October 7, 2022 a thought for today, Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future. American Native Lumbee  Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “blue”. Most colors are fairly easy to find. Blue for me is one of the easiest. At seems very eye catching when whole structures or even on full wall is one striking color as this building is. 

For me each day of the week (for a retired person) seems to have something unique about it. Sunday a day of renewal and relaxation, Monday a day open and time to begin the pages of a new chapter, Tuesday a day to gather and attend to a to-do list, Wednesday a continuation of the Tuesday to-do list, Thursday a culmination of the to-do list and time to take a deep breath, Friday a time to look at and catch up comfortably on a back-burner-list, Saturday the household grocery business, then back to Sunday; all with necessary adjustments and patches. 

The second upload for yesterday is free choice. This is where another from the archives pulls my attention. The seating and part of a table in a diner. The lines, shapes and colors call attention. 

Today was the first day of the annual two-day fall sale at my church. Since my sister is more the shopper than I am I thought she would enjoy a stop and visit there. So we went early. She seemed to enjoy herself and I took some photos for our newsletter. On the way home Sue helped me look for one of my photo of the day images. It’s nice to have another set of eyes and tastes helping me in the search. 

The autumn days begin with a chill in the air now. The leaves are changing and beginning to fall. The football games are in full swing. This the best part of autumn days before the really cold weather settles in. 

My first upload for today is “yellow”. At this time of year colors offer a big selection. As I was driving through the neighborhood I was on the alert for finding a image with yellow along with other pleasing features. 

The word today is make. Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Francis of Assisi. Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking. Marcus Aurelius. Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us, Henri Frederic Amiel. Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. Aristotle. God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. William Shakespeare. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha. Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau. Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero. The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself. Lao Tzu.  Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character. Robert Browning. Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs. Saint Francis de Sales. 

This second upload for today is another from my growing collections and fits nicely with this time of year. 

This article is about one of the most famous things Columbus has to offer....the OSU football stadium...the Horseshoe. The article starts out by saying that the stadium actually came about from an after thought of Charles “Chic” Harley. In 1916 “the Buckeyes became a major attraction and Big Ten champions for the first time”. The place was called the “Ohio Field” at the time. At that time “clamoring for a stadium” started. In 1919 a spot east of the Olentangy River was picked for the stadium. All eighty-eight Ohio counties were asked to help raise one million dollars. There were some “cost overloads” from that but it was a beginning. The design for the new stadium was to hold sixty-six thousand people. The horseshoe idea was “inspired by stadiums at Yale and Harvard”. The description in the article said “Ohio Stadium was the first double-deck, poured-concrete (around steel wires) stadium in the country, and the largest of any type west of the Appalachian Mountains.” Another figure that came into the mind of the designer was the Colosseum and Pantheon in Rome. That’s where the arches, domes, and half-dome came from. One statement was that the “architectural marvel...was ahead of its time”. However, from 1922 to 1935 the team was not in the superb winning nature that they finally became. Since attendance “lagged” there were only about thirty thousand fanes in five home games. The stadium became known “Smith’s Folly”. Things turned around and they became a consistent winner in college football. The article mentioned an interesting thought about that was it a bit of the chicken before the egg kind of happening, success because of the stadium or the stadium because of the winning. There have been renovations over time. The most recent addition was a permanent section in the south stands. It “does not touch the rest of the stadium” so that the structure remains a horseshoe. The horseshoe feature is a distinctive feature that needs to be kept in tact, one of the few unique venues in college football. The article appropriately mentioned that with the maintenance that has been kept up and when other stadiums often only a generation the horse shoe has withstood the test of time.  

Pizza night is here again!

Joy

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