March 3, 2022 a thought for today, A hammer breaks glass, but also forms steel. Everything cannot be hung on one nail. Russian Proverb

Thursdays are pretty much set to a schedule. The church printing for the bulletin normally happens on Thursday, at home the weekly laundry is on the agenda. So far that’s the way this Thursday is going.  I had a bit of an extra chore at the church on this Thursday though. The memory card for the streaming camera was full so I archived the files and cleared the card for new files. 

March 2's first photo of the day was “something in your kitchen”. Like most kitchens there are a multitude of things I could have selected. I chose to show the side of my refrigerator where I have posted my favorite artists work (and the artists are Lexie and Drew Rector). 

While I was at church, I had another chance to chat with Chris. He seems eager to learn as much as he can about our church and it’s history. It’s always good to share those stories.

When I left church, I went on a short photo search exhibition. I find that I see more when I am looking for specific photo ideas than I would observe otherwise. It’s kind of exciting. It’s information gathering, information about life and it’s many twists and outlooks. Maybe just a peek into the way other people live. Also seeing unexpected sights and overlooked spaces, sights and signs. It’s fun. 

The second photo of the day your yesterday was “musical”. There’s not much “musical” in my house but there are at the church....this is one of the several keyboards to be found throughout the church. 

We are having another sunny day though still on the “coolish” side. According to the weather predictions we will be having even more spring like temps toward the end of this week. 

Today’s first photo of the day theme is “skyline”. There is a tiny look at our “downtown” as we head east on Broad Street but after I pulled the image I shot up in the darkroom (Photoshop) it was to “busy” in the foreground so I chose this one at a busy intersection on Broad Street. 

Kathy popped in for a visit. I had to chat with her while I worked on getting dinner ready. I was on a sort of time schedule since I needed to get the laundry done before I got ready for tonight’s meeting.

 

The word for today is reflection. A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Charles Dickens. It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment. Marcus Tullius Cicero. The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William Makepeace Thackeray. Remembrance and reflection how allied. What thin partitions divides sense from thought. Alexander Pope. There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord. Thomas Paine.  Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt. Henri Frederic Amiel. There is no one, who possesses intelligence and uses reflection, who does not understand that it is one Being who both created all things and governs them with the same energy by which He created them. Lactantius.  Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards, Soren Kierkegaard. All that we are is the result of what we have thought, Buddha.

The second photo challenge for today is “bicycle/motorcycle”. As I was cruising down Broad Street, I saw a bicycle rider on the other side of the street but I was driving and things moved quickly not ten seconds later there was another one headed in the other direction....I could have turned and followed them but I would most likely have lost them. I drove through an apartment complex near my home and discovered a bicycle propped against the house and three separate motorcycles. I liked this one best. The background was distracting so I separated the bike from the back ground and used a motion filter to give a cleaner view of the bike.

This article looked like an interesting project for a learning experience in a local public school. There is a retention pond behind an elementary school in London Ohio. There are plans to use this space for projects leading to learning experiences for the students. They have received a grant thanks to Battelle For Kids to “expand its science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning projects”. They will buy the tools they need to complete several kinds of experiments. There will be experiments in bird counts, testing water samples and studying types of wildlife. This along with the Wild School by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources “helps students appreciate wildlife a little more in their community”. They hope to start the project this spring. Eventually they would like to have a boardwalk into the pond with seating on the shore line. As a side note and to show the extent of one of the teacher’s interest in the children’s futures, one of these teachers, spent some time at Parris Island with the Marine Corps where she hoped to learn how to help students make decisions about military pursuits years later after high school. 

I am making Salisbury steak and mashed potatoes for dinner. 

Joy

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