June 27, 2022 a thought for today, The ax forgets but the cut log does not. African Proverb

I have a “day off” today, nothing pressing on the agenda. That doesn’t mean there’s not a to-do list....just one with no deadline....just yet. I did get a running start on the bulletin and one on touching up parts of the newsletter while I wait for the two last minute “entries”. These are the ones that are the last minute every time without fail. 

The upload for yesterday to the month of gratitude group is the image of the lady I took through my screened window as she was leaving a summer garage sale. I am grateful for the carnival feel of these-block long yard sales in the early summer. 

We had a celebrate life service yesterday that was perfect for that kind of situation. There were people sharing the experiences they had with the beloved person. The church was full of love and good memories. It felt good to have all the life in the church. Two of my favorite, make that three, ministers were there. It was good to be in their mist. 

We are having a gorgeous summer day. The heat is not overpowering even though the sun is bright. The wind chimes sound sooo good. The “vacationing” house plants are soaking up this weather. 

The second photo upload for yesterday was for a pop up challenge with the theme of glass. I like the colors in the stained glass window and took this photo as I was waiting for church to begin. 

I finished a very long book, one of Ken Follett’s. It was Edge of Eternity. It was very good but took me quite a while to read it. I had to renew it since I didn’t finish it in the 21 days on the first loan. I love his writing. This one, though, was too “modern” for me. I like this type of historical fiction more in the time period of 1800s or early 1900s. This one is more in the 1960s and 70s. Now I am reading Fear No Evil by James Patterson. 

I may have mentioned somewhere earlier that I was crocheting a “temperature” blanket. Each row is a color representing the weather temperature for the day.  I ended up making it in four sections, July thru Sept, Oct.-Dec, Jan-March and this last one April thru June. In four days I will have finished it!! One whole year not missing a day working on the blanket. It is quite colorful, red to blues, oranges and greens. 

The photo upload for today in the month of gratitude theme is this one of a family dinner. I added a painterly filter to give it an old time look. 

The word for today is answers. At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want, Lao Tzu. The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer, Henry David Thoreau.  A wise man's question contains half the answer, Solomon Ibn Gabirol. Nature puts no question and answers none which we mortals ask. She has long ago taken her resolution. Henry David Thoreau. The soul answers never by words, but by the thing itself that is inquired after, Ralph Waldo Emerson. A seeming ignorance is very often a most necessary part of worldly knowledge. It is, for instance, commonly advisable to seem ignorant of what people offer to tell you; and when they say, Have not you heard of such a thing? to answer No, and to let them go on, though you know it already, Lord Chesterfield. Delayed answers to prayer are not only trials of faith; they also give us opportunities to honor God through our steadfast confidence in Him, even when facing the apparent denial of our request, Charles Spurgeon, In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart, John Bunyan.  Pray for powers equal to your tasks, Phillips Brooks. There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, George Eliot.  

The second upload for today is to the pop up challenge theme of glass. This is an old oil lamp that I have kept from my aunt. I like the ornamental top portion of the lamp. 

Here is another story about some more wall art to decorate structures in our area. This one is happening in Old Hilliard. They say this wall mural will be a photo op for visitors. This is the fifth mural on some of the walls in Hilliard. The idea for this mural is a play on a movie called “Up”. This one is located on the side of a real estate company. There are hot-air balloons lifting houses as in the movie where an elderly man and a young boy were carried on an adventure in their house. One of the purposes of the mural is to “give the community a fun place to stop for a photo”.  This mural faces the intersection of Main and Franklin streets in Old Hilliard. The first such mural in Old Hilliard is a sunflower on a Madison street garage. One mural was created had to be covered up because “its multi-colors violated building codes”. Eventually the Hilliard Public Arts Commission was created in 2019 and established a policy to encourage public art. The murals are  funded by fund called the “percent for the Public Art”. According to the article the next project is a vinyl wrapping for ten traffic signal boxes. There will be sunflower themed. 

I was going to have sloppy joe the other night but got side tracked so I think we will have that for dinner tonight. 

Joy

looks like the cement is cracking a little an show the pock mark of age and wear