October 28, 2021 a thought for today, One half the world knows not how the other half lives. French Proverb
I took care of my usual Thursday morning tasks at church. The bulletin and coloring pages are copied and placed. I also took an extra bit of time to clean out the notebook of past bulletins as well as trying to return a couple of food pantry phone inquires (there were no answers on my attempts though).
Once I was finished at church I came home to make some calls about getting my car looked at. I was able to arrange to leave my car at Midas. They can’t look at it today but will look at it the first thing in the morning. I needed a way to get back home so I called to see if Lowell would be able to pick me up and bring me home. He was able to take a few minutes from work just to get me back home. Now I’ll wait to see what the diagnosis is on my car. Hopefully it isn’t something as costly at a catalytic converter, truth be told, that part would cost more than the car is worth right now, I think.
Once back at home (and without transportation) I got to work on the laundry. That will be on the agenda for the rest of the day. Along with, of course, searching for the photo of the day...this is another hard one.
The word for today is harm. There is no harm in repeating a good thing. Plato. Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. Voltaire. There is no greater harm than that of time wasted. Michelangelo. There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world. Voltaire. Since long I've held silence a remedy for harm. Aeschylus. Fashions have done more harm than revolutions. Victor Hugo. Justice... is a kind of compact not to harm or be harmed. Epicurus. The natural principle of war is to do the most harm to our enemy with the least harm to ourselves; and this of course is to be effected by stratagem. Washington Irving. May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him! Saint Ignatius. Reproof is a medicine, like mercury or opium; if it be improperly administered, it will do harm instead of good, Horace Mann. Harm seek, harm find, Aesop. Once harm has been done, even a fool understands it, Homer. What harm in learning and getting knowledge even from a sot, a pot, a fool, a mitten, or a slipper, Francois Rabelais.
This article is telling about vintage Halloween celebrations in 1921 in Columbus. On the Halloween night first talked about in the article the temperature was in the low fifties and dropping along with the beginning of a cold rain. All around Columbus, neighborhoods there were young people in all kinds of makeup and costumes trick or treating. At that time the hour and places for “beggars” was not regulated. So, according to the article, things could get out of hand with “Halloween hoodlums” stealing as well as other types of mischief. Gates were stolen, windows were soaped, and there was other kinds of meanness. In the downtown on that night, October 31, 1921, dedication of a new bridge took place. “Residents of the West Side of Columbus, from Franklinton to the Hilltop, attended with parades, parties and celebratory gatherings” A bit of a back story for this celebration is that many of the downtown bridges had been destroyed in the Flood of 1913. It took all that time, 1913 to 1921 for the new Broad Street bridge to be built. The bridge was dedicated as a memorial to soldiers and sailors. The bridge and “territory west of Sandusky street” were “roaming grounds”. There was dancing with crowds of masqueraders being formed. There was confetti, horns honking, and “everybody enjoyed the impromptu festivities”. Downtown restaurants stayed open late and hotels held parties. The Hotel Deshler’s balcony was draped with streamers. Other decorations of the special day were used as favors. In other area of the city there were Halloween parties in peoples homes. People dressed up in all kinds of costumes. Orchestras played and square dances took place. There were movies for people who were out and about but not so much interested in the other festivities. There was also live theater performances going on downtown during this time of Halloween. At the end of the article - “We Americans still have in us some of the ancestral superstition which enables us to revel in the mysterious.” .....trusting in a safe and happy Halloween to one and all.”
We will have hamburgers and pasta for dinner tonight.
Joy
shadows and trash
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