December 31, 2021 a thought for today, He would be wise who knew all things beforehand. Dutch Proverb
Printing the bulletin yesterday turned out to be a bust. When I pulled the document up and attempted to send it to the printer the menu drop down looked a little off to me but I pushed ahead to set the print instructions, pressed the print button and nothing....nada. Just for the heck of it, again...nada. I thought at first it wanted the yellow ink cartridge which had been warning us for a couple of weeks. So I changed it. Still, nothing. I ended up calling tech support. I was instructed to try printing directly from the copier....that worked. Then directly from the computer, that didn’t work. So the tech suggested reaching out remotely to the computer....I typed in the name needed to connect. Then “you have no network” message came up....there’s the problem. Our network had been down two days before but reestablished the next day so I hadn’t given that aspect a second thought. After several attempts to reboot and still nothing I decided I would have to get a copy of the document professionally printed, then return to the church to make the necessary copies. Since so much of the time had gone from the morning and things needed to be done at home I decided to go make the copy first thing in the morning (today) and get to church for the rest.
Today, once the bulletin was done I stopped at the house and picked up Sue and we headed for Mick and Kim’s for some breakfast and visiting.
Later Lowell came by the house to pick up some things. Sweet Pea was outside and wanted in when she knew he was here. She rushed in the back door bumped into her bowl of kibbles, they went flying all over the kitchen floor. She was so excited to see him. So that took a bit of time to sweep up.
The word for today is mind. ...It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. Aristotle. The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled. Plutarch. The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. John Milton. Learning never exhausts the mind. Leonardo da Vinci. Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison. The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart. St. Jerome. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert Green Ingersoll. Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. Horace. The energy of the mind is the essence of life. Aristotle. Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. Leonardo da Vinci. Measure your mind's height by the shade it casts. Robert Browning. It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot. God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. Aeschylus. The things you think about determine the quality of your mind, Marcus Aurelius.
This article shares a little bit of history about one of the busiest streets in our city.....Broad Street. At the founding of Columbus there were two main “corridors” one was High Street the other Broad Street. They met at a “100% corner” (The terms "hundred percent location", "hundred percent corner", or "peak land value intersection" may also be used) downtown. According to the article Broad Street came before High Street in 1797 with the “founding of Franklinton”. Folks on the west bank of the river wanted to be the capital but due to the flood possibility it was decided to be on the east side of the river. Then more streets were formed including High Street. I don’t understand this part: “streets and the entire grid were laid out 12 degrees off from a north-south and east-west alignment”. Trees and stumps needed to be cleared. Horse drawn carriages had to get around them which led to a wide roadway. Around the time the National Road was being built, that was in 1805, it reached Columbus in 1833 and used the part of West Broad Street up to High Street. In the early history of Columbus East Broad Street became one of the “fashionable places to live, from downtown past Franklin Park”. Gorgeous hotels and apartments like the Royal York went up. One of the houses, the Alfred Kelley mansion (1838) was torn down and replaced with the Christopher Inn in 1961. In 1857 the downtown portion of Board Street was a “lush boulevard” lined with trees. There were “medians” in the center of the street much like parks with grass and trees. In the 1930s when traffic became heavier the “streetscapes” had become a “danger” by “careless” drivers so the greenery was removed making the streets wider. In the 1970s something similar to the grassy medians was attempted but funding and growing traffic caused this attempt to be ended. Over the years the magnificent mansions that had been constructed in the beginning along East Broad street were in need of restoration which took place in the 1980s. When Columbus hosted the AmeriFlora ‘92 there was some reworking on parts of Broad Street considered. A walkable plan was put in place in 2010 and that narrowed Board Street. A redeployment of Franklinton began in the 2000s. “Streetscape improvement took place”. Tree-lined areas, painted bike lanes, two-way turns , and “grassy rainwater basins” were put in place on Broad Street west of downtown. The work in Franklinton along Broad Street will go on.
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