March 20, 2023 a thought for today, He who knows his heart mistrusts his eyes. Chinese Proverb

One upload for yesterday was “a slice”. What better slice than that of a pizza. 

This has been a full day of some stress for me. I had some phone calls to try to make appointments for Bob. He is having a health issue that needs attended to. I think I made a good start in that direction. He has an appointment for tomorrow. One of the phone calls I made couldn’t help for over two months. 

Another upload for yesterday was “car”. I decided to get the back side of the two cars in the driveway. 

I got a good start on both the bulletin and the newsletter. I have food pantry for the next two days but I think with a little luck I can get both of them done before Thursday. 

When looking out the window I see a bit of spring seeming to be  making its way into our city although it is still a bit “chilly” to put it mildly, outside. 

An upload for today is “something useful”. This is one of the rollators in our house. It  comes in handy when the legs have had the last they can take for the day. 

The word for today is enough. Life, if well lived, is long enough, Lucius Annaeus Senec.  A word to the wise is enough. Plautus.  It is not enough to have great qualities; We should also have the management of them, Francois de la Rochefoucauld. No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar, Abraham Lincoln. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. Archimedes.  Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough. Saint Patrick.  Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. Hans Christian Andersen. We build too many walls and not enough bridges. Isaac Newton. Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough. Emily Dickinson.  It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? Henry David Thoreau.  A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows. Francis of Assisi.  In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't. Blaise Pascal.  How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. Benjamin Franklin.  The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly. This is enough, John Adams.  If you desire faith, then you have faith enough. Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  

A second upload for today is “fence”. I decided to use this one of the double fences between my house and my neighbor’s house. One is for someone’s privacy the other for common respect of another’s space. 

This is supposed to be an article about some “legal amusements” in Columbus. Here are some examples. In 1875 Corbin’s saloon in Westerville was “wrecked by an explosion of gunpowder”. The owner had seven leading citizens and “temperance” people arrested for “destruction of property”. After a court appearance and a Grand Jury the defendants were discharged. But on another arrest on a peace warrant for the same incident the judge stated “no guilty” with a judgement against Corbin for costs. During the trial one of the attorneys for the prosecution  “intimated pretty strongly by his questions that one of the defendants, a pronounced temperance man, would himself occasionally take a drink”. With that he made a charge in the “form of this interrogatory.... ‘Now. Mr. ________, don’t you think that you and I can drink more whisky in a given time than any other two men in the state?” The court, other counsel and audience were “appalled”. The gentleman “adjusting his spectacles to a proper focus, slowly and deliberately replied to his accuser, “I don’t know but that is so, and I wouldn’t have to drink any either.” On another occasion a man was on trial for stealing hogs. He said that he bought the hogs “of a stranger” then he gave his note for the purchase price. Then he left the stand, his counsel had not asked him certain questions and called him back. He asked when was it your gave the note, before or after you “stole the hogs”? The defendant answered ‘It was before’. Everyone laughed and a verdict “guilty as charged” was announced. On another occasion a native of Ireland wanted to become a citizen of the US. Before a judge swore him in he was asked whether he had ever read the Constitution. The man said he had not and that he could not read. So the judge told him that he “had better first inform himself as to what the Constitution was”. On the lunch break a his counsel took the Irish man to the back yard and read the Constitution to him. Back in court the counsel said to the judge that he had read the Constitution to his friend and “I renew my motion that the requisite oath to support the Constitution of the United States be now administered to him, and that he be admitted to citizenship.” The judge granted the motion.

This is another of those days for a third upload. This one was titled “ in the style of Piet Mondrain” and is my attempt at one of his earlier styles, Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. His artistic vocabulary was reduced to simple geometric elements.

I think it is going to be hamburgers for dinner tonight. 

Joy

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