November 26, 2022 thought for today, When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you. African Proverb

One of the uploads for yesterday was called “bears”. I couldn’t imagine how a city girl could find a bear without making a half hour trip to the zoo. I searched in some of the books and toys the twins have left here with no luck. When I went to the last place to look for a book, right at eye level was this small statue of a bear in winter gear. 

It’s a pretty normal Saturday starting out with the virtual checks then moving onto whatever needs done the most. Today I have to do some minor cleaning around my desk. Over and above that there is not much on the agenda.

We picked up the groceries and stopped to fill the tank. Then home to put the groceries away and move on. Bob “moved on” to watch the OSU game....THE BIG GAME of the year....OSU vs. Michigan. 

Another upload for yesterday called for an image of a “spider web”. This one has been around for a while by the garage door. It has been hanging there for so long that the spider gave up and left. 

I moved onto some computer work and research on projects I am interesting in getting on with or getting started. One is setting up my new printer. I was planning on it being wireless so that I could use it along with the new one for a while. But the new one does not set up wirelessly. So, today, Bob suggested I try setting the old one up wirelessly....good idea. But both will have to be put off until Monday. I have other things to get done today and tomorrow will be church and reflections. 

My fist upload for today is “a funny shape”. I have a very dry sense of humor so I had difficulty finding a “funny” shape. I thought this shape was a little on the weird side if now funny.

The word for today is someone.  Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true. Charles Dickens.  A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow. William Shakespeare. A true friend unbosoms freely, advises justly, assists readily, adventures boldly, takes all patiently, defends courageously, and continues a friend unchangeably, William Penn.  A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have, Abraham Lincoln.  Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful. Louis XIV.  To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin. Thomas Aquinas.  Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Rumi.  Someone may ask, 'How is justice greater than all the other virtues?' The other virtues gratify the one who possesses them; justice does not give pleasure to the one possessing it, but instead pleases others. St. Jerome. 

The next upload was titled “bridges”. We don’t have to many the bridges over water kinds of bridges near my home but one of the definitions for bridge is a structure carrying a pathway or roadway over a depression or obstacle. So this one fits. We seem to have a lot of this style bridge.  

I know I have mentioned some of our city’s history before but maybe some has been missed or left out so here is a little more. According to the article I read today it is said that the French colonized Columbus. The article also said that Christopher Columbus discovered the city. It went on to say that in the 18th century there was European fur trade in the city. There were “conflicts” between different parts of visitors to Columbus. There were the Americans, the Indians and the French people. Between 1754 and ‘63 there was a war between the French and the Indians. At the end of the conflict there was a treaty signed that ultimately brought Ohio under the rule of the British empire. Finally, Ohio became a state in 1803. Columbus officially became Ohio's permanent capital in 1816. The city steadily grew. Developing the city improved. In 1831 the national road “reached” Columbus from Baltimore and that helped in linking the Ohio and Erie Canal. That increased the growth of Columbus. 

This is our ‘left over’ night. So we are having some of the bean soup I made at the beginning of the week for dinner and a few other odds and ends. 

Joy

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