February 14, 2023 a thought for today, It is easier to demolish a house than to build one. Irish Proverb

The cleaning ladies were here this morning so as they worked I worked one parts of the newsletter. I should get the rest of what I need for the bulletin this afternoon. The material I will  need for the annual report has started coming in. I haven’t opened the template yet so I could begin that process. Maybe I will get a chance to do that later this week. 

An upload for February 13 was “B is for”. As I was coming home from an errand, I got behind this bus for a photo of B is for.

I got things together to head out for food pantry soon after the ladies left......it was a medium day at pantry. Our “normal” number of clients is around fifteen. Some good days it may be as high as twenty-five or so. Today we had eleven families. And the pace was pretty steady. Among the “treats” we have for our guests we had a beautiful Valentines Day cake today. 

Another upload for yesterday was “letters”. There are “letters” all over the place. I had in mind something in fancy lettering but after some searching I chose to use this, a template for our photos of the day. 

The house is all nice and bright. I usually pick up all of Sweet Peas toys before the cleaning so they are out of the way. As soon as the door closed, I placed them back on the floor for her to go through. It use to be we needed a toy box for her collection. It has shrunk to about half a dozen toys now two of which are Angry Birds, her go-tos on most occasions. 

My first upload for today is “love is”. My gentle, always faithful, always forgiving, always near me - my Sweet Pea.

The word for today is circle. Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round, Edmund Waller.  All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle, Marcus Aurelius.  Circles, like the soul, are neverending and turn round and round without a stop, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle, Jane Austen.  Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other, Victor Hugo.  The circle of life is cut up into segments. All lines are equal if they are drawn from the centre and touch the circumference, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.  The friendship that can cease has never been real, St. Jerome.  Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift' up his fellow, but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up, Solomon. The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion, Charles Caleb Colton.  Oh, blindness to the future! kindly giv'n, That each may fill the circle mark'd by heaven, Alexander Pope. A circle of lovely, quiet people becomes the ring on my finger, Rumi.  The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically, Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil, Charles Caleb Colton.  My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move! Edmund Waller.  

The second upload for today is “valentine-cupid”. I didn’t have any valentines in the house but I found some at church. One of the ladies had made hand drawn hearts for our food pantry guests. Another had spent some time creating hears on a stick. When I stopped at McDonalds I found that they had hears on the sides of their take out bags. 

The article is about another building where I took a couple of classes and didn’t realize at the time of its history. It is the Cultural Arts Center located in the middle of Columbus’ downtown area. It use to be the state armory building. As part of the façade there were octagonal brick towers at its four corners. There was a brick wall high enough that a tall person could peer over it. Its landscape hoverd near the Scioto River. As the article stated it was there long before high-rises dotted the Columbus skyline. It was originally built to be a fortress but that didn’t happen.  In 1812 in a place called the Plum Field, where the structure was located, the building became a prison. The men held there helped build the first Statehouse. There were plum trees on the land and were cleared as the prison “expanded”.In the beginning it held a few dozen men but once hold several hundred. As the National Road moved into Columbus around 1831, it was decided that the prison should be moved. Soon the building was demolished and rebuilt in 1861 as it exists today by prisoner labor as the Ohio State Arsenal. The first floor was a gun room. The second floor was open space and “column-free” with a ceiling 20 feet high. It once housed weapons and horses during the American Civil War. Historical artifacts remain. There is an eagle-and-shield from the battleship USS Ohio and a bell from the missile cruiser the USS Columbus. The structure was remodeled by the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department and became the Cultural Arts Center. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 18, 1974. 

I think we will be having air fried beer battered fish and fried tonight. 

Joy

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