August 23, 2021 a thought for today, Who doesn't approach with disbelief, won't see the face of paradise. Sicilian Proverb 

This Monday is starting a very busy week off with a long list of to-dos. I started by  working on the newsletter where I left off yesterday. I think I have it down to half of one page to get done before Thursday. Then there is the bulletin, I haven’t even started on it yet. I needed to get a trip to the grocery store out of the way before the other parts of the list come down on me. 

Yesterday’s photo for the day (“month of gratitude” theme) was the sign and button for stopping traffic (changing the crossing light)  to make a safe crossing of a busy street. 

I needed to handle the payment plan for my dental expenses on line this morning too. Then I had another phone call to take care of before we got out the door on the day’s errands. 

Sue had a doctor’s appointment at one o’clock so I dropped her off for that. I should have stopped by the church on the way home. There was a meeting that I would like to have attended just to keep up with the next mission we hope to start but I still had so much to do here that I missed the meeting. I still have groceries to put up, dinner to make and the photo of the day project to attend to. 

It looks like we are going to have one of the high temperature days today. I am working on a crochet temperature blanket so today’s color will be red since the temps are over eighty degrees. 

The word for today is desire. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato. The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise. Tacitus, The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. Confucius. Always desire to learn something useful. Sophocles.  Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything. Saint Teresa of Avila. Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. Thomas Aquinas.  True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. Emanuel Swedenborg. A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on cold iron. Horace Mann.  The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you? Walt Whitman. Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Saint Augustine. Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi.

Today’s photo of the day in the month of gratitude theme series is one of my favorite stops, White Castle and its slider sized burgers. Over the years this has become a favorite stop for many particularly in Ohio where it all started. Over time they became so popular that now they are offered in the freezer section of grocery stores (not quite the same as first hand but still delicious and apparently mesmerizing)

This article may be a little ahead of what some of you reading it may mean but you can keep the idea for future reference or pass it on to your grandparents. I use to be amazed with rickshaws when I would read about them. Then I was concerned for the rider not thinking much about the passengers. Anyway, this title caught my attention with that in my mind. Apparently there is a “new” form of transportation and relaxation coming to the Columbus area. The article opened with describing a bike ride that an 89-year-old and a 90-year-old had just experienced without even “breaking a sweat”.  They had returned from an experience on a three-wheeled bike (trishaw, from tricycle and rickshaw). In this mode of transportation one or two persons are “transported” in the “front seat” on the trishaw. This is a new program called Cycling Without Age (CWA) not in progress in a local retirement community. This adventure “kicked off last week at Creekside”. It allows seniors to be active and outdoors more easily.  According to the article “Cycling Without Age” was started in 2010 in Copenhagen, Denmark”. That group has grown from 2,500 chapters in 50 countries. As well as the new group in Columbus there is a chapter in Dublin, New Albany, Plain City, Tiffin, Cincinnati, Akron, Toledo, Cleveland and Dayton. One of the gentlemen working in this program has one trishaw (at a cost of $10,000). He took time during the pandemic, since the program had precautions and slowed things down, to find and train volunteers that would ride the bikes (pilots). He had sixty people volunteer. At the start of the program at Creekside people signed up for the rides which are divided into 30-minute blocks for one or two people. (I am getting a picture of horse and buggy rides in Central Park in New York). I am wondering if this trishaw experience will become available to more Seniors in the Columbus area.  

We are having taco salad for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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