December 19, 2021 a thought for today is A cloth is not woven from a single thread. Chinese Proverb

I set the alarm to get up this morning since we have a bible study before church. There was also a quick choir rehearsal before church since we are singing an anthem today.  

The photo a day challenge for yesterday was “sparkle”. There’s lots of that on a Christmas tree. I searched around for on of the bulbs that seemed to show the sparkle the best. 

After I went through the list of virtual visits and news headlines on the computer this morning, I got ready to leave for church. I had checked my photo a day list yesterday and saw I need a couple of photos in the next few days that I don’t have easy access to so I was on the alert for them on my way to church. I needed candy canes and Santa Clause. I found one of each as lawn decorations that will work. There were several folks at church this morning that don’t come every week. It was good to see them. 

I don’t have much on the agenda today. Next week will be another one of the whirl wind weeks that will spill over into the beginning of the following week. There are five separate pieces of materials that need completed this week. I have a running start on all but one of them. There will be a race to have those all ready for printing next Thursday. Then there are two days of food pantry, along with those are a couple of days of celebrating on my calendar. 

Hopefully a nice relatively quiet day today is what is called for to start things off. 

The word today is light. Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  Shadow owes its birth to light. John Gay. To love beauty is to see light. Victor Hugo. We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Plato.  A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. Anne Bronte. Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher. William Wordsworth. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. Margaret Fuller. Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. George Washington. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. Henry George.  The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller. John Milton.  Light is the symbol of truth. James Russell Lowell. The love of a mother is the veil of a softer light between the heart and the heavenly Father. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Fond memory brings the light of other days around me. Thomas Moore. Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit. James Russell Lowell. 

Today’s photo title is “I made this”. I decided to make my temperature blanket in sections. I have a summer one completed and the autumn one will be completed in the nest ten days. There will be two more, one for winter and one for spring. Each line of crochet represents a day and each color represents a certain temperature range. 

We have some architecturally gorgeous theaters in our down town/up town. Two are the Ohio Theater and the Palace Theater. This article is about one of the outstanding parts of the Ohio Theater. There are tid bits about the “Chandelier, the Flying horses and shooting sparks”. In June the chandelier was lowered for it’s first cleaning since 2018. The chandelier is 21 feet high, 11 feet wide and is adorned in crystals and in has 339 light bulbs. It weighs 2.5 tons and takes four days to clean. The article listed some “fun facts about the chandelier” for one workers can actually walk on it. When it is lowered to clean it is lowered to balcony level. But workers have to stand on it to reach the highest parts. One of the workers said that he “will throw my rappelling harness on, climb up onto the first set of arms and strap myself in”. According to the article in the late 2000s there were sparks coming from the chandelier. It was found that the original paper insulation had worn away, it had to be rewired to fix it. At one point, according to a story, the architect said he was unhappy with the original design. So the designer said that “he’d put everything on it .....except flying horses”. So there is an addition...horses on the arms of the chandelier. 

I’m trying to make up my mind if it will be Taco Bell for dinner or pizza (since we missed this past Friday).

Joy

 a touch of color