March 8, 2023 a thought for today, When there is trust, no proof is necessary. Chinese Proverb

The first upload for the day March 7, 2023 was “in the dark”. Bare tree branches with a full moon in the background. 

I finished the annual report this morning. I am going to print it tomorrow while I am at the church to print the bulletin so that I have time to make any formatting adjustments that need to be made. 

I spent most of the morning on the annual report so before starting on another project Sweet Pea and I took a short ride to “clear my head” and drop by the park so she could catch up and exciting smells in the air as we sat with the windows open. I can’t walk as far as she would like to go so we just sit for a while. The weather isn’t very warm so the windows weren’t open for more that five minutes or so. 

My second upload for yesterday was “wheel”. I took photos of several kinds of wheels and chose this one for the unique “teeth” and the red handle.

I was noticing as I was coming home that there are some hyacinths coming up and some trees beginning to show leaf buds. I hope the weather doesn’t become more severe, bad enough to kill what has started to come to life and to bloom. I have heard of some talk that because the winter has been on the mild side we may be in store for a “rougher” spring. 

An upload for today is titled “supplies”. This is a container full of my “supplies” for various arts, crafts and maintenance. The colors and shapes are strong ‘pulls’ for sight attention. 

The word for today is different. I can't go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then. Lewis Carroll.  Good habits formed at youth make all the difference. Aristotle.  I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson.  The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. Charles Dickens.  There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. Francis Bacon.  Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps; for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are, and what they ought to be. William Hazlitt.  Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise. Samuel Johnson.  Little by little he came to recognize the difference between the spirits that agitated him, one from the enemy and one from God. Saint Ignatius. There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount. Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins. Thomas Fuller.  Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. Aristotle.  

The second upload for today is called “clock”. I felt the need (not of speed) but for a partial shape of something so common. 

Here’s a little about Christmas in Columbus in 1922. According to the article Christmas of 1922 was on the “warm”, 51 degrees,  side considering it was winter time.  In that year Columbus was a “bustling town”. We were a small city at the beginning of the 20th century and was sometimes called “America’s Hometown”, it was also an industrial and manufacturing town. There was a part of town called “Steelton” due to the factories and four steel mills. The President of the United States was from Ohio and in office in that time, Warren Harding. Along with people celebrating Christmas by gifts, food and visits there was also people in need as there are today. One of the efforts to help was made with a basket given by Santa on December 24 at 10:00 to 2,351 families. At noon 175 families were given a dinner provided by the Salvation Army. A free Christmas tree was given to children. The Elk club gave out 660 baskets filled with ham, potatoes, flour, butter, coffee, sugar, bread, canned vegetable and two pounds of candy to families at their homes. Other gifts given out in the days leading to Christmas were of food and clothing given by churches and other groups. There were all kinds of holiday entertainment around town during the season. For those who “went out” to dine, meals were served from $1.50 to $2.00 a plate. Imagine the time of the celebrations in this article when there were few electric lights, there were crank handle phones, no television, digital photography or cell phones. Radio “technology” was fragile and expensive. In the 1920s people could spend $30 to have a radio receiver in their living room and listen to the world”. In 1922 there were  local radio stations in Columbus, one was at Ohio State called WOSU, it is still going strong. So, for the Christmas of 1922 the people could hear some of the sounds of the season in their homes. 

I think we will have creamed beef on toast for dinner. 

Joy

                                 Exposure to natural elements