September 19, 2022 a thought for today, Our fears always outnumber our dangers. Latin Proverb

The day has arrived for the technician/repair person to finally fix the ice maker on the GE refrigerator. He got here near eight o’clock. To make a long story short, he had to order a new ice maker. At the time I made the appointment, I had asked them to put one on the truck....as it turned out they couldn’t do that for various reasons. So now we wait....again. 

The first photo a day upload for yesterday was “car park”. I figured this could mean a used car lot so that is what I was going for. 

I couldn’t go to sleep for a while last night so I made a list in my head of the many things I need to get done today or within the next few days. There must have been fourteen items. So far I have accomplished maybe four.....only ten to go.

This in my current year, in my later years, changes my “Christmas shopping” methods. I make small gifts rather than guessing what someone would like and using the leg/mouse click work to shop. That has been added to my list of daily things to get done now and for the next few months. 

My second upload for yesterday was an image that literally grabbed my eye as I came out of the post office. 

Today is the day that Queen Elizabeth is being buried. Aside from having it on the TV all morning long, I have to mention something. One the photo a day clubs I belong to makes a list at the beginning of the month of a different photo title each day. So I have had this list since the first of the month. Today’s photo is “what’s on the TV”. That makes this an easy one. 

As mentioned above, the photo  “assignment” for today is  “what’s on TV” . Most stations on the TV today covered the funeral of Queen Elizabeth. I feel as many other she was a graceful and dignified lady. She will be sorely missed. There may never be another like her. 

The word is hopeful.  The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. George Eliot. Hope is patience with the lamp lit, Tertullian. Hope is the only bee that makes honey without flowers, Robert Green Ingersoll. Hope is the best possession, William Hazlitt. If it were not for hopes, the heart would break, Thomas Fuller. Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope! Victor Hugo. To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams. Henry David Thoreau. Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant. Epictetus. It is history that teaches us to hope, Robert E. Lee. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope, Ralph Waldo Emerson. In such a porcelain life, one likes to be sure that all is well lest one stumble upon one's hopes in a pile of broken crockery. Emily Dickinson. We promise in proportion to our hopes, and we deliver in proportion to our fears. Francois de La Rochefoucauld .The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands. Plautus.  As long as we have hope, we have direction, the energy to move, and the map to move by. We have a hundred alternatives, a thousand paths and an infinity of dreams. Hopeful, we are halfway to where we want to go; hopeless, we are lost forever, Laozi.

I captured this, my second upload for today, as I was passing by the stairs. I couldn’t resist. The thing that caught my eye, besides those gorgeous eyes, was the placement of her paws.   

I have a long personal history with this hospital on several fronts. I also appreciate learning about things that make up this city and its history. First of all it all started, I wanted to be a nurse from the time I was a child. My father was an Emergency Squads man and was in and out of that emergency room on a near daily basis. He arranged for me to shadow the head emergency room nurse, Mary, when I was a teen ager. That was the beginning of my long and varied relationship with Mt. Carmel. I may have mentioned this subject before but a human nature has its picture or words that come up in life to re-kindle memories and may cause us to share them. That hospital is called Mt. Carmel. It was the “primary care hospital in Franklinton in 1886. It opened and was the run by the Sister’s of the Holy Cross. It could be found between the Ohio State Route 16 and Route 62. The Mount Carmel College of Nursing was located on the hospital grounds. The US News & World Report ranked Mt. Carmel one of the “18 best performing among hospitals in Ohio and high performing in four specialities and procedures”. In 2016 there was a plan that transformed it into an outpatient facility. At that time the emergency department and an outpatient facility was moved to a new location on the property. A new inpatient serve facility was built in Grove City. The majority of the “old” Mt. Carmel was demolished. The “old” Mt. Carmel, Mt. Carmel West as it was know, was first known as Hawkes Hospital founded by Dr.  WB Hawkes. He died before the building was complete it was sold and the Sister’s of the Holy Cross took over the management. I learned from the article that it was first meant to “serve the needs of infants and women”. I also learned from the article that a second building “adjoining the old one containing a chapel and 120 additional patient rooms was started”.  The School for Nurses, where I many years later attended nurses training, opened in 1903. In 1921 an additional 120 patient rooms were added and 20 rooms with recreation halls, classrooms and a library. The Mount Carmel College of Nursing was founded by the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1903 and became one of the largest “baccalaureate nursing programs in the state of Ohio”. The school of nursing is still located on the “old” Mt. Carmel property. Freshmen and Sophomores live on campuses with “both  coed dorms and single student apartments. Today, it is a private, coeducational and Catholic church affiliated institution with around 1100 full-time students”.

I am making Chicketti and corn on the cob for dinner.

Joy