February 1, 2022 a thought for today, They put the nightingale into a golden cage, yet it still craved for its home. Turkish Proverb

My bed feels good especially on these cold mornings but I made myself get up at eight o’clock. I have a list of little things I would like to accomplish today. 

One of the photos for tomorrow was titled “I need to do this....”. Dishes! My sink needed cleared out. Right after I shot made this image and loaded the dishwasher. 

I got the information I needed to finish the bulletin. We are having an infant baptism this week at church. The pastor wanted a special insert to the bulletin with the baptism information on it. He sent me that information yesterday so I spent a good part of the morning working on that. Today he sent the rest for the standard bulletin. 

I have a winter coat that I like to wear but lately it has so much dog hair on it that it needs cleaned. It isn’t soiled but the hair needs to come off.  We last the only dry cleaners we had close by a year ago. A few weeks ago I ordered some of the Woolite that can be used to dry clean in a dryer so I tried that a little while ago. It got some of the hair off but not all of it so I am going to have to find a brush or some other method to get the rest off. 

The second photo for January 31 was “long road....”. This was shot on a trip from my house along the

country side to Mt. Sterling.

One of my great grand daughter’s is having a birthday this week so I needed to get something ordered and sent to her.  

I got two more things checked off of that ‘list of little things’. I noticed that there seems to be some mold beginning to grow on the soil of one of the house plants so I did some research to find how to stop that. Then the last thing for today....there were a couple of typos on the newsletter that I uploaded to our web page so I made those change and finished the re-upload.

One of the photo challenges for today is “a is for....”. One fit for that title is aloe vera .  

The word for today is person.  A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it. Jean de La Fontaine.  Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. Aristotle. I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll. A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. Henry Ward Beecher. Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. Thomas Jefferson. Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being. Thomas Carlyle. Difficulties are things that show a person what they are. Epictetus.  A person's life persuades better than his word. Aristotle.  Be as you wish to seem. Socrates. Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public. Epictetus. 

The second photo theme for today is “plane”. This is from my archives taken on a flight from Columbus to Texas and is a shot from the inside of an airplane looking toward the clouds below my seat. 

This article is about some new housing in Columbus but not that of remodeling. It is a novel of idea of living quarters that will help a portion of our society who needs a helping hand. According to the article there is a local attorney who is “leading an effort to build a tiny home village on the Southeast side of Columbus”. This is an effort to provide homes for the homeless at nominal rent and allow them time to find jobs, provide independent living and change their lives. He would like for there to be 42 tiny homes neat the Eastland Mall. Along with the tiny, individual homes in the “village” there would be a community center, where they could get together and where interviews for jobs, meetings with case workers and other helpful projects could be held. The home would be 420 square feet with a kitchen and bathroom. There would be a community garden and the community center. The projected plan is for them to stay about 18 months with hope they could live independently after that. There would be a “screening” process for people selected to live in these houses for “security and upkeep concerns”.  The plan is to raise private funding along with public assistance in the project. According to the article that among others, Mount Carmel Health System “fully intends to be an active partner”. Further in the article it mentions that “It offers a lot of hope for people looking to make their lives better.” One of the persons approached to help with the project said that three things ‘attracted’ is interest, 1) the need, 2) the innovative “bent”, 3) adding money of their own......and is a welcome approach to homelessness. There are other places in the Unites States trying similar programs, one in Austin, Texas and another in Kansas City. In one trial area 85% of folks who have progressed to leaving the community” now live independently which makes this twice the national average of homeless transition efforts”. One crucial part of the project is for case managers to work with it “day-in and day-out”. The case managers approach subjects like “barriers to work, substance abuse...behavioral health access and transportation”. 

I think it will be hamburgers and mac and cheese for dinner. 

Joy

since yesterday was the last day of January I am showing my composite of the photos a day from one of my groups for the month of January 2022.