July 3, 2022 a thought for today, What is learned in youth is carved in stone. Arabic Proverb

My photo a day upload for yesterday was “letters”. I played with this one. It is a photography of the ABC statue at the local park down the street from my house. I separated them from the background and used a couple of processes on that section. A motion filter to blur the back ground and one to turn it to black and white. The alphabet letters looked a little stagnant so I tilted them. 

I am going to get to see some of my grand children and great grandchildren today. One is a special circumstance, one I have been praying for some years....finally. I have prayed and worked with another to find a way. I am grateful to still be around and be part of it.

The second photo for yesterday was of one of the strip malls in our area that have been more or less forgotten and left to trouble and decay. 

Church attendance was low today, maybe the heat, maybe another service this afternoon could be the reason. 

This is my day to refresh and renew, so there is not a lot on the agenda.  

The word today is avoid. In avoiding one evil we fall into another, if we use not discretion, Horace. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. Charlotte Bronte. Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse, Umar. Avoid any specific discussion of public policy at public meetings. Quintus Tullius Cicero.  It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil. Henry David Thoreau. Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. Publilius Syrus.  You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren. Horace.  It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton. You cannot find peace by avoiding life. Virginia Woolf.  We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain. Saint Augustine.  

I almost messed this one up. I uploaded tomorrow’s assignment then realized I had chosen the wrong date so I re-uploaded this one. This assignment was called “human”. 

This article is about some more improvements for Columbus and happening long the Scioto River banks. There will be a new 780-unit development as well some mixed use areas in the development. What interested me was that it will be “cleaning up” an auto salvage yard and take it’s place. It will be called West Bend because of its location along the Scioto. Before the space was a salvage yard it was a landfill in the 1970s for construction, industrial and municipal waste. There will be residential and office spaces. There are several industrial businesses and warehouses in the area but it is also located about two miles from Grandview Crossing and not far from the new Quarry Trails development. Part of this plan will include a public park on 12-acre with a lagoon. It is hoped that it will all connect with the Scioto Trail at some point, eventually integrating waterways and bike trails. 

For the upload to my Canadian Photo Club I uploaded this one and titled it “strength”.

Taco bell or subway for dinner. 

Joy

   

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