January 3, 2023 a thought for today, If better were within, better would come out. Latin Proverb

The first upload for January 2 was “my word for 2023". I always have wanted to “understand” everything, people, events, problems and on and on. But this year for some reason it is even more important to me. I found the word in Isaiah 11:2.

The sun is not shining today. The temperature is nice for this time of year but the overcast is gloom and doom to the mood. It doesn’t promote happy productivity. 

My next upload for January 3 was “clocks”. Well, I don’t have two clocks or more together so I chose the clock I have by the mirror and used the reflection as a second clock. This clock was given to me when I retired. 

I have a sink full of dishes to tend to and I wanted to make sun tea but today it will be a weaker version. 

I was hoping to finish the bulletin today but I’m still waiting for the information I need. I finished the back side. Hopefully I will get the information later today. 

One of my uploads for today is “breakfast”. I don’t “formally” eat breakfast everyday. It’s usually a hand full of Cheezits and a cup of tea. But this morning I have the works, Rice Krispys, Silk Almond Milk, a touch of sugar on the cereal, a mandarin orange and a cup of tea.

The word today is youth. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor, Euripides.  Youth comes but once in a lifetime, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead, Henry David Thoreau.  Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future, Euripedes. Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes, Thomas Carlyle.  Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing, Aristotle. Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope, Aristotle.  To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside, Robert Louis Stevenson. Youth's sway and youth's play, of songs and flowers and love, Dante Gabriel Rossetti.  A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. Victor Hugo. Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age. Jonathan Swift. What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold. Robert Browning. Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth. Francois de La Rochefoucauld. 

My second upload for today is “sunshine”. Today wasn’t a day to get a photo of sunshine so I had to go to my archives (I’m glad I shoot most every day, add to my archives for use when the time for that image is perfect). 

Central High School located on Washington Blvd. use to be an icon in the downtown area, I guess it still is.....no longer a high school as it’s beginning but now a center of science and industry,,,,,still and icon to the Columbus skyline. Central High School at that location “educated children from 1925" including my mother. After the 1913 flood the building was a “key piece in the rebirth of the river front”. It was part of a school building campaign in the 1920s. At the time there was a law that specified “mandatory school attendance”. There were other schools built with the inception of this law, South, East, and West. These laws required that there were rooms for home economics, printing, industrial arts and other vocational training. In the Central High School auditorium there was a Burkhart mural, called Music, that was whitewashed over in the 1940s because the principal “questioned its morality”. According to the article this whitewashing made “national magazines because it came at the same time as Adolf Hitler’s censorship of the arts in Germany”. In the 1980s the building was sold to the city and an exhibit called Son of Heaven was installed. It was an exhibit of Chinese art . In 1999 the building was “expanded and converted into the Center of Science and Industry (COSI)”. When the auditorium was removed the mural was moved and stored at the Ohio Historical Society. Then it was taken to Fort Hayes, restored by students and moved again to the Greater Columbus Convention center.  When COSI refurbished the high school it kept the “historic facade”. While Central High School was open it was called “ High School of Columbus and High School of Commerce”.  The grades taught there at that time were 9 - 12. There was a Central High School at East Broad and Sixth streets in 1862 and was moved to Washington Blvd. in 1924. 

We are having a variety of air fried foods for dinner. Something for each of us, fish sticks for me and pigs in a blanket for Bob and Sue along with deli potato salad on the side. 

Joy

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