March 16, 2023 a thought for today, A book holds a house of gold. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “a fleeting moment”. Sitting at a stop light doesn’t always feel like “fleeting moment” it is actually a moment in time. 

Things went really well  at church with the printing. I got the bulletin, the annual report, and a piece for Connie all printed and placed appropriately. Patti came in just before I was finished so we had a chance to chat a little. 

I hadn’t had any breakfast and it was almost 10:30 so I stopped at McDonalds for a brunch. And took a few photos on the way home.

The second up load for yesterday was “bird (perched). This bush seems to be a meeting place. While looking out the window, I have seen up to a dozen birds flying in mass and landing to perch on this bush.

When I got back home, I started the laundry. About ten minutes after I got back upstairs from starting the laundry there was a very suspicious sound coming from the basement. Upon investigation I found that the washer was not working as it should so I had a washer full of wet clothes. I got as much water out of the washer and loaded the wet clothes in two trash bags. I called Sue home from her errands to come home and help me get it all to the Laundromat. So we spent about three hours this afternoon there. Now I am going to have to shop for a washer. This one is somewhere over twenty years old so I imagine it would be cheaper to buy a new one than to have this one fixed. There goes the money I have been saving for a new computer.

The “incident (washer breakdown)” put a squash on all my “personal” computer tasks for the day. My photo a day images will have to be a day late for a change. 

Yesterday was another of those days when I had a third photo of the day upload. This one was titled “bread or pasta”. I was making homemade egg noodles and cooking them in brown gravy when I captured the shot. 

That quick half a sandwich of this morning was all I had to eaten so I was hungry when we got home from the Laundromat. I grabbed a half of a peanut butter sandwich and 15 Cheezits. I have found that if I am careful about how many of the Cheezits that I eat I can better control the carbs than when I was eating them by the hand full a couple of times a day. 

I was hoping to get a start on the church newsletter so I could get ahead of a rush to get it all done but that’s not going to happen today. 

The first up load for today was “a treasure you found”. I don’t know how much of a treasure this is but I found it as I was rummaging through some old things in the basement. I’m I would not have been excited to use this to smooth the wrinkled and a bushel basket of laundry to be ironed. 

The word for today is effort.  We aim above the mark to hit the mark, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble, Augustus William Hare.  To do two things at once is to do neither, Publilius Syrus.  Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character. Heraclitus.   Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus.  Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved. Ralph Waldo Emerson.   Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules, Thomas Carlyle.  To rank the effort above the prize may be called love, Confucius.   I am like the sick sheep that strays from the rest of the flock. Unless the Good Shepherd takes me on His shoulders and carries me back to His fold, my steps will falter, and in the very effort of rising, my feet will give way. St. Jerome.  What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party. Henry David Thoreau.  The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence. Ralph Waldo Emerson.   If you can walk, you can run, Publilius Syrus.  

The next upload for today was “animal (pet)”. I have been using a lot of photos of Sweet Pea and decided to use this one of Sugar. She is not longer with us but is a sweet memory. 

Here’s another story about one of the malls mentioned earlier that is full of memory and is to be demolished, in truth, due to lack of interest and care, it is has become and eye sore and probably dangerous. This one is closer to home, it is Westland Mall. There are huge holes in the parking lots. In the summer time large noise bands set there. They can be heard three miles away. According to the article there are 599 “blighted and vacant structures throughout Ohio”....Westland is one of them.  It went on to say that “by ridding our state of eyesores that are hindering development and impacting property values, we can revitalize our communities and attract new investments”. I prefer to see “the old” be redeveloped and used once again for useful purposes but this is a second option, and the most often used I think. Westland opened in the 1960s. In the beginning was an “open mall”. Later in 1980 is was enclosed. I noticed as the article was written it included some other people’s memories of this particular mall. One lady said she remembered her mom taking her to Lazarus at the mall first to visit the restaurant on the upper floor. She remembered getting her ears pierced her and later when she was a teen, “loitered” all day. She noted the leather store that was in the mall and how she got a “green suede jacket”. The article ended with much my same wishes “hope the property will be redeveloped so generations to come can make new memories. Westland Mall is scheduled to be demolished this spring or summer.”

We are having left overs for dinner tonight.

Joy

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