January 27, 2023 a thought for today, What was written by a pen, cannot be taken out with an axe. Russian  Proverb

My fist upload for yesterday was “my day”. This is an image I captured from the first part of my day. As I was leaving from doing the printing yesterday. Our “trusty” copier that does all of our heavy work for the week/month/year.

It’s been a great day so far....except maybe for getting up at 6:30. I met Dorothy at the church so that we could finish the bulletin. I think we got it done in record time. We were in and out having finished “binding”, labeling and stamps, in about forty-five minutes. As usual it was nice having a chance to chat with Dorothy. We have a lot in common with our age and our families. Now I have the rest of the day mostly free. 

On my way home I was on the alert for subjects for my two photos of the day. I think I found them both mostly in one spot for a change. 

The second of the two uploads for yesterday was “breakfast”. I joke about this.....I love the white Cheezits and have a handful of them as I am getting “up and at ‘em” in the morning....so, maybe call it an appetizer to breakfast which I don’t always have so the Cheezits may carry me through til lunch. 

I got the laundry and some other chores out of the way yesterday after the Thursday printing tasks.

We didn’t get the predicted heavy storms on the horizons for these past three days as according to the weather announcers. Which is a good thing albeit confusing as to making plans. Today is cold but sunny, no snow or rain. There are still small patches of snow but nothing in the way of mobility. 

My first upload for today is “something blue”. Once you start looking for a color you can usually find it all around, except for some unique and/or less familiar colors. If you stop at White Castle you will see a lot of items in the same blue shade....security poles, awnings, logos and light covers as well as trash cans as in the shot. 

The word to day is between. Genuine tragedies in the world are not conflicts between right and wrong. They are conflicts between two rights, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel . The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens. Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits, Frederick William Robertson.  Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance. Plato.  Lost - yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever. Horace Mann. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. Marcus Tullius Cicero. A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship. Saint Francis de Sales. Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt.  The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down. George Eliot. 

The second upload for today is “knotholes”. I found this fence as I was leaving the White Castle parking lot. Later I passed a neighbor’s aging wooden privacy fences that would have been a better choice since it had “gobs” of knotholes. 

This is another story mentioned on the Curious Cbus (and columbusneighborhoods.org both following the Thursday evening PBS show Broad and High) about a historic school that has been renovated/re-purposed. Its name is the Open Air School located at 2571 Neil Ave. I think I have heard about these kinds of schools in other parts of the world. This school was built in 1928 in an effort to educate and be a healthful setting for the prevention of Tuberculosis in vulnerable children. It has been renovated and kept with the history-inspired features. In its day it was a natural setting with outdoor play areas, a large “rest room” (not the kind of rest room we refer to today...an actual room to rest in for naps), a kitchen and cafeteria and, of course classrooms with “abundant windows” that stayed open all year (even in the winter...kids dressed in outdoor gear and there were small heaters in the room). The school eventually closed and was left empty for many years until it was sold in 2018. During the renovation, materials and spaces were considered in keeping it historically correct. The building was in good condition with brick walls, “quarry tiles” in the hallways and stairs as well as wood flooring. During the renovation the original covered play area has been converted to a breakfast and lunch café. What was once the cafeteria and terrace are now a restaurant. What was the classrooms and the “rest room” are now event spaces. Old lockers along the hallway are still there with new built in seating added. Old interior doors remain. A new elevator was ‘skillfully’ tucked into an old storage area. Bathrooms were “upgraded” with modern fixtures.  The former terrace overlooks the Olentangy River. There were some missing front doors that were restored by using historic photos of the old doors. It is listed in the National Register of Historic Places now.”

It’s pizza time again. 

Joy

        recycling missing the can, tipped over and forgotten chair or ......???