January 16, 2022 thought for today, When the word is out, it belongs to another. German Proverb

The sermon today triggered a thought I have been tossing around for quite awhile. I need to give some more thought to the differences in the meaning of truth and fact. Many times I have found myself stupidly, perhaps, thinking truth and fact as synonymous or near to synonymous. It’s been said that the truth on a particular subject or happening can be seen one way by one person and another way by another person. Maybe my problem is separating spiritual truth from human truth. I think I try to find what might be the spiritual truth in a “human related fact”.  Maybe I need to give it a lot more thought and research. So the sermon made a point.....it made me think.

The photo challenge for January 15 was “heck yes!”. In the kind of weather we are having right now ..... heck yes to a fur coast, ear muffs and gloves. 

I don’t want to put too much excitement into this but....my back seems to be a little better today. I was able to get to and volunteer at the HM3 free meal last night without too much pain or difficulty walking. It seemed to get me through for today too. Maybe the worst is over for this episode. I am thinking my diagnosed osteoporosis has something to do with this.

So....this being Sunday it is my day of contemplating and regenerating for whatever is to come. Side note: my thinking seems to be a bit foggy today. 

I had a second photo of the day today, its title is “entitled”
(meaning for us, the photo must somehow reflect the title of a book). The title for mine is "shadow".

The word today is patience. Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish. John Quincy Adams. A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else. George Savile. Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet. Jean-Jacques Rousseau. Come what may, all bad fortune is to be conquered by endurance. Virgil.  Patience is the best remedy for every trouble. Plautus.  Patience is the art of hoping. Luc de Clapiers.  Wise to resolve, and patient to perform. Homer.  Abused patience turns to fury. Thomas Fuller.  To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Thomas Aquinas. Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown. Soren Kierkegaard. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Hope is patience with the lamp lit. Tertullian.  I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Lao Tzu.   

Today’s photo title is “self care”. One of the many ways of self care is the shower/bathtub and all it paraphernalia.

I like the finding of reason and beauty in “vintage.....history” and don’t like to see it destroyed when there is value to its existence. I am finding something of that nature in this article. The title reads: “A lack of foresight may have robbed Columbus of a vibrant neighborhood”. It’s referring to the area between Mound and Fulton streets moving from downtown and to “serve as utterly forgettable highway ramps”. There were “nonprofit” offices, parking lots, light industry and a left behind old neighborhood along with some “shuttered” storefronts. Now Mound Street has heavy highway traffic and leads to a westbound off ramp from I-70 to the courthouse. Fulton Street use to be one way westbound and is now eastbound to the on ramp to I-70. The project that changed this neighborhood was supposed to cost $500, that expense turned to $1.4 billion. The plan was to reduce crashes and make lane changes easier. During the planning sessions there were discussions about reducing long distance traffic with the interchange and lead to local transit improvements as well as pedestrian and bicycle space. Population growth in the downtown and its neighborhoods would reduce local traffic. The suggestion was to think ahead for future traffic growth.  One consideration was rerouting I-70 and digging a tunnel under or a deck over the current roadway. There were plans for connecting Downtown with neighbors to the east and south. There were some improvements to the east but not to the south of I-70. During the planning it was decided that it makes the city “less attractive” and less enjoyable to people living in the city. The article mentioned that according to some studies “homes on a prominent corridor, converted to busy commuter thoroughfares ....  devalue the surrounding property”. In developing city traffic the infrastructure has to be maintained and “nurture the neighborhoods”. To conclude, according to the author of the article, Mound and Fulton streets “looked forlorn yet full of possibilities, a decade ago”.  

I think it’s going to be Taco Bell for dinner tonight. Then wait to see how much snow we will be getting tonight. 

Joy

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