August 14, 2022 a thought for today, Bury truth in a golden coffin, it will break it open. Russian Proverbs

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “I stood here....”. I set the camera on a ten-second timer and climbed up on the foot stool.

I was a little disappointed in the church service today. I count on Sunday mornings to lift my spirit and begin to revitalize and refresh. It seemed to do the opposite this morning, depress and sadden the soul instead. I hope that isn’t the way the rest of the week is going to go. I don’t like for people to “promote themselves” or give that kind of impression particularly from the pulpit.

The second photo a day upload for yesterday was a captured moment of these soft purple flowers again the rough texture of the wooden fence.  

I went to church early this morning. A friend had asked for copies of a bulletin I had done a month or so ago so I went in particularly early in case I had a problem with the copier. There was no problem so I got the job done quickly and had time to go into the sanctuary early for contemplation and rest.

It was donut fellowship this week so I spent a little time after church with the few church members and friends who joined us. 

I don’t know what to do with myself....I have nothing on an agenda today. 

My fist upload for today is “I do this on Sundays....” I snapped this one as I sat in the pew before the church service started. 

The word for today is facts.  The frontiers are not east or west, north or south, but wherever a man fronts a fact, Thoreau. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence, John Adams. Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand. Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get em, get em right, or they will get you wrong. Thomas Fuller. Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other. Victor Hugo. A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.  Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth, Marcus Aurelius. Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them, Charles Dickens. Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things, Isaac Newton. I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less, Thomas Carlyle. 

This was captured of my great grandson beginning to enjoy the cake on his third birthday. 

Here is an article about another “green space” for our community. This one will be on the Northwest side of our city in the former Ohio State University sheep farm. This farm was located at 2425 West Case Road near the Ohio State’s airport. The plans are for athletic fields, “birding meadows, wetlands, and walking paths. One of the biggest things people would like in the park is a library. The planners want to keep the park “as natural as possible” which includes leaving existing wetlands to help with collecting and managing storm water and clearing invasive plants as well as planting native “vegetation”. The article mentioned that three soccer fields and a cricket pitch are planned, an event center and meadows are listed. There is a red barn and farm house on the property which will be kept. Ideas are still being considered such as a hard surface for a picklecourt, basket ball and handball. There will be a path connecting the park with Carriage Place Community Center. According to the article Upper Arlington would have liked the space for their own park but Columbus residents preferred this idea instead. Work will begin on it and could take up to ten years to complete. The idea of a library being included in the plans seems to be a big part of the plan. 

It’s a take out night for us, Taco Bell, Subway, KFC or otherwise....

Joy

It may be a question of whether it was stolen and then dropped or just put down for a quick moment