November 17, 2021 a thought for today, A child's words have no guile. Chinese  Proverb

I have packed a whole lot of work into just a few hours so far today. I finished the bulletin and sent it to readers. I made the coloring pages, the insert for our anthem this week and the envelopes for shut ins. Then I compiled the secretary’s report for the literary meeting I will be attending in an hour. 

Yesterday’s theme was “one colour”. It can be a bit of a challenge to find an image with one color without getting something of a background with a different color. I shot this one the day before at the same time that I was looking for a floral theme. 

I got another call from my great grand kids last night. They gave lots of information. It always bring me a “lightness”.....a touch with pure happiness and joy of life. 

......I’m back from the literary club group. We had a nice gathering. There were a couple of more members there than there were at the last meeting. It seems almost back to normal as far as the number of ladies at the meeting. The differences are the sadness of the ones we have lost and then there is the new meeting place. It is a different atmosphere. The church where we met in the past had comfortable over stuffed seating and a kitchenette, a piano in the room and a homey kind of feel. The library where we are meeting now is gorgeous but lacks the warm cozy feeling. It is more “commercial”. It is bright and brand new. We are surrounded with books. There are pros and cons for both. 

The word for today (and to explore) is importance.   It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. Thomas Huxley.  Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. James A. Garfield.  All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken, Luc de Clapiers.  The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow, Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie, 1st Baronet. The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble. Blaise Pascal. The direction in which   education starts a man will determine his future life, Plato. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest, Benjamin Franklin.  Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity, Aristotle.   

The photo challenge for today was “two colors”. Again a bit of a challenge but a little easier for me than one color. I also want to include something else of interest other than the colors. I like some lines, shapes, forms, patterns included.  

It interesting to see little parts of the history of Ohio and Columbus. This article is about a neighboring suburb, Bexley. According to the article Bexley grew around the Trinity Lutheran Seminary. It was founded in 1908 and became a city in 1932. It is “a 2.5-square-mile area with more than 4,000 households”. Bexley flourished while to the west and on the East and South sides credit became more “restricted”. These communities “struggled to develop”. When Interstate 70 went in the “divide” in the communities grew. As it happened, during the construction of I-70 the peculiar thing that happened was that it went to the south of Bexley and went through the East Side. According to the article someone or ones “intentionally” allowed that to take place. A neighborhood damaged the most by this action was “Hanford Village, a small community of African-American home owners”. This primarily military veterans neighborhood survived and has become placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Moving on, Bexley is thriving having one of the best public school districts in the state along with private schools. The annual income of the Bexley population is twice the average income of other Columbus families. On in the article it says that there are park views, and mansions in Bexley but also contains middle-class housing and low-income housing as it is becoming more diverse. Also mentioned that “Bexley still looks like an island. 

We will be having tuna helper for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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