October 16, 2021 a thought for today, Yes and no rule the world. Italian Proverb

The weekend is here. I spent just a few minutes extra in bed before beginning the day. It felt like a luxury. But day light is moving along. 

On October 15 the photo theme was “I never....”. My choice for an entry was something that I feel I will never be without or I should say that I will do my best to never be without and that is a face like the one shown in my life. 

I talked to Lowell via email and we took care of some information updates of a mutual interest obligation. I also got some exciting photos via text from my grand daughter-in-law. Besides being exciting for me it took another twist by bringing to mind a gentle reminder I got yesterday from one of my online photo clubs. I had uploaded an image of myself and four of my class mates from nursing school to fit the challenge “I once...” (was a nursing student). That brought a response from a club member that our photos have to be taken by us as an individual and not by someone else. That turned the choice I made of  photos into a downer. The photo was taken years ago via a timer setting on the camera (it is the photo in my previous blog message). I set the timer so I guess it was taken by me. I don’t think the person who issued the “reminder” considered the use of a timer although some of our entries are supposed to be selfies. Anyway I will have to be more conscious of that “rule” from now on.

When I was running a couple of color items on the printer, this morning I noticed that I am running low on color ink. So I was giving some thought to going out today to find the ink I need. I realized this coming week is the week of the month that is loaded with activity all week, I had better get the errand out of the way. I headed for Office Max. To my dismay, they were out of the ink I wanted. A young male clerk with shoulder length curly hair came to help me. I told him that I wanted the packet with a black cartridge and a color cartridge in the same packet. I wanted them both to be XL meaning capable of printing more pages than the standard cartridges. He told me that in those packets with both colors the black is the only XL the color is standard. Yet on the many occasions I have bought them in the past and when ordered on line the cartridges are available with both colors described as XL. I told him that and asked him when HP had changed that. He said it has always been that way. I came home and ordered it directly from Amazon, a package with both the cartridges at XL size. I am feeling, for many reasons, that I do better ordering online than using gasoline and time to go out and not find what I need.

On the 15th I had a second photo of the day, it's title was "leaves and foliage". I visited a gorgeous huge public garden a few years back and captured this image of an abundance of trees, leaves, foliage along with areas of lights and shadows and depth. 

The word for today is gracious. And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God, Abraham Lincoln.  When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth. Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence. Johann Sebastian Bach.  If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon.  A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him, Thomas Brooks.  That gracious thing, made up of tears and light, Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism, William Makepeace Thackeray. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer, Charles Spurgeon. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness, Charles Caleb Colton.  

Today’s photo challenge is “on the week ends I....”. I spend Saturday evening volunteering at my church for a free meal that we offer the community each Saturday.   

Flytown is a place with a part of the history of growth in early Columbus. It is located just northwest of downtown Columbus “encompassing portions of the present-day Arena District and western sections of the Victorian Village”. In the 19th century it was an Irish-American community. Nationwide Boulevard was nicknamed the “Irish Broadway”. Irish, German and Welsh people immigrating to the US settled in this community that was growing in the area. The area is a 25-block of space including part of Neil Avenue east of Olentangy River and south along the Scioto River. It got its name due to the way it began. It “flew up over night” in 1865. Much of the area on part of West Goodale Street was commercial. Saloons, shops and boarding houses were part of the growth. Some of the businesses were Columbus Forge and Iron, Columbus Coop Foundry, the Simplex Foundry, Columbus Coffin Company and more. Folks not working in the factories became domestic workers, civil servants, police and fires officers along with legal, medical and education professionals. As the Irish people in the area became successful they moved out. The neighborhood became a “microcosm” of America and “melting pot” neighborhood.  Italians and eastern European folks moved in. The area was becoming the “port-of-entry” for immigrants. This article went on to tell about further movements in Flytown. In the 1910s “rural southern African Americans fleeing the Ku Klux Klan migrated to the city, settling in the neighborhood and becoming a considerably large population”. Racial tension began to flare up. Some people moved out and segregation took place. It was then hit hard by the Great Depression. In 1953 there were some plans developing to “raze” the neighborhood. To further add to the decline the Goodale Expressway, now Interstate 670, was developing in the area and added to destruction cutting through the “heart” of Flytown. Later the Expressway became part of a renewal for Flytown. Adding to the “renewal” was the Market-Mohawk downtown. Also the Thurber Village with high-rise apartment complexes came along bringing with it the Thurber Village Shopping Center, in Flytown’s place. Then Victorian Village and the Short North grew. This area is now rarely called Flytown. These additions have become an “attractive neighborhood” and now includes the Nationwide Arena and much more. The article reported that many Irish-American artifacts from the 19th century were unearthed. The area is identified with a marker at McFerson Commons in the Arena District and another marker at Goodale Park. 

I am making chili and pan fried potatoes for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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