August 4, 2022 a thought for today, There is no power without cooperation. Latin Proverb

I slept in just a bit later than I meant to. I did my virtual checks and surprisingly was ready to leave for the church to print pretty much at my usual time. The church was completely empty of sound except for my favorite radio station. I had the work done in good time. Went around the sanctuary placing the bulletins where they belong and having a little meditation time. 

One of the uploads for August 3 is “I walked here....”. This was the path leading out of the medical lab we visited earlier in the day. 

I made my usual rounds after the printing, McDonalds and then a quick search for photos. I found a couple of good ones to catalog and assign keywords for future searches. 

I didn’t get all of the fruit I wanted at the store last week. I did get some apples though. I have been wanting some smoothies lately so I decided to cut up the apples, freeze them to be used for a couple of smoothies later. After I peeled, sliced and soaked them in lemon water and put them in the freezer I started the weekly laundry. So that will be there for me to work on the rest of the afternoon.

The second upload for yesterday was for the third and last in the series of “pop up challenge....bridges, boats and birds”. This is a bridge of the Scioto River which runs through downtown Columbus. 

I will want to get to dinner and the clean up as early as I can so I can get a couple of more things done before I get read to go to a meeting tonight. 

At my bed time reading “hour”, I am reading a good book that I am enjoying and even gaining more than one direction of thought, one being spiritual in the process. It is The Testament by John Grisham. It’s lengthy and had several personalities. I am mainly interested in two of the main characters. One is a recovering alcoholic (well, later into the book.... “recovering”) attorney and a lady missionary who is perfectly happy in the third world county where she has chosen to serve and live. Many years ago when I was studying at Columbus State Community College, I took a speed reading class. I am using the skills I learned there in this book. As I said I am mainly interested in those two people so I speed read over many of the other parts gaining information about their place and point in the story while  concentrating on the outcome of the ones I am most interested in. 

Today’s upload was “I like to....”. Take photos ..... not selfies so much....just anything in its  moment in time.

The word today is continue.  Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.  Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin . One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way. Vincent Van Gogh. Heaven is long-enduring, and earth continues long. The reason why heaven and earth are able to endure and continue thus long is because they do not live of, or for, themselves. Lao Tzu.  That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for  an end. Francis Quarles. No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from. George Eliot.  Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before. Abraham Lincoln. To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. Plutarch.  Faith is a continuation of reason. William Adams.  

The second upload today is to my Sudbury Club. I chose this image for it’s shape, simplicity and the shadow....perhaps a crown of thorns.

This is an interesting topic and seems to have strongly different thoughts. The title of the article “Columbus to map ‘heat islands’...”. I couldn’t quite get what it meant but I was assuming it referred to something about climate changes. It’s a program with a federal agency to “identify urban “heat islands”, neighborhoods hotter than others”. Columbus will be working with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. According to the article this project will help to understand heat varies across neighborhoods and will help make a “climate action plan”.  One way that it has begun to work here in Columbus is a plan to give hundreds to trees to selected city residents in the fall. Trees raise property values, absorb water, and provide shade as some relief from the heat. The article said that “big cities are roughly 4 degrees hotter than rural communities”. The pavements and buildings absorb heat while there is not so much greenspaces and trees. Some neighborhoods are hotter than others so it is more expensive to cool down the houses. These areas can also folks to more heat related illnesses. The article mentioned Driving Park as one community in our area that have the qualities of a heat island. Some of that is older buildings without air conditioning and few trees. I didn’t realize but gathered from the article that the neighborhood had a lot of trees until around the 60s and 70s when “many were chopped down because roots were tearing up the sidewalks”. After some study on the problems of high temperatures it was learned that wealthier and whiter neighborhoods in most cases have tree lined street and parks. This circumstance shows that these neighborhoods “overlap with high rated of poverty”.  These kinds of information can help with urban planning decisions. The article pointed out that the city knows they need to help some neighborhoods sooner than others. There are plans for increasing tree canopies. Happening now to help with the heat opining up rec centers as cooling spaces is taking place.  The hope is to stop tree loss and increase tree coverage by 2050. One of the problems they are running into is 70% of the city’s trees are on private property. There is only so much space for the city to plant trees without property owner’s permission. It is hoped that private landowners and property owners will participate. 

We will have sloppy joe and mac and cheese for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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