May 12, 2022 a thought for today, Lying is the disease and truth is the cure. Arabic Proverb

This is the usual bulletin printing morning. It wasn’t the usual “just me and Chris” in the church though. There were plumbers there working on a stopped up drain and our food pantry delivery was today with a huge load of food for our clients. Lots of activity. 

The photo of the day for May 11 was “something small”. I remembered some tiny little violets growing in the lawn with the dandelions. When I went out looking of them they had been mowed away but I found this tiny yellow weed flower that worked for the image.  

I treated Chris to a couple of White Castles again for all his trips picking me up and bringing me home while I wait to find the car that is out there waiting for me at my maximum price figure.... not so easy to find with my required options. All of this includes the hopes of hearing from the insurance company...that, after some further consideration of the facts of the matter, they may have seen a the normal “other” (and more factual) side to the story. This is a most likely a surreal happening, but I can hope. 

For my photo group in Canada I chose this one that I took at the historical village, a lone chair sitting with a delicate curtain at the window in the background. 

Once I got home, I started the laundry.....another of my typical Thursday chores. I am going to talk to a lady this afternoon about doing a couple of cleaning chores for me that my age has caused a decline in my capabilities. We’ll see if it is worth the cost after an estimate. I would like to get the laundry as close to done as I can and get some dinner supplies laid out. Soooo....back to work. 

The photo a day for today is “in nature”. I found this lonely daffodil with it’s natural shadow against the side of the garage.

Todays word(s), try/trials.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of, Charles Spurgeon. We are always on the anvil; by trials God is shaping us for higher things, Henry Ward Beecher.  Adversity is the first path to truth, Lord Byron. In heaven we shall see that we had not one trial too many, Charles Spurgeon. If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment, Henry David Thoreau. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle.  By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning. Lao Tzu.  All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte. Do not wish to be anything but what you are, and try to be that perfectly. Saint Francis de Sales. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine, Saint Augustine. Hug the shore; let others try the deep. Virgil. What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. Henry David Thoreau. I read, I study, I examine, I listen, I think, and out of all that I try to form an idea into which I put as much common sense as I can. Marquis de Lafayette. It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  

This one for my Canada group for today. I found the little fellow enjoying the solitude of the river. This one is from my archives. I made this image as I was walking across the Broad Street bridge from
parking my car at the Vets Memorial building to my job at the Federal Court Building just shortly before I retired. 

Here is some more history about Columbus and its people. This one is about the name “McDowell”. There is a street in Columbus called McDowell Street, one of the longest in Franklinton. Several McDowll’s lived in Columbus some were famous some not so much. One called John rode with William Henry Harrison in Canada in defeating the British. Another named Abram who marched with John Campbell who fought in the dead of winter and burned Native American villages in Indiana. Abram had a son named Irvin who was the most famous of the McDowells. The family moved from Franlinton across the river to the new state capital Columbus. The family lived in a huge home at Spring and Front streets. Abram was the 15th mayor of Columbus. The McDowell children went to private schools in Columbus.  Irvin was sent to college in Troyes, France. From there he went  to West Point and graduated as a second lieutenant. Next he became a tactics instructor then a Major. Eventually he was promoted to Brigadier General. Eventually he served in a variety of commands and became the commander of the Department of the Pacific. He designed a military facility at the Presido in San Francisco. 

I think it is going to be hot dogs/coney’s  and mac and cheese for dinner tonight.  

Joy