September 24, 2021 a thought for today, Pleasant words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bone. Moroccan Proverb
What a day....actually, what a week. To begin with my calendar schedule was filling up to the point of pulling my hair out. So much so that I moved to finish the newsletter to several days later than the usual finishing day. Here it is Friday and as I am recounting the week. I find that I can’t think of a time where there were so many plans made and then changed at the last minute. Tuesday Sue had a doctor’s appointment that was on the calendar, we found out on Monday that was changed to another date. We were going to have the twins for an overnight on Thursday (yesterday), that got turned around, another adventure came up for them. Today I was scheduled to have a tooth pulled and to receive a dental bridge. We got to the appointment and were in the waiting room when we learned that the dental bridge wasn’t ready yet so the appointment got moved to next week. Seems I could have just kept my normal newsletter week schedule after all.
Since I had moved the newsletter printing, I didn’t make an all out effort to get it done by Thursday. I put it on the back burner according to the calendar schedule. There were two items still to be formatted. When Lowell dropped me off after the trip to the dental office, this morning I got to work on the newsletter. After about two hours the newsletter is complete.
The weather has taken a pretty surprising turn. The temperature has dropped about twenty degrees. I turned the furnace on. I may have to put a sweat shirt on too.
the disregard for something that had a health value and another for someone’s choice of final resting place.
The word today is fine. It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds. Aesop. The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence, Ralph Waldo Emerson. A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton. That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, lest you should think he never could recapture the first fine careless rapture! Robert Browning. ...True prayer is measured by weight, not by length. A single groan before God may have more fullness of prayer in it than a fine oration of great length, Charles Spurgeon. There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts, Philibert Joseph Roux. The intellectual quest, though fine as pearl or coral, is not the spiritual search. That spiritual search is on another level. Spiritual wine is a different substance, Rumi. The best part of health is fine disposition, Ralph Waldo Emerson. There is nothing so absurd as knowledge spun too fine, Benjamin Franklin. There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much, Francois de La Rochefoucauld.
Here in this article is some talk about taking down another historic building. That makes me sad. The article shares some conflicting views on this plan. I personally like to see old buildings restored and re-purposed. The South Dormitory in the area of The Ohio State University campus is planned to be demolished to create a parking lot. It was built in 1935. As a point of interest and consideration while reading this story, the article mentioned that in 2021 the city spent over $20 million to renovate a nearby larger main building that was built in 1874. The North and the South dormitories accommodated 132 students each, the North Dormitory for boys and the South Dormitory for girls. They were designed in the Jacobethan Revival Style “with materials and details that cannot be matched or afforded today”. The North Dormitory is not slated to be demolished as the South Dormitory is slated for that fate. According to the article the South Dormitory hasn’t been occupied for almost twenty-five years. The demolition request is scheduled on October 14. Apparently a “no” vote from the neighborhood group could slow down the process but not stop the demolition. Both the North and the South Dormitory buildings are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. There are thoughts and hopes that the “aesthetic, cultural and historic value of the building.....(and) .hopes the city will also consider the environmental impact of tearing down the South Dormitory”. This way of thinking considers “reuse of the existing building and reduces new construction that would save on carbon emissions”. Toward this form of thought the building is “100% preservation worthy”.
It’s pizza night again.....yeah
Joy
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