June 15, 2022 a thought for today, Life is lived forwards, but understood backwards. African Proverb
We are having a bad spell of high heat. The power was out for my area of the city last night for about three hours. Yesterday and today there have been some “rolling outages” all over Ohio. At least it happened in the evening so the temps weren’t at their highest. I was concerned that if might be out long enough for the freezer to begin to thaw. Gratefully it only lasted about three hours.
I decided to do the printing today instead of waiting until tomorrow. Chris, my ride and a friend, is having some health problems and they need dealt with right now. Bob is home from work. The place where he works had to shut the doors because their power is still out. So he was able to take me to do the printing. I also was able to check on some of equipment to make sure it was working properly.
By the time I left the church my clothes were sticking to me from the heat. I was glad to get back to the air conditioning, we don’t have it at the church.
I had made some small changes to the bulletin before we left. I also got a batch of birthday photos saved to a flash drive for my grand daughter-in-law.
When we got home and since Bob is home today he attached my soaker hoses for my small side gardens. I watered some of the house plants, they needed it in this heat. Both Bob and I didn’t stay outside in the soaring temps for very long.
The word today is active. I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe. Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. Leonardo da Vinci. Observation is a passive science, experimentation an active science. Claude Bernard. Nothing is more active than thought, for it travels over the universe, and nothing is stronger than necessity for all must submit to it. Thales. The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom, Friedrich Nietzsche. If we would have anything of benefit, we must earn it, and earning it become shrewd, inventive, ingenious, active, enterprising, Such is the active power of good temperament! Great sweetness of temper neutralizes such vast amounts of acid, Ralph Waldo Emerson. He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected, Marcus Aurelius.
This story sounded interesting, something new for the kids in our community and it is a park I am relatively familiar with. There is a new “Srotybook Trail at Deer Creek State Park”. The Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library, Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library and the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, along with Ohio First Lady Fran DeWine opened this new and exciting part of the Park on June 13. This program gives children and families a chance for an “adventure inside a great book”. All while happening in the out of doors in fresh air. As many of us Ohioans, Deer Creek State Park is located right outside Mt. Sterling in farm country. The park offers a marina, a campground, 18 hole golf course, boating, fishing, camping, and hiking. “The story featured on the park’s new Storybook Trail is “Drop” by Emily Kate Moon”. There are panels along the trail that tell the story. There are more story trails in Ohio, the list can be found at Storybook Trails Ohio.
I think we may have KFC or left overs for dinner tonight
Joy
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