September 9, 2022 a thought for today, Earth is but a marketplace; heaven is home. West African Proverb

My first upload for September 8 is “an emotion”. This is two of my great grandchildren enjoying a book together. 

I was looking forward to today.....a nice quiet Friday. Sue had a couple of errands she wanted to get out of the way so we took Sweet Pea with us for a ride. She also got a short walk at the park on the way home. 

Yesterday when I went to the church to do the printing I was surprised to see several volunteers there helping to unload a delivery from Mid Ohio Food Collective. It’s nice to have activity in the church. 

The second upload for yesterday was from my archives. It is a door on an old historic church we often visited. 

The sun is bright but the air is cool. The leaves haven’t started to change yet though. That’s the pretty part of autumn. 

I was sad like much of the world to hear that Queen Elizabeth died yesterday. She was quite a lady. I always admired her. She seemed to conduct her life with dignity and grace. Her facial features and physical build were much like my mother’s. I often played with the idea that they may have been related since the resemblance was so striking. My mom’s family are from Ireland and Scotland. 

The fist upload for today is “opposites”. For this “assignment” I chose to show the opposites of highlights and shadows. 

I have taken up an old hobby and I am relearning some of the tricks of the practice. I had put aside the fact that the strips used in the craft come in different widths. I started a project...got one section done, then started the next piece. As I examined the two together, I found one “taller” than the other. Dah. 

The word for today is gracious.   When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude. William Wordsworth.  If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. Francis Bacon. To refuse graciously is to confer a favor, Publilius Syrus. It is compassion, the most gracious of virtues, Which moves the world. Thiruvalluvar. The axle of the wheels of the chariot of Providence is Infinite Love, and Gracious Wisdom is the perpetual charioteer, Charles Spurgeon. Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness, Charles Caleb Colton. A gracious soul may look through the darkest cloud and see God smiling on him, Thomas Brooks. Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism, William Makepeace Thackeray.  And upon this act [Emancipation Proclamation]...I invoke...the gracious favor of Almighty God, Abraham Lincoln.  We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others, John Wesley. A  generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation, Robert Louis Stevenson.

Here’s another upload from my archives. This is one of my grandsons as he is preparing for fencing lesson. 

It was the tallest building in Columbus for many years....here’s a bit about its history. The LeVeque Tower once known as the AIU Building has an “art deco façade”. According to the article it takes us back to “a booming era of Columbus’ history”. Today it is a hotel. It opened in 1927 as the American Insurance Union Citadel (AIU) financed this institution and was given its name. It is 47 stories tall with two 18-story wings and “part of a post World War I building boom” in the beginning. It is a half foot taller than the Washington Monument. The art deco style was admired by architects everywhere and once called the “most original of American skyscrapers”. It was occupied by the American Insurance Union as well its offering of extra hotel room for the neighboring Deshler Hotel, the Palace Theatre and other radio stations due to the antennae on top. After the Depression the insurance union went bankrupt. So Leslie LeVeque and John Lincoln bought the building and changed the name. After the death of the two owners Katherin LeVeque, Leslie’s daughter, took over and “reinvested millions in the aging tower”. It was named to the National Register to Historic Places in 1975. She also agreed to restore the adjoining Palace Theatre. In 2011 it was sold and for several years was transformed into apartments, condominiums and office space while “keeping the building’s heritage at the forefront”.  There lingers a taste of the “rich history” when you walk into the lobby. You will see architectural features, marble and bronze and contemporary design.  

Pizza time....yeah

Joy

    a place to watch traffic go by and leave used-up things behind