February 17, 2022, a thought for today People are people through other people. South African Proverb

The day started like most other Thursdays. There is my not-to-be-missed-first-thing-every-morning virtual visits. Next, save the bulletin to flash drive and off to church. The church was totally and completely quiet so, as I dropped off the bulletins, I walked the length and depth of the sanctuary alone with my Best Friend.  How very peaceful, total and pure. Then a little further into the church to dispatch the rest of the bulletins. 

One of the photo challenges for yesterday was “p is for....”. I took several shots for this theme. Before food pantry started I was searching all over the stock room for things that begin with “p”. I found several and even had help with some of the other volunteers. But in the end I chose this one of a pile of snow in the parking lot. 

I stopped at the vets to pick up Sweet Pea’s phenobarbital meds on my way home, just before a stop at White Castle then a quick scan of a couple of neighborhoods for my “left  behind/ overlooked” photos images. 

The second theme for February 16 was “pets”. These are my two latest fur babies. Sugar left  us in the summer of 2021. She still has a place in my heart and memory for her life-long love in my life. Sweet Pea is still with me and brings the peace and comfort that only a dog can bring. 

First thing when I got home was to get started on this missive to you all. Next on the list was to get started on the laundry.

I did a search for my daily photos of the day while I was out and was successful. Finishing the laundry, the evening meal and “darkroom” (Photoshop) will top off the day.  Maybe a little time for work on the newsletter.  

The first challenge in photos for today is “q is for....”. As I passing through the sanctuary this morning I remembered there was a stained glass window that had an image of St. Luke  holding a writing quill in his hand. I couldn’t remember where it was in the line of windows. So I checked each as I walked by. 

The word is pride. What is pride? A rocket that emulates the stars. William Wordsworth. Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair. Blaise Pascal. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn. Pride slays thanksgiving, but a humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow. A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves. Henry Ward Beecher.  We are rarely proud when we are alone, Voltaire.  Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves, Emily Bronte. He who imagines he can do without the world deceives himself much; but he who fancies the world cannot do without him is still more mistaken, Francois de la Rochefoucauld. To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us, Charles Caleb Coltoz. The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine, Ralph Waldo Emerson. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride, Sophocles. Humility is nothing but truth, and pride is nothing but lying, St. Vincent de Paul.  Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold, Thomas Jefferson.  If you see any thing in yourself which may make you proud, look a little further, and you will find enough to make you humble, Wellins Calcott.

The second photo for today is for an image of “round things”. As I was sitting at the desk folding the bulletins this morning, I caught sight of the tape dispenser to the right side of my stack of papers....there was the answer to my photo for this theme. 

I am interested in roof top gardens of the green space and food producing types so when I saw the title to this article I had to investigate it further. It is not about green space gardens as the ones that interest me but using space on top of buildings to conserve what little ground level space we have is of interest. Note: there are “green space gardens” on tops of high rises in Japan, London, Germany, Singapore, Italy, in Rockefeller Center in New York, and the Kaiser Roof Garden in California and, I’m sure, in many other places... Chadwick Arboretum, Franklin Park and even the Lazarus building here in Columbus. One of the downtown high rise buildings is planning a rooftop pool and terrace. The Downtown Continental Centre is a “largely (26-story) empty building” on Gay Street. The new owners are a Washington, DC based business. Some think that the building may be converted from office space to residential. The windows have been boarded up for the past two years. The hopes are to have ground floor windows put in. There will be a new elevator and stairway enclosure to reach the rooftop terrace. Plans are for the pool and terrace to take up the “southern third of the rooftop” with a glass railing all around this area. According to the article there has been a “string of changes to major Downtown office buildings” to keep tenants during the pandemic and damages to the buildings during the protests in 2021. Since those events some owners have renovated their space including the Fifth Third Center, the Chase Tower and more. 

I think I am making salmon paddies for dinner. 

Joy 

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