September 8, 2021 a thought for today, When wood is chopped, wood chips will fly. Russian Proverb

I am on the tense side of emotions today. I have an appointment with the dentist this afternoon and I am not looking forward to it at all. I am supposed to go back again in Friday. 

The photo challenge for yesterday was titled “mailbox”. I toured the neighborhood looking for unique mailboxes. Well, I didn’t find that many with the description “unique” but I found this one that I think had some interesting artistic qualities beyond the mailbox itself.  

I am trying to get as much done before I leave for the dentist so that I won’t have anything on the agenda after I get home from the dentist. I don’t know how I will feel. 

Thankfully I didn’t have too much listed for today anyway. I got the bulletin done earlier this week and I have the other things ready for printing tomorrow. 

I would be getting more done with the house plants but I don’t think that will be part of today’s to-do list. 

The word for today is ethics.  In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude. Thomas Erskine. To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man, William Shakespeare. Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense, Aristotle.  Education is the art of making man ethical. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.  Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages, Thomas Jefferson.  Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth, Gautama Buddha. Ethics may be defined as the obligations of morality. Lajos Kossuth.  No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor, Thomas Carlyle. He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Both wit and understanding are trifles without integrity, Oliver Goldsmith.  Honest hearts produce honest actions, Brigham Young.  Every flower of the field, every fiber of a plant, every particle of an insect carries with it the impress of its Maker and can-if duly considered-read us lectures of ethics or divinity, Sir Thomas Blount, 1st Baronet.

The photo a day theme for today is “4 o’clock”. Displaying an image with a plain clock whose hands
are on the 4 and 12 didn’t inspire me. So I added to the thought with something that may suggest what I was doing at that specific time of the day along with a digital display that showed the exact time that I was doing it. 

This article is a combination of three short stories about the Scioto Heritage Trail, some more history about Ohio. Recently there has been a development of the Ohio and Erie Canal Southern Descent Heritage Trail. It goes from Buckeye Lake to Portsmouth. Groveport had an event celebrating the opening of the driving trail. It was called: “Groveport Canal Day: Celebrating Our Heritage Along the Southern Descent Trail.” There was a tour with music and food offered.  The village of Lockbourne also had a “kickoff” event from the Locke Meadow Park with guided hikes along the Magnolia Trail. At this event there was a talk on the history of the Ohio & Erie Canal along with activities, games, a chili cook off and music. The “Heritage Trail is a 114 mile driving trail from Buckeye Lake. In Groveport at the Sharp’s Landing building there is a restored canal era building there with an ice house, smokehouse and bakery. In Portsmouth there are murals where the byway ties into the Ohio River Scenic Byway. From there into the Shawnee State Forest, the largest forest of the twenty in Ohio. On the trip one will pass by the boyhood home of Leonard Slye who became Roy Rogers when he moved to California. Part of this whole experience will take one through an area “rich in Native American history”. One of the three articles mentioned here is a story about the beginning construction of the canal to connect Lake Erie to the Ohio River. Work began in 1825 to construct the 308 mile canal to the Ohio River at Portsmouth. It was completed in 1832.  “The Ohio & Erie Canal Southern Descent Heritage Trail includes fourteen historic canal sites, in seven Ohio counties, along a 100 mile stretch of the Ohio & Erie Canal, from Newark to Portsmouth. This is The Scenic Scioto Heritage Trail”.

I am pulling something from the freezer for dinner. 

Joy

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