December 4, 2022 a thought for today, One man tells a lie, dozens repeat it as the truth. Chinese Proverb

The first photo upload yesterday was “starts with T”. We had the twins here for to day yesterday. I thought I would grab the chance.....T is for twins.

Of the three week end days this, Sunday, is my favorite. It is the one least crowded with things to do. It is so freeing and mostly worry free on the norm. It brings a re-beginning of sorts....a fresh new page.  

We have a new group meeting at our church just before our traditional spiritual service. This was the first day for their use of the church. When I arrived for bible study, the parking lot was full except for two spots, that hasn’t happened for years. Once, when the church was new, the lot was that full and more. After the bible study there was a short choir rehearsal then the message. We had a few new people visiting us today. That was refreshing and I hope that they come back. After the service we had a unique event. We had a Christmas Carol gathering in the parlor along with donuts and Merry Christmas cup cakes. It was a happy time shared with like-minded friends. 

The next photo for an upload yesterday was titled “wreath”. Right now I don’t have any wreaths around the house so I used the photo image I have of the one at church.

On the way home and in line with my usual search for photos, I stopped to pick up a brunch for myself and Bob. 

Now I am going to relax and play in the darkroom for a while. 

Today my first photo upload is titled “I held this”. This is one of my paper quilled flowers. It is part of one of the shadowboxes I am making for one of my great grandchildren. 

The word today is study. Today a reader, tomorrow a leader, Margaret Fuller. Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them, Victor Hugo.     The study of mathematics, like the Nile, begins in minuteness but ends in magnificence. Charles Caleb Colton. The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow. Marcus Tullius Cicero. To become an able and successful man in any profession, three things are necessary, nature, study and practice. Henry Ward Beecher.  Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics. Maimonides.  Intense study of the Bible will keep any writer from being vulgar, in point of style. Samuel Taylor Coleridge.  Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel. Ovid.  Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study. Hugh Miller.  Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Francis Bacon.  Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age. Walter Savage Landor.  Study with desire is real activity; without desire it is but the semblance and mockery of activity. William Godwin.  Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. Honore de Balzac. 

The second upload for today is “shoes or boots”. I found myself looking down a lot today. This was one  of the several photos I shot for the day. 

The Columbus Zoo has been quite a popular and happy place in its time. Here is a little about its early history. Our zoo is one of the largest in the United States. At the time of this article there were 10,000 animals. The zoo in Columbus also manages the Wilds in Cumberland, Ohio the Columbus Zoo opened in 1927. At that time it was called Riverside Park and was located on at the O'Shaughnessy Reservoir. Of course at that time it was much smaller, located on 21 acres of land and had only a handful of species. At this time in the history of Columbus there was a “prominent businessman” named Harry Wolfe. He published the Dispatch. After he made a trip to St. Louis on a business trip and also visited the St. Louis Zoo he decided Columbus needed one too. The Columbus community began receiving exotic animals as gifts before they had a place to keep them so they were kept at Franklin Park. In 1926 the Dispatch had a Christmas party where they “featured” six reindeer that Mr. Wolf had purchased from Alaska. That was a hit with the community. By then land had become available for the beginning of a zoo. The first building to be “erected” housed lions and tigers. That start of the first growth was finished in 1932. Those Christmas part reindeer had plenty of room then with a six-acre corner of the newly available land. Admission was free and the city paid the wages of the employees for upkeep on the ground and animals. Overtime the fees grew as well as the number of animals. With WWII in force, 1940s, the zoo “struggled”.  Employees were reduced so those left were given more responsibilities and worked longer hours. Today the zoo gets a large sum from a Franklin County tax levy. For a while the zoo was a “point of national interest in the 1980s when Jack Hanna started appearing on television” with some of the animals. Over the years the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium has gone through many changes. As the article relates “it has struggled and it has thrived” from when a man named Wolfe started it in the 1920s, 

I think it will be Taco Bell for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                            sad....but signs of a way of life