April 8, 2022 a thought for today, Truth comes back where she has once visited. English Proverb
I have a few days, even a week that I don’t have a deadline on material for church. So I plan to be on the lazy side.
On April 7 one of the photo a day themes was “raw”. I have this gorgeous image of a fresh fruit salad in my archive. It seemed like a prefect choice for this assignment.
I got a much needed hair cut today. Every six weeks or so it begins to look like I am wearing something on the order of a small bearskin hat of the English Guard style. I am blessed with a healthy and thick head of hair. It is long earned pure white cover now.
church.
I had ordered a refill, and was told it would be ready the next day, of one of my prescriptions last week and attempted to pick it up when Sue and I went to the grocery store Wednesday. When I went to the pharmacy counter they said there was no order for the mediation. When I got home I reordered and to be sure there would be an order to fill I contacted my doctor to request my doctor contact the pharmacy and ok the refill. The pharmacy was my stop after the hair cut....it was ready this time.
This Palm Sunday after church I have been invited to spend time at lunch with one of my three military families. I don’t see them too often so this is a treat, especially the kids that I am privileged to see grow through the technology of today and quick visits like this.
The word is should. Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning. Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The scars of others should teach us caution. St. Jerome. There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot. Plato. The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. Marcus Tullius Cicero. It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive, Emily Bronte. If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. If the Sun and Moon should ever doubt, they'd immediately go out. William Blake. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. Socrates. Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope. Epictetus. No one should be ashamed to admit he is wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope. The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. Thomas Carlyle. If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old. James A. Garfield. We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance. Aesop.
remembered I had a capture in my archives of some birds on a wooden preach with a tree back ground.
I can be naïve about some, albeit many things, and this is one. I never knew there was a China Town in Columbus Ohio. Here is an article telling about the subject. I know about the Italian and German Villages in Columbus but hadn’t ever thought about a Chinese area. According to the article there isn’t an actual Chinese or Asian Village but we celebrate the Asian community here with one of the largest Asian Festivals in the country. There were “100,000 attendees and 16 Asian communities represented” at the last festival. The community is quite “diverse” in Columbus but not localized. One professor of history wrote that “Columbus lacks the essential ingredients that have historically created a Chinatown”. In this summary it was suggested that one thing that seems to be common in a location for a “Chinatown” is a location near a coastal access. The San Francisco Chinatown was formed in the mid 1800s when there was a “large influx of Chinese immigrants seeking fortune during the California Gold Rush” the worked as “farmhands and laborers building the Transcontinental Railroad”. Due to the Exclusion Act there was a racial prejudice through policies “prohibiting Chinese immigrants from living beyond certain blocks of the city” so Chinatowns were formed. Because Columbus is “a landlocked city” there was a large enough number of Chinese in the area to form a Chinatown. According to the article in the 20th century census data there were “just eight individuals of Chinese descent living in Columbus in 1880". The population increased by 1920. The laundry businesses seemed to be the occupation for the early Chinese in Columbus. There two areas of business that grew in the community was restaurants and grocery stores. Here are facts about the community, in 1903 the first tea house was open, in 1904 the first Chinese restaurant and in 1905 the first recorded Chinese baby was born. The biggest growth in population was in the mid to late 20the century. The population was spread out and early diverse people to include people from India and Southeast Asia and later more. The fist Asian Festival in Columbus was in 1995. I learned from the article that there is a potential Asian hub in the Japan Marketplace in the Kenny Center at the corner of Kenny and Old Henderson Roads. In 2014 “Columbus Business First reported that Central Ohio had the largest number of Japanese nationals living in the state”. In 1987 there an effort to purchase four acres of land in Hilliard to make space for an Asiatown of sorts that would include housing, community centers, supermarkets and salons, a nursing home but never came about due to lack of funding. The article concluded with “There may not be a physical representation of a Chinatown or Asian Plaza, but Columbus claims a strong Asian cultural community....work together so harmoniously and so well like a big family. I don’t see this happening anywhere else.”
Pizza!!
Joy
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