September 27, 2022 a thought for today, Beware: some liars tell the truth. Arabic Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “moon”. I looked for a moon last night but there was none to be seen so I pulled this one from my growing archives. 

We started the morning early with the cleaning lady. She likes to get an early start just like I do. When she left I still had some time before I needed to get ready for food pantry. So I started bringing in the house plants. I will feel so much better now that they are in and I don’t have to worry about the temps going too low. Most of them are sub-tropical plants, they like warm temps. I have five more to bring in but they are of a larger variety so I am going to need Bob’s help. 

.....We had another busy day at food pantry. This makes the third day we have gone over what, for quite a while, has been an average of about twelve families. Today we had twenty-two. 

The second upload was also from my archives. This one was for the photography club I belong to in Canada. 

It always feels good to be working with friends at the pantry. We usually have some time for getting to know each other a little better and/or keep in touch. 

While we were working in the pantry someone said we had a touch of sleet, getting my plants in today seemed in the nick of time. 

Today’s upload is “open door”. I took all kinds of shots of open doors today. I finally decided this on of my open refrigerator door was the one I liked best. 

The word today is knowledge. Wise men learn by others' harms; fools by their own, Benjamin Franklin. Example is the best precept, Aesop. Knowledge is power, Francis Bacon. To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge. Confucius. Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. ......But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles Spurgeon. Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge. Lao Tzu. What signifies knowing the names, if you know not the natures of things, Benjamin Franklin. Humility and knowledge in poor clothes excel pride and ignorance in costly attire. William Penn. Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. Plato. Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge. Leonardo da Vinci. A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. Plato.  Let us tenderly and kindly cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write. John Adams. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson. Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity. Leonardo da Vinci.

Today’s second upload, yet another from my archives. This one was taken when I was on a photo excursion during a stroll down the alley behind my house.

I learned something about Big Bear. The title to this article is “Weird Columbus history: The 1930s grocery store that kept a live bear inside of it”. In the 1930s a Big Bear grocery founder “Wayne Brown found a unique way to pack the customers in – by bringing along actual, live bears”. In 1934, during the Great Depression, an Ohio native opened his first grocery in a huge building that was once a skating rink, dance hall and had horse shows. It was located on Lane Avenue near the OSU. Hundreds of people came to see the bear in the Big Bear. The bear was kept in a special cage outside the entrance. According to the article the store’s janitor took care of the bear.  The article also mentioned a legend that if a stock boy made a mistake he had to take the bead down to the Olentangy River and give it a bath. In 1942 the original bead had out grown the cage so it was taken to the Columbus Zoo and a new home. Other bear followed for grand openings and such. These following bears became entertainment walking on a ‘high wire’, and even letting children take a ride on his back. Big Bear had a great following competitors threatened suppliers that they would pull their business if they sold to the Big Bear chain. So the Big Bear found other distributors. Eventually in 1989 Penn Traffic forced a buyout. In 2004 all the Big Bear stores closed for good.  

Left over meat loaf and mashed potatoes are on the menu tonight. 

Joy 

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