October 14, 2021 a thought for today, Tomorrow's battle is won during today's practice. Japanese Proverb

I got the bulletin out on time, on time per my own schedule. I like for the shut-in folks to have a copy of the bulletin before the Sunday service so I try to get it in the mail early on Thursday which really depends on when I am able to get the information I need to finish it. About the time I got the process finished I heard doors opening, items being moved around and  people coming in and realized today was our day to get food from the food bank for our upcoming food pantry days.

The photo challenge for yesterday was “I love this view”. I have an archive full of gorgeous views of all types and with all kinds of added moods. This is one of my favorites. 

I was gently detoured from going inside the house as I walked past a pot of  cuttings siting by the door that I made the other day from my lilac bush. I had left one set of cuttings outside on the back deck so that it would be in familiar weather conditions to acclimate to the shock of being separated from its parent, the other set is in a vase of water on my makeshift desk. As I glanced at the pot of stems on the deck, it looked like it had been visited by some curious onlookers such as a squirrel or two. So I figured I should bring it inside to save it from total destruction. That was one quick chore for the day out of the way.

A friend had stopped by the other night for a visit and had forgotten her jacket. She called an hour or so ago in search of the missing jacket. I told her it was here so she made it part of this daily walk to come in the direction of my house to recover the jacket in question. That gave us a bit of time to chat. 

After that I got a bit of a late start on my weekly laundry. So the rest of the day it will be 3 times down and 3 times up eleven slightly chipping and wearing thin linoleum covered ninety-one year-old steps to and from the basement. 

The photo theme for today is titled “I once...”, that to me indicates the best choice would be something from the archives since it indicates something that happened a while back. So I made an excursion through my photo archives to find something I would like to share. There were two one when I was about four years old and was examining the contents of an Easter basket. The other was of a time when I was in nurses training. It will take some thought about which I want to pick. The nursing one is aged but not as much as the four-year-old me so it is going to be pixilated. I have reason to think by the size of the space we were in and the number of us in the photo that I set the camera for a timed release.  

The word for today is goodness. Goodness is the only investment that never fails. Henry David Thoreau.  In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom, Euripides. Never be afraid of What is good; the good is always the road to what is true, Philip Gilbert Hamerton.  No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. Phillips Brooks. To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind. William Hazlitt.  There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted. Henry David Thoreau. Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson. Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious. Thomas Carlyle.  May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition! Daniel Boone.  Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle. Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great. Victor Hugo.   

This article talks about some recent methods that use modern technology for individual methods of transportation and its rules. There is also a short comment included at the end on a near by suburb. In the last year or so, my time estimation may be a little askew, but in the recent past electric scooters and bikes have become accessible for rent along major thoroughfares. This article is relating them to the also relatively new availability to hiking and biking trails. The question in the first part of the article is “are they (the electric scooters and bikes) allowed on these trails?”. There is a need for regulations for the usage of all mentioned”. Metro Parks prohibit motorized vehicles. The city doesn’t officially allow Electric scooters on city hiking/biking paths, “pedal-assisted bikes are OK.....if it doesn’t have pedals it’s a prohibited motorized vehicle”. Disabled people with electric “chair” scooters are exempt. So, next in the article is the question how electric bikes and scooters are used. Other rules are: “Scooters are regulated the same as bicycles under the city code, and bicycles are treated the same as automobiles.... Don’t run red lights or stop signs, and don’t ride on sidewalks. Do signal lane changes, obey speed limits and yield to pedestrians.  Further, scooters and bikes may not be parked in a way that interferes with pedestrian or vehicular traffic.” The second part of the article tells about a suburb near Grove City called Urbancrest. This location is within the former “Virginia Military District”. In 1890 one-hundred acres of this village was called the “city on a hill”. It is the highest point between the Scioto and Miami rivers. According to the article it attracted mostly black residents, people who worked on farms, others coming from the south. Many are descendants of “the Great Migration after World War I”. By the 1940s there were no paved streets and no public water and sewer service but by the 1960s those service were established. Grove City now surrounds the entire village of Urbancrest and provide necessary services. Though warehouses and industrial building also surround Urbancrest the center “remains a tree-shaded and comfortable home for its residents”. 

We are having a variety of left overs along with some creamed beef on toast for dinner. 

Joy

The grating caught it before the longer fall.