December 22, 2022 a thought for the day, Where the tongue slips, it speaks the truth. Irish Proverb

An upload for December 21 was “on the floor”. One of my favorite subjects was taking a nap under a table and chair. Reminds me of children throwing a sheet over the table and calling it a tent. 

Here it is Thursday again. This one is a little on the different side of the ordinary. I had Christmas papers ready for church and the Christmas days. Five separate items to print. Four to be folded, fifty copies each of the two and seventy-five copies of two of them. Then seventy-five copies of one of them inserted to another seventy-five copies. All to be placed appropriately and two mounded on bulletin boards. 

The printing is done. Now to attack the laundry for the rest of the day....those basement steps look like they go on forever. 

Another upload for the 21st was “presents”. There are no little ones in the house any more so the number of gifts under the tree are few. 

Bob is on vacation again this holiday season. It is a blessing that I have him here to help me with some cleaning before Sunday. Tomorrow we will work together do put a little spick and span on things. It will be a good day to stay in from what I am hearing about the weather. Friday after the printing of the newsletter is usually the day we finish getting it ready for delivery but my helper and I decided that doing it on Monday this time would be better. That helps with getting other things done. 

An upload for today is “a gift”. Some of the neighbors exchange gifts and these are two of them for us this year. The other was a plate of cookies but they didn’t last too long. They were delicious. 

The word today is view.  It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top. Henry Ward Beecher.  People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them. Epictetus.  There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. Henry David Thoreau. It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. George Eliot. I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country. George Washington.  I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. Abigail Adams.  Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we, as a people, can be engaged in. Abraham Lincoln.  Do not view mountains from the scale of human thought. Dogen.  A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. Napoleon Bonaparte.  

A second upload for today was “Santa”. As I mentioned earlier, there aren’t any children I the house now so Santa isn’t one of our familiar decorations or visitors. This was he in a neighbor’s yard. 

I find stories about revitalizing old buildings interesting and encouraged that some old things with history stay around. This article talks about several buildings in the city that are being considered for revitalizing and some re-purposing. The Continental Centre on Gay street is one of them. It was built in 1972 and was used by the Ohio Bell Southwestern. The plans are to convert it to 336 apartments with the first floor being used for retail. It will also have a rooftop pool. Another is a building that has a bit of personal history for my family. It use to be the “old West High School”. It was built in 1908. My mom lived in the area we now call the “bottoms” which includes Franklinton and that school....it is now called Starling Middle School. She only attended there for a short time before she was moved to Central High School which is now COSI (Center of Science and Industry). The plans for this old school building are to re-purpose it to 45 affordable residential units. There will be some new construction on the “site” also leading to 52 other units. Another building being considered for renovations is the Masonic Block Building on Marion Street. This building was built in 1897. It ‘housed the area’s Masonic organization and its related businesses' for several years. The plan is for retail storefront spaces. 

I think it will be chicken in the air fryer for dinner tonight. 

Joy 

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