March 28, 2023 a thought for today, Love's plant must be watered with tears, and tended with care. Danish Proverb

My first upload yesterday was titled “an old home”. I drove around with Sweet Pea looking for something I had in mind . I went to an old familiar neighborhood that has become heartbreakingly run down . I thought about using the photo I took there but I changed my mind and decided to us a house that I would call “an old home” rather than an old house. 

I didn’t sleep well and am not focusing this morning so it looks like it is going to be “one of those days”. I have the bulletin ready for the last bit of information, I had one delete to make so that caused a bit of reformatting. I’ll get the rest sometime today. 

Well the “one of those days” carried through to when I got to the church. Somehow I pushed a button at the wrong time and couldn’t get the car to turn off. One of the problems was that I didn’t have the car in park. I finally got it turned off with Tom’s support. 

My second upload for yesterday was “entrance”. This is the main entrance to my home. There is a lot to see, kind of.

We had a large number of families again today at pantry and another one at the very last minute. I have one of our new clients...a Russian that used his cell phone’s language app to converse. That’s a learning experience. I like the ease of communicating with our clients who may need the help that way. What a wonderful world. 

Bob is supposed to get the information from his blood tests today. I hope it is something easy to take care of. 

I am getting a new washer tomorrow. Bob “cleaned” a little in the basement (it needs a lot rather than a little) but it will have to do for tomorrow. I have to mover some other things at the top of the steps and behind the basement door before tomorrow too.  I think Bob will help when he gets home from the doctor and after dinner. 

The first upload for today is “a modern building”. I know of a couple near my home that are truly modern. There is one, and I took photos of it today, that is so modern that it stands out from those around it. It is located in another of the “run down” areas nearby. I don’t understand what the notion was for someone to build it so different than all the others around it. The one I chose is our new neighborhood library. It is ultra modern inside and out. 

The word today is expect.  It is in vain to expect our prayers to be heard, if we do not strive as well as pray, Aesop.  We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, Henry David Thoreau. The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools, Confucius.  The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us, Henry David Thoreau.  To wish was to  hope, and to hope was to expect, Jane Austen.  Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. Henry David Thoreau.  Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish. Ovid.  He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon. If you cannot mould yourself entirely as you would wish, how can you expect other people to be entirely to your liking? Thomas a Kempis.  Life is so constructed that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation. Charlotte Bronte. 

The last upload for today is “dark”. This one was taken a while back when I would go out at night now and then, I don’t do that anymore....early bedtimes. This was taken at a busy intersection in downtown Columbus. 

We experienced a bit of world history right here in Columbus’s early days in the form of Jinny Lind, a highly regarded singers of the 19th century. She was called the Swedish Nightingale. The article began with the “men and women who settled the Ohio Country in the wake of the American Revolution were a crude and unkempt lot”. They “settled this land and made it their own”. The article went on to say that was a generalization and that many of the people were literate and cultured. As with most peoples entertainment is important in life. The article said that in the earliest days of the city amusement might have been “bear baiting, ax throwing and ....imbibing”. As the years went by people wanted a more cultured city. In 1821 “an association of vocalists calling itself the Handel Society” formed. Traveling “artistes” came to the city with “circuses, carnivals and balloon ascensions”. The biggest event came as a brief visit from a lady named Jenny Lind. She was a professional musician from the age of 8. She was friends with such people as Hans Christian Andersen. She preformed in a “triumphant tour” in Great Britain in 1849. She began the end of her career in “public performances”. To help her schedule these performances she met P.T. Barnum. He has promoted all kinds of attractions “from trained elephants to Tom Thumb”. In 1849 he produced an American tour for Jenny Lind. She wanted to make money for charitable purposes. She made a 150-city tour at $1,000 per place. It was extremely successful. She split with Barnum and “negotiated appear4ances on her own”. One of those was on November 4, 1851 in Columbus. The concert was held in Odeon Hall. The tickets were limited in number and sold for $2-$4. According to an Ohio State Journal news piece on that date, “It was the most brilliant, best dressed .....and best-looking house we have ever seen in Columbus. … We are informed that about 1,000 persons, a large number of whom were females, occupied the streets and sidewalks in the vicinity of the hall.” 

I think we are having salmon in the air fryer for dinner. 

Joy

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