October 12, 2021 a thought for today, I would like to break off the flower, but the branch is too high. Japanese Proverb
I started work on the newsletter. The deadline isn’t until next Sunday for the information to get to me that the people want entered but I like to get ahead of it some to make it easier to complete.
I took a drive over to FedEx to get the prayer shawl on its way to North Carolina this morning. The sun was bright and the drive was nice. Having the window rolled down to hear the sounds of traffic and other life sounds was a reminder of being alive and thankful. The traffic was not too heavy and moved along without the interruption of rush hour thickness. The gentleman at FedEx was really helpful. He packaged the gift box into a delivery box for me and printed out the label and let me know it would/should get there on Thursday, quicker than I had expected.
I got an email with photos last evening from my grand daughter-in-law sharing with me that my great grandson had injured his toe to the point of quite a bit of blood flow. It begins two (or more) kinds of feeling. One of memories of his grandfather (my son) and his aunt and uncle who also got ugly and the painful scrapes and pains of growing and experiencing life’s lessons on the hard side of learning. Another urge brought on by those reach out and touch moments is to hug my young great grand baby and share his sadness and hurt. But it’s also the kinds of information that I want to be part of so that I can keep up with all parts of their lives that’s at all possible even though from a distance,
As I was reading my book last night, I realized that I had downloaded one that I had read some time ago. So I resisted the library online to download another book. The one I chose this time is A Gambling Man by David Baldacci. I got a good start on the first few pages. It looks like I am going to enjoy this one as I usually do with any of Mr. Baldacci’s writings. There were already some parts where I didn’t want to quit and come back to later. There were even a couple of phrases that caused me to involuntarily laugh out loud.
Chinese teas, most any kind of caffeine free teas will do. I use to be a coffee drinker but in trying to relieve a bit of the acid reflux I shied away from coffee and diet Pepsi.
On my way home I made my stop at McDonalds and a photo excursion swing by the park.
Back home I got down to the “brass tacks” of getting back to normal daily household agenda. I still have to set up my photo of the day and get some potatoes on to cook.
The word for today is gift. God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well. Voltaire. Love the giver more than the gift. Brigham Young. It is not from your own goods that you give to the beggar; it is a portion of his own that you are restoring to him. The Earth belongs to all. So you are paying back a debt and think you are making a gift to which you are not bound. Saint Ambrose. Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection. Pindar. The manner of giving is worth more than the gift. Pierre Corneille. Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth. Horace. We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God. Blaise Pascal. I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes from within. Plautus. Reason is God's crowning gift to man. Sophocles. The gift without the giver is rare, James Russell Lowell. There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers, Seneca the Younger.
This article is related to the one in my last blog about peaceful and a sort of mysterious kinds of scenery in our city. It covers some of our “Glorious Ravine Neighborhoods”. One of the people discussing the ravines in the area talked about the Overbrook Ravine remembering the wild landscape, steep terrain, woods and the Adena Brook. He remembered sledding on the edge of Indian Springs Gold Course near the ravine. Later he encountered the steep streets as he delivered the Columbus Citizen newspaper. In the 1910s there were cabins in this ravine and began to change in 1926. There are four ravines from the Ohio State University’s main campus through Clintonville. Coming from downtown the first will be Iuka Ravine. Here there are student rental properties as well as private homes. A few miles north is Glen Echo Ravine. The article related the Glen Echo began the transition between “old North Columbus and....Clintonville....in 1909". Here there are “craftsman housing ....and American foursquares and other styles of the era”. Next come the Walhalla Road moving into the Walhalla Ravine. In an area of the ravines is a section where it feels like “rural living in the middle of the city”. There is a spot where trees that have fallen don’t get removed to be more natural for wildlife. One lady mentioned in the article didn’t know about the ravines until she was searching for a home to buy. She found one and now lives where in one of the ravines and now, from here floor-to-ceiling windows, she “has a wooded view of the ravine below......”. It’s wild because you feel like you’re in a different world”. She also mentioned that as she is working she can glance out the window to see an animal passing by. She said getting to the house in the winter can be a bit of a problem. The article related in a couple of areas where people who had lived in one of the ravines and then moved away longed to go back to live there again. And many who live there now say the will never leave.
I am having Navy bean soup from the freezer and “Crash Hot Potatoes” for dinner.
Joy
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