January 21, 2023 thought for today, The eyes believe themselves; the ears believe other people. Russian Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “I am passionate about....”. The thing that takes up a lot of my interest and time is photography. I have others to as we all do. I am interested in reading an hour or so every day. Then I have my hobbies at present crocheting and paper quilling, it changes from time to time. I am also engaged in volunteering in different capacities for my church. 

We have the twins for a visit today. It is becoming a regular for now on Saturdays. It brings energy and light to the house. Both my sister and I are exhausted when they leave but there is still a bit of the “life” they bring still lingering. 

Bob and I picked up our curbside groceries a little while ago. We have been taking Sweet Pea with us.... she gets excited when she knows she gets to go. We stopped at McDonalds on the home. When the lady at the take out window saw her she gave her a small bowl of whipped cream. Last week when the lady bringing out the groceries saw her she wanted to reach in the window and pet her on the head. 

Another upload for yesterday was “coffee”. My drink of choice is tea. But now and then there is a call for coffee in the house so this is my answer to that question. 

Another stop on the way home was to swing by the park so I could get one of the photos for today’s upload. 

Then when we got home it was time to put all the groceries away.....and enjoy the twins. 

I had a third upload for yesterday. That upload was named “K is for...”. I didn’t have a kite or a kitten in the house today so I grabbed the next handy “K”....keys. 

I had a cooking show on the TV as I was multi tasking, I noticed they were using a pasta that looked like a spaghetti noodle but it had a hole through the center (similar to a rigatoni noodle but much thinner like a spaghetti noodle) allowing sauces to get on the inside to. I just had to spend some time to do a Google search on it to find out what it was called....Bucatini pasta.  

I am reading another new book....I always have a book handy on the ipad....this one is Hornet Flight by Ken Follett. As I start out on a lot of his books, I think “maybe this one is a little slow”, then all of a sudden I am at point where I don’t want to put it down. 

One upload for today is “water”. As I mentioned above we, stopped by the park for that shot. I took a few photos of the fountain but this one with the geese enjoying the pond seemed to be the better choice. 

The word today is assume. We must never assume that which is incapable of proof, George Henry Lewes.  When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property. Thomas Jefferson.  Treat with utmost respect your power of forming opinions, for this power alone guards you against making assumptions that are contrary to nature and judgments that overthrow the rule of reason, Marcus Aurelius. Do not be the judge of people; do not make assumptions about others. A person is destroyed by holding judgments about others, Gautama Buddha.  Friendship with a man is friendship with his virtue, and does not admit of assumptions of superiority, Mencius.  Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself, Walt Whitman. What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things, William of Ockham. 

The other upload for today is “homemade”. I used my “homemade” noodles in an image a couple of days ago. I have several of the crocheted pieces that are “homemade”. And several of the 8x10 framed paper quilled story boards I am doing for my great grand children....a ballet dancer, a basket of wild flowers, an undersea image, critters in a farm field, and two in the process...owls on tree branch, and balloons in the air. 

A while back I mentioned that I watch a WOSU PBS show on Wednesday evenings called Broad and High. There are a couple of sections to the show. one of them is called Driving with Darbee another is called Curious Cbus. The article today is from Curious Cbus about a history of Early Shopping Malls in Columbus.....their beginning and some of their endings. In the 1960s downtown stores “struggled” as new “large indoor and outdoor shopping centers" began popping up. The article mentioned that “the draw of a new mall also fades over time”. The first “major” mall in Columbus was Northland. It started in 1963. There were forty-three stores in the outdoor mall....the two major ones were Lazarus and Sears. Morse Road was widened to six lanes due to more traffic. The parking lot had space for 4,500 cars. Eastland was next and they were “fully enclosed” and climate-controlled. Next came Westland in 1969 when Lazarus had opened a store there in 1962 which “anchored” the new mall. These three malls pulled business away from downtown shopping. Improvements and expansions took place through the years. Northland and Westland became “enclosed in 1975 and 1982. Then bigger malls came along. City Center Mall opened in 1989. Then Tuttle Crossing in 1997. Easton Town Center opened in 1999. According to the article “the biggest battle in the war for Central Ohio shoppers came with the development of the Polaris Fashion Place”. There was a struggle between Northland and Polaris. JC Penney, Lazarus, and Sears—closed their stores at Northland. Westland managed to stay open until 2012. The article said that Easton Town Center is the only mall to “beat the odds and continues to thrive”. City Center was demolished in 2009. Polaris filed for bankruptcy in 2021. Tuttle Crossing has been “on the verge of foreclosure in recent years”. Eastland is being demolished. Easton is a “mixed-use development with both office and residential properties and therefore does not rely solely on retail”.

We are having the beef and noodles I froze from last Monday’s dinner for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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