May 4, 2022 a thought for today, The man who comes with a talk about others has himself an ax to grind. Chinese Proverb

I am caught up with my print material for tomorrow so now I am making an early start on the newsletter. It isn’t due for a couple of weeks but it never hurts to get ahead of things when I have the time.

The photo of the day for yesterday is “free choice”. This is a neighbor’s porch. I love the colors and the lines and shapes along with the relaxing feelings. 

Another update on the car search saga, I seem to be making small steps. I have tried to reach the insurance company again and am waiting for some kind of response that may never come. I have checked on some financing options. All of that while I am still searching every day. I think I have missed two that would have suited me fine. One seemed to be too expensive for my pocketbook. I missed the other because I didn’t have a way to get to the dealer to take a personal look at it. I saw it listed on one day but didn’t have a ride that day, checked the next day and it was gone. I will keep looking. 

The weather is on the “sad” side, overcast. But the trees are coming alive and flowers are dotting spots in the yard, even violets among the dandelions. 

I put ground beef out to make meatballs for Sweet Peas treats. Then while I was searching in the freezer for the vegetables I use in them I found a container that I had missed. I have to go on making the meat balls anyway since the meat is thawed. 

The word today is teach. Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad, Thomas Paine. I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. Henry David Thoreau.  Trials teach us what we are; they dig up the soil, and let us see what we are made of. Charles Spurgeon.   Much learning does not teach understanding. Heraclitus. The man (or woman) who can make hard things easy is the educator, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Every truth has four corners: as a teacher I give you one corner, and it is for you to find the other three, Confucius. To teach is to learn twice over, Joseph Joubert. Teaching is the highest form of understanding, Aristotle.  Teaching is of more importance than urging, Martin Luther. None can teach admirably if not loving his task, Amos Bronson Alcott.  Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress, Maimonides.  Those who don't know must learn from those who do,  Plato. 

The photo of the day for today is “ trees”. I have many images of trees especially at the Westgate Park near my house. But I like the configuration of these outside my front door. 

More history about Columbus. This one is about the river that flowed through. It has changed its route. Parts of it were moved when Route 315 was built. It was rerouted at the I-270 Interchange south of the Antrim Park somewhere around the 1960s. A map was found that shows that the just below the Antrim Park the Olentangy turns west then south and then east before moving on the southerly course. Another map from 1902 shows there is a difference. Through some investigation that there is a photographer who canoes along that area, has for thirty years and is familiar with it. He said "Right there where 315 comes in, just south of Antrim Park, that part of the river, I would strongly suspect, was either straightened out or moved over to put in 315." At the time the change was made several acres of wetlands were filled in to make 315. The bend that was in the river is gone along with another farther north. In some of the old maps it shows that the interchange that was taken out at 270 there was a horseshoe or a bend that has been straightened out on the old maps. Further research at the Ohio State University’s architecture library confirmed that nearly twenty two acres of wetland were lost and the river was shortened from 2,300 feet “of natural channel” to 1,600 feet “of man-made channel”. 

We are having baked spaghetti and corn casserole for dinner tonight. 

Joy

signs of wear and tear