February 24, 202 a thought for today, Jealousy is a pain that seeks what caused it. German Proverb

Dorothy and I worked on putting the newsletter together this morning. Patti joined us for a while. We had some “giving-kinds of envelopes” to put in the newsletter. I had folded the newsletters as they came off the copier yesterday so today that required one unfold and re-fold to insert the envelopes. That gave us some time to talk and “bond” as we were working, and, for Dorothy and me, reminiscing about life in our earlier days like telephone party lines, and some like-happenings in the raising of our kids as they grew in the “good old days”.

One of my uploads for yesterday was titled “your street”. This is one view of my street in the winter time....yesterday.

Now that the newsletter is out of the way for this month I have to concentrate on working on the annual report. I have a little less than three weeks to get it edited and put together. 

On the way home I had one of those “every-outing adventures”....photo possible sightings. Oh, that reminds me....on such an excursion yesterday on my way home I found and photographed one of the most wind torn and  ragged US flags I have ever seen. 

Sue is working on a project she wants to give the twins and needed some clip art that she needs to use for some of her sketching. She is slower on the computer than I am, so she and I spent some time finding and printing the ones she wants.

The second upload for yesterday was “this makes life easier”. This is my cell phone. Now days I don’t know what I would do without it. Now and then we have clients at our food pantry who don’t speak English. Recently we have found the language translator app available on the phone. It works wonders. Some of our people have pictures of their license with photo, also a great help.  Not to mention when needed in an emergency and away from any other phone in a hurry. (And for reading a library book when waiting and waiting somewhere).

Yesterday the temperature was seventy degrees, today it is thirty-seven degrees. I have heard some people saying some trees are beginning to show leaves and I noticed that my neighbor’s tulips are beginning to show their leaves. 

I am going to take a break for a bit.....my plants are showing me that they need watered badly.... I’ll be back at the computer in a minute.... 

One of todays uploads is “on the line”. I was going to try to use clothes on a clothes line but couldn’t find handy in the neighborhood. So I looked for things on white lines of highway line markers. 

The word today is control.  While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us, Benjamin Franklin.  He who conquers himself is the mightiest warrior, Confucius. Give me beauty in the inward soul; may the outward and the inward man be at one, Socrates.  Let every man be master of his time, William Shakespeare.  In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu. Control thy passions lest they take vengence on thee. Epictetus. Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience. Blaise Pascal. Circumstances are beyond human control, but our conduct is in our own power. Benjamin Disraeli. Grammar, which knows how to control even kings. Moliere.  Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance, of a want of control over one's emotions, and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason. Saint Basil.  Method is more important than strength, when you wish to control your enemies. By dropping golden beads near a snake, a crow once managed To have a passer-by kill the snake for the beads. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control,  Epictetus.  Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be,  Thomas à Kempis.   

The second upload today is “old”. I could have shown my own hand with the wrinkles and liver spots of time but I pulled this old, old, 1819, book of World War I photos off the bookshelf.

This bit of history is about the formation of the library here in Columbus. This one was mentioned in the PBS show I watch on Thursdays  Broad and High/Columbus Neighborhoods/ Curious CBS. Early in the life of Columbus after 1812, people wanted a public library and ‘struggled to establish’ one. Finally in about 1835 a “Columbus Reading Room” was formed. Then in 1853 the Columbus Athenium grew. Neither lasted.  In its beginning is was located on the first floor of City Hall and offered 1,500 books. In 1872 a man named John Janney suggested an ordinance that funds be ‘allocated’ for a library. “The Columbus Public Library and Reading Room was opened on March 4, 1873". In 1906 it was moved to a building across from the State House. Later funds were donated by Andrew Carnegie for a library. After some planning the money was donated to include a main building. Stipulations were made for not more than one hundred and fifty-thousand-dollars on the main building.  Property at 96 S. Grant Avenue was purchased. In 1928 money was raised to ‘fund’ four branches. They were Clintonville, Linden, Parsons and Hilltop. Later twenty-two more branches were added between 1935 and 1980. 

PIZZA!!!

Joy

                    another case of “dropped off” or maybe “coming back for”