March 23, 2022 a thought for today, Experience runs a valuable school, but fools learn in no other. Italian Proverb
I had another of the wonderful video calls from my great grand children last night. They are in their new home now and liked showing me around the house. It was a fun adventure. We go to each room viewing them through the quickly moving cell phone camera. One or the other of the kids is telling me what I am seeing as we cruise through the rooms. Some of the rooms are tilted to the right and some to the left. The ceilings and floors came be interesting too. It was the highlight of the day for me.
Another interesting thing from yesterday...my Spectrum is working again. I had three earlier calls of when they were scheduled to get here...2 - 3 o’clock. I got home from church at 1:45 and they were done and leaving. Sue had let them in. They completely rearranged where the cabling for all units in the house were located....not outside where the cut cable was lying on the ground but to the basement of the house. It all appeared more professional to me than our last experience.
Before and after food pantry I put the finishing touches on the bulletin and on the newsletter. This morning after virtual visits I sent them out to a few on email. Tomorrow will be printing day. And Friday finishing day.
Food pantry was busier than it has been in a while. That’s always good news for us. We reach more people that way. We have a couple of our regular visitors who are or have lost their living quarters due to higher rent fees. Some are some are being hit with a pretty heavy blow on their living conditions. I wish we could help with all even more than we do. Taking care of all their needs are beyond our reach. We do a very good job with what we have.
I have had an adventure uploading a new book. I uploaded John Grisham’s “Rogue Lawyer”. I read a few chapters before I decided it wasn’t for me. It seems to be written in the first person style. I prefer a wider description or view of happenings. Then I uploaded James Patterson’s “The Family Lawyer”. After I got about a third of the way through, I found I hadn’t checked on the layout of the book very well before uploaded....it is one with a couple of short stories rather than one full book of one story. Anyway the first story was good and I am into the second story now.
I have to get my daily activities done on the early side since I have a literary club meeting a little after noon.
The word for today is sad. Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. Rumi. For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. John Greenleaf Whittier. Tears come from the heart and not from the brain. Leonardo da Vinci. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau. Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Sadness flies away on the wings of time. Jean de La Fontaine. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. William Wordsworth. In this world, full often, our joys are only the tender shadows which our sorrows cast. Henry Ward Beecher. In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and to the young, it comes with bitterest agony because it takes them unawares. I have had experience enough to know what I say. Abraham Lincoln. I pity my brother Ferdinand, knowing by my own feelings how sad a thing it is to live apart from one's family. Marie Antoinette. He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise. Voltaire. You cannot prevent the birds of sadness from passing over your head, but you can prevent their making a nest in your hair, Chinese Proverbs.
This article tells of a bit of history about one of the oldest hospitals in Columbus and it’s founder Dr. Baldwin. The hospital in question is Grant Hospital in the downtown area. It is the only hospital in the downtown area and fills a bull city block bounded by Grant Avenue, Sixth, State and Town streets. I learned from this article that a man named Lyne Starling bought land that is now Downtown Columbus in the 19th century. He took part in the establishment of the Starling Medical College and St. Francis Hospital in 1849. They were located at State and Sixth streets as a teaching and patient care center. A Dr. Baldwin built Grant hospital in 1900. Oh....Grant was named for “Ohio native Ulysses S. Grant”. Dr. Baldwin received her bachelor’s degree at Oberlin College and medical degree from the Philadelphia medical college. He moved to Columbus in a home on East Town Street. His home at that location later became the O’Shaughnessy Co. funeral home. Dr. Baldwin didn’t trust the blood transfusion preformed at the time in history because blood types were not known then, and the noted the dangers of nitrous oxide as an anesthetic, also the “use of medications that had not been proven effective”. The original Grant hospital was east of St. Francis. It was a four-story brick building with open porches for fresh air to help healing. The hospital grew as the city grew and eventually filled the city block. In 1968 there was an addition to the hospital called the Baldwin Tower and was used as a school of nursing. It was demolished in 2004 as the hospital expanded.
I need to make something quick and easy for dinner. I think it will be creamed beef on toast.
Joy
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