June 3, 2022 thought for today, Your mind is like a parachute; it only works when it's open. African Proverb

My gratitude photo for yesterday is my great grandson reaching for something very interesting, to him. It is a picture of the gratitude there is in new life.  

Lowell treated me to a house cleaning by a professional yesterday. My first experience. She and her mother did a fantastic job. I’ve never been a very good house keeper but am a good home maker. 

My upload yesterday to my other friends was taken through the broken window of an deserted and forgotten old school building.

I got the weekly printing done yesterday. Then a stop at White Castle. Then came the house work, the laundry. To top the day off was a meeting at church in the evening. 

Today is a “let-go” day....no heavy agenda. It’s been a busy week and I still can’t get free of the insurance/car business just yet. 

My photo for today, gratitude month day 3 is of a handicap parking spot and a bonus of a fire hydrant both of which I am grateful for. 

The word for today is young. True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart. Honore de Balzac. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. Epicurus. The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him. Abraham Lincoln. Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young, Augustus. I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. Victor Hugo.  Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Young men, trust God, and make the future bright with blessing. Old men, trust God, and magnify him for all the mercies of the past. Charles Spurgeon. Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man. Henry David Thoreau.  Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality. Henry Ward Beecher. The cry of a young raven is nothing but the natural cry of a creature, but your cry, if it be sincere, is the result of a work of grace in your heart, Charles Spurgeon. 

The upload to my other group of photo friends for today was shot from of a decorative architecture with a dome shape at the top and background.

I’m old enough to remember the first malls. We use to do our shopping downtown. We would take the bus downtown and visit some of the “famous” stores. Lazarus, Morehouse Fashion, Woolworths, Mills Restaurant and more. We would ride the escalators and elevators as they were operated by a person at the door. The malls brought an exciting new experience. Now looking back the old way was just at exciting if not more so that the “mall way”. This article mentioned “history would prove that the draw of a new mall also fades over time”. The story mentions that the first Columbus malls are “either gone or in decline”. The first “major” mall in Columbus was Northland in 1964. Two of the major stores were Lazarus and Sears, the first in Central Ohio. It opened with 43 stores and space for parking 4,500 cars. There were banks, salons, shoe stores and a Cinema. The Cinema was the first “new local movie theater to open in decades”. Eastland Mall opened in 1968. Eastland was the first enclosed mall in the area. In 1962 Lazarus opened a store on the west side of town on space that would become the “anchor store” to Westland Mall in 1969. Improvements continued and in 1975 Northland became enclosed and Westland in 1982. City Center Mall opened in 1989. Then the Mall at Tuttle Crossing in 1997. Easton Town Center began it’s growth in 1999. The article went on to say that the “biggest battle in the war for Central Ohio shoppers came with.....the Polaris Fashion Place”. Some of the other malls fought battles over this development. This was the beginning of the end of several of the major malls. In the earlier closures of the mall, JC Penney, Lazarus and Sears closed their stores at the malls. The Westland mall managed to stay open until 2012. The last store open there was the Sears store until 2017. The article said that the current owner of the Westland site “planed to redevelop the site into a new outdoor shopping center”. COVID put those plans on hold. Eastland is still a much smaller shopping area with major department stores no longer there. There have been complaints about the deterioration for health and safety violations. Of the malls opening in the 80s, 90s and 2000s, Easton Town Center is continuing to thrive. City Center was demolished in 2009, Polaris has filed for bankruptcy and the Mall at Tuttle Crossing is on the verge of foreclosure. Easton’s present success seems to be “a mixed-use development with both office and residential properties and therefore does not rely solely on retail”. 

Pizza again!

Joy

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