March 15, 2022 a thought for today, Truth suffers but never perishes. Mexican Proverb

This has been another of those ups and downs days. It was up in that I got to spend some precious time with my great grand son and then a little more time holding and snuggling with his brother. 

The first photo of the day for March 14 was “something you’ve never photographed”. I was looking for an image to fit this assignment as I was leaving the store. This is what I came up with. The bicycle chained to a stop sign with a grocery cart wopperjawed on the curb beside it. My observation wasn’t to keen when I captured the image....I hadn’t noticed the walking cane hanging on the cart handle until I was in Photoshop with it. 

The “downs” were a couple of incidents with loving family where there was some struggle to have a “meeting of the minds” so to speak. Those times pass, thankfully, but the journey through them to the other side can be a painful part.... maybe the learning part too....Another pick me up for today in this “down” period was the memory of a video visit from two of my other great grand children last night. 

The second photo for the 14th was “technology”. I have a lot of that around the house so I snagged the quickest I could find....the Spectrum power box with all it’s lights and my laser jet printer beside it. 

I had some updates to make to the annual report. I thought it was done but someone else noted a couple of things that would make points a little clearer. Some of the data is cut and paste from other people so I don’t take it upon myself to make those corrections. 

I also finished the bulletin. It looks like I might be ahead of the game by a day or so. Hopefully there are no hangups when it comes time to do the final printing. 

The first photo challenge for today is a “play ground”. As I was on my way home from the grocery store, I went by the local park where there are two major play areas and then by a small day care park where there is another park with smaller play equipment. 

The sun is out nice and bright. It was a bit chilly when we left the house this morning but has warmed up pleasantly. 

The word is right. Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. Abraham Lincoln. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon. When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right. Victor Hugo.  Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it. William Penn. If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it. Marcus Aurelius.  It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. Voltaire.  Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all. Hypatia.  Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Henry Ward Beecher. To see the right and not to do it is cowardice. Confucius. It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. True independence and freedom can only exist in doing what's right. Brigham Young.  Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins. Thomas Aquinas.  A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. Thomas Paine. When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder. Lao Tzu. 

The second photo for today is “made of paper”. Years ago one of my hobbies was paper quilling. This

is one of the snowflake ornaments I made. I haven’t taken up the quilling tool for quite a while now.  

I have visited the park in this story a few times. It’s an interesting place and this is an interesting point of view. The title to the article reads “What are the three monoliths near Scioto Audubon Metro Park?” Before I read the article beyond the title I wondered what “monoliths” could they be referring to. Apparently as a person is heading east on I-70 in Columbus there is a spot where three “enormous concrete pillars sticking out of the ground” are visible. These same “pillars” can be seen behind a chainlink fence at the northern edge of the park. After some investigation by “Curious Cbus” it was discovered that the pillars are “part of an art installation called ‘Needles of Stone’”. They were constructed in 1989 at the Furnace Street electrical substation by three Ohio State University Landscape Architecture students working with The Columbus Division of Power. They are 16-foot monoliths. According to the article the inspiration came from “a school of thought that the earth radiates energy”. It also mentioned that prehistoric people were sensitive to that phenomenon. Further on in the article it stated that in the mid-1800s megaliths like Sonehenge and Easter Island were part of that theory. The belief is that stones placed in a certain way can “harness energy” from inside the earth. The OSU students were assigned to revitalize an area of “industrial decay”. This area is on Whittier Street where the Scioto Audubon Metro Park would be built “two decades later”. Leading to the assignment ideas of ancient cultures as related to landscapes were brought to the discussion. That is where the Stonehenge forms were considered. The plans for the installation of the “Needles of Stone” have been lost so there is an “air of mystery” about why and how they were built. The money available was reportedly limited so that may be “why there were only three and in the form of a triangle”. I particularly like the last paragraph that mentions are the monuments a tribute to ancient clotures or are the “Needles of Stone” Columbus’s own Stonehenge giving the area around the power substation a part of that bit of mystery. 

This is another of those days when I have a third photo to capture. This one is “simply minimalist”. I chose to share with you a shot I made on Sunday of one of the lights in our sanctuary at church.

I think we will have left overs for dinner tonight. 

Joy

have you happened to pass by something like this part of the city....