March 26, 2023 a thought for today, One man is not bad because another is good. Danish Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “sunset”. I shot this one a while back when sunset was in full view with a sky full of clouds too.

How often in a sermon has something been described with such knowledge that you can “feel” it, “experience” it in your mind.....for instance a mind’s image of a two-mile walk from this place to that place in a time when walking was the main source of transportation.....of a grave sight that is down stone steps in a “cave” like structure so close in space that a medium sized person bumps their head....and that Jesus resurrected a man in that kind of space....how often is it spoken so meaningfully in describing a short scripture that Jesus wept, mentioned so that you could feel him weep....all of these because of the depth of the feeling passed on by the person giving the message makes that life time have more sense and leading to a better understanding of spiritual life in this time. That is my today’s church experience. I hope there are more like it. She speaks it as though she has researched the facts of what she is saying so that she knows what she says is true and she is the type of gentle, real spirt that she wouldn’t say it if she didn’t know it as fact in her heart. How lucky we are for her to bring us a message of peace and real love.

My second upload yesterday was “a motel”. This closest one to my house was not far from our grocery curb side pick up so that was an easy capture for the photo of the day. 

We are going through the processes of getting a new washing machine.....picking one, preparing the path to getting it in place when it comes, ordering it and arranging a delivery time. 

This is going to be my usual kind of Sunday....a day to reflect and refresh for the coming week. I do have one thing to do for the church first....upload the taped service since the streaming is not working. The first portion (there are three on this memory card) is uploading as I write. 

The first upload for today was titled “something timeless”. I thing faith is timeless. This is a symbol of that timelessness.  

The word today is excellence.  It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible, Aristotle.  Let each become all that he was created capable of being, Thomas Carlyle. Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued, Johann von Goethe.  Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world, George Eliot. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit, Aristotle. One shining quality lends a luster to another, or hides some glaring defect, William Hazlitt. With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it, Aristotle. Excellence is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice. We do not act rightly because we are excellent in fact we achieve excellence by acting rightly, Plato. In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The good of man is a working of the soul in the way of excellence in a complete life,  Aristotle. 

The next upload for today is “rain and fog”. I don’t know that it was raining when I shot this. It was misty and may have rained a little heavier just before the shoot.

I thought this might be an interesting article about an exhibit at COSI. There is “Memory Machine” at COSI that is a collection of recordings of a one man’s “sounds from his world travels”. He wanted to share the sounds he heard in his travels, something different from what most others bring back, photos and movies, from their travels. He said that whenever he “felt a special pace or historical landmark” he would record the sounds in area. Some of his visits were Switzerland, Germany and France. The “Memory Machine” at COSI is “a motion-activated sound sculpture with micro controllers, an amplifier and speakers. The machine is on the exhibit through November at COSI”. The article calls this sculpture and its sounds “electronic art”. The author of this particular unique art, a former instructor at Columbus College of Art and Design, says that he recorded and shares “claps of thunder in the Swiss Alps to the bustling crowds around the Eiffel Tower”. He says the “Memory Machine” allows the mimicking of the human experience.  One of the scenes he recorded and shares are the sounds of a street scene in Dresden, a “gallery hop-like evening”. It was more than seeing the people at such an event it was/is the sounds of that experience. He explains that another offer of this experience is an offer to the “visually impaired”. He has recorded sounds around Ohio and Canada and the falling waters at Niagara. The actual “Memory Machine” itself is made of reclaimed materials. He hopes the experience will encourage people to “open their ears and ..minds” to appreciate sounds around them and to,  perhaps, offer sounds of other cultures. 

Dinner will be take-out from somewhere today.....maybe Ding Ho

Joy

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