September 22, 2021 a thought for the day, A devil takes one and makes two, a saint takes two and makes one. Monacan  Proverb

Wow, what a whirl wind day. I finished the bulletin, did the shut in envelopes and the craft pages for HM3. I finished most of this just before I had to leave for working at the food pantry.

It has been pouring rain most of the morning so we didn’t have too many clients show up at food pantry today. Yesterday was quite different. The number of people we had come in yesterday was almost back to what it was before the pandemic. It felt good to have that many people back. Hopefully next week will be busy too. 

The photo theme for September 21 was “pile”. This happens to be healthy collection of bread available to our food pantry guests. 

I think I mentioned that I have put off finishing the newsletter until next Monday. I’m even more glad I did as time passes. There is still a good bit to get done and not much time left to do it before Friday. Having the weekend is a relief.  

The word for today is feelings.  Never play with the feelings of others, because you may win the game but the risk is that you will surely lose the person for life time. William Shakespeare.  Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth. Benjamin Disraeli.  When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. Rumi.  Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Samuel Adams.  First feelings are always the most natural. Louis XIV. Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts? Confucius. Butterflies are but flowers that blew away one sunny day when Nature was feeling at her most inventive and fertile. George Sand.  See to it that each hour's feelings, and thoughts, and actions are pure and true; then will your life be such. Henry Ward Beecher.   Let’s not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it. Vincent Van Gogh. If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings. Nathaniel Hawthorne.  Never exaggerate, but express your feelings with moderation. Teresa of Avila.  One makes use of pigments, but one paints with one's feelings, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin.  Like waves, our feelings may continue by repeating themselves, by intermittent rushes; but no emotion any more than a wave can long retain its own individual form. Henry Ward Beecher.

Today’s photo challenge is “hobby”. I have a few. Besides the photography I have been attached to for a number of years, most of my life off and on, I enjoy reading and crocheting also.  I was in a hurry to get this uploaded since my day was full and added a filter that I am a little disappointed with at the conclusion of the processing but I didn’t have time to change it. I’m afraid that it makes the equipment look a little dingy. 

Here’s a little more about our community. The opening line of this article is “On March 30, 1803, the State of Ohio authorized the creation of Franklin County. The county originally was part of Ross County. The county was named in honor of Benjamin Franklin.” The article went on to summarize the establishment of Columbus as the capital of Ohio in 1812  and some of the historic places in Columbus such as the first penitentiary here in 1813. The first church, school and newspaper in 1814. In 1824 Columbus became to county seat. In 1834 we were 5000 people large.  We became a city at that time too. We are now the largest city in population in Ohio. Franklin County is 540 square miles large. Even though the population is large, we still had six hundred farms in 2000. More tidbits of information are that Columbus is the birthplace of Wendy’s and long time home of White Castle. Some major research services in Columbus is Battelle Memorial Institute, OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc, and Chemical Abstracts Services. In the area of cultural life we have music, drama, dance and other art organizations which also include the Columbus Museum of Art, the Ohio Historical Center, the Center of Ohio Science and Industry. In the sports area Franklin County is home of the NCAA football national champion Ohio State Buckeyes, the Blue Jacket and the Columbus Crews are here. There famous names who visited the city or have some kind of attachment here, George Bellows, Alice Schille, Eddie Rickenbacker, and James Thurber. And just to boast about the State of Ohio we have eight presidents, William Harrison, Gant, Hayes, Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, McKinley, Taft and Harding.  

I am making a quick Tuna Helper dinner. 

Joy

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