  Psalm 30:11.  

My photo to meet the theme (“month of gratitude”) for today is my great grandson trying to hop over a pink flamingo (part of a “flocking” birthday surprise for his grandma). I’m grateful for time with him as I am with my other five great grandchildren). 

The article is about some revitalizing of a historic building in the Brewery District. There is “a collection of vacant historic buildings near the entrance to the Scioto Audubon Metro Park” at Front and Whittier Streets.  There are plans to renovate the largest of the buildings. The building in question is six-stories in height and was once a shoe heel manufacturing company. In the process of updating this structure a warehouse, a garage and a single family home will be demolished to make way for a new parking garage with about 100 apartments included. There is a group of people concerned that the new architecture will harm the historical significance of the area. However, it is felt by others that the “architectural team can work.....to deliver a plan .....with respect for the existing architecture”. On the one side it is felt that the warehouse building and the single family home are “contributing structures” to the history of the area and shouldn’t be demolished. From the other point of view the warehouse would be problematic in a restoration. And the single family home doesn’t fit into the picture of the reuse for the site.  So there are some further planning discussions before the restoration would begin. 

We are having a casserole from the freezer along with cold cuts and left over macaroni salad for dinner. 

Joy

resting on thin blades of grass