July 19, 2022 a thought for today, He who talks forgets what he said but he who listens can't forget. African Proverb
The first photo of the day upload for yesterday was “street photography”. This is a familiar scene on the streets of most cities. Ours use to be more in the alley behind the house but got moved to the street a few years ago so the alley gets unused.
Today was another food pantry day. It was a good day. We had a steady move of the guests. We also had several new clients and more homeless than we normally do.
Before I left, I made some minor touch ups to the bulletin that is in process. While I was at pantry, I was handed the information to finish that one which I will do tomorrow. Now I have to get the information to do another celebration of life bulletin for this week end. One other thing I worked on this morning was a hand out on the new 988 call number available to people in distress with alcohol and drug abuse with signs of thoughts of suicide. On top of those three items I have had a request for several copies of one of the other celebration of life bulletins. It looks like Thursday printing is going to be a long one. I would also like to donate a food item for the luncheon we are hosting for the other funeral service we will be doing on Saturday.
Now it will a race with the clock for getting some things done before it is time to fix dinner.
The word today is certainty. For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. Vincent Van Gogh. If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon. I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination, John Keats. Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge, Charles Darwin. To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. 'Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you. Isaac Newton. Events are never absolute, their outcome depends entirely upon the individual. Misfortune is a stepping stone for a genius, a piscina for a Christian, a treasure for a man of parts, and an abyss for a weakling, Honore de Balzac. Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times. Martin Luther. If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar. John Henry Newman. There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau. Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. Henry St. John.
I read the title to this article and thought it sounds like a unique building in its shape and location, a new building proposed for downtown. A unique structure on a “postage stamp-sized lt in the Arena District”. It would be a six unit, seven-story building at 116 Spruce Street. It’s on a dead-end alley (Armstrong Street) next to a rear parking lot of a large Hotel. The idea of a structure being built on a small .06 acres seem “limited” but the property owner kept dreaming and “thinking big”. There will be ground-floor parking that would mean open to the street and would need a “curb-cut”. They are thinking of “different material could b used to make the building’s elevator shaft more visually interesting”. There are plans for balconies on the Downtown side of the structure.
I think we will have left overs with chicken fries for dinner tonight.
Joy
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