July 31, 2022 a thought for today, From our ancestors come our names, but from our virtues our honours. Latin Proverb

The first upload yesterday was “happy days”. This on is all of my grandchildren and a grandson-in-law and a niece. 

There were only a few people at church this morning. It seems a shame to me. They missed what I consider a meaning message. At present we have two ministers who are my favorite, Marion and Wayne. Their messages are different than most others I have heard. The difference is they talk about life today, the here and now. They share their message with ease, intellect and knowledge and how the meaning of faith and Christianity and Jesus work in this time in history, this here and now. At the same time their message seems to plant seeds, precious seeds....in my opinion, the whole purpose of a sermon. It’s hard to nod off when they are speaking. We had three other people through the most current years and just a while back who had a similar way of guiding us but they moved on...Tracy, Keith, and Katie. 

The second upload for yesterday was the eagle’s nest on top of the replica of the Santa Maria that was docketed here in Columbus. 

After church I did a quick drive around to look for some photos. I didn’t come up with much on this “photo safari”. I saw a couple but I was past them before it registered. So I will go back another day.

As is my custom for a Sunday I do not have a list of to-dos for today. There are a lot of chores that could and should be addressed but not today. 

One of my uploads for today is titled “Sunday morning”. It was taken from one of the meetings rooms at my church. The windows partially open showing bit of the neighborhood outside. 

The word for today is comparison. When you are content to be simply yourself and don't compare or compete, everybody will respect you. Lao Tzu. Nothing shall I, while sane, compare with a friend. Homer. Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they are unfortunate, a wet sponge with one dash wipes the picture away, Aeschylus.  Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other? George Eliot.  I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes, Martin Luther. Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness, Charles Caleb Colton. The heart feels, the head compares, François-René de Chateaubriand.  No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them, Harriet Beecher Stowe.  

The second upload today was up to my Sudbury Photo Club. It is one of the trucks that had passed through our neighborhood. 

My daughter in law shared some photos of the kids at the area now called Scioto Mile. I felt like they were visiting a popular area of Columbus for a little bit of memory since they will be moving away for a while. It also brought to mind the history of our city so I thought I would do a bit of a search and share it with this article. This is a quick bit about Columbus. To begin it is said to have been colonized by the French. The name of our city is traced back to Christopher Columbus, some believe he discovered this city. In the 18the century some of the European nation peoples came here for the fur trade. In the early years there were “frequent” conflicts people there were many people who “had an interest in it”, Americans, Indians and the French. In the 1740s Pennsylvania traders captured the city, overruled it, controlled the trade until the French people over threw them. Between 1754 and 1763 the French people and the Indians both wanted to control the city, there were turmoil and battles until a peace treaty was signed in 1763 when Ohio was under British rule. After the American war of the revolution Ohio “achieved its statehood in 1803. Columbus became the capital city. That is about the time that major development in improvements started. The national road came through linking Ohio and Erie Canal which helped the population increase. Well into the 21st century the Scioto Mile Park began to form along the river front. As the Scioto Mile Park grew there has been a lot of “revitalization” in the downtown area. There was the Columbus Commons park along with developments in the Arena District and Franklinton. 

Dinner will be an “order in”......taco bell, ding ho, subway.....who knows. 

Joy

Since this is the end of the month I am attaching my two composites for this month.