April 13, 2023 a thought for today, Those that will not hear must be made to feel. German Proverb

An upload for yesterday was “a number”. I don’t see to many fancy number although there are all kinds of such subjects. I picked this one due to the added textures and color tones. 

It’s printing day and it’s done. Patti was there again today but there were no deliveries so it was just the two of us for a little while and then Paul got there. I use to like to walk through the sanctuary when the lights have not been turned on yet. It felt good to be just me and Him. But for the last two or three weeks Paul has been working in there when I go through to drop off the bulletins. So it’s not the same. 

Most of the rest of the day will be multitasking with the laundry at the head of the list.

Another upload for yesterday was “selective color”. I picked one of the almost standard orange colors we see so much on our landscapes. 

On the way home, as is custom now, I was on the lookout for photo material. As it turns out, I think both photos today will be from right here at home. 

We are having another sunny day. It feels like spring has made the first few leads into the city. But we’re not quite there. It will be nice up too about Monday then the temperature will drop into the fifties again preceded by heavy thunder storms on Sunday. It’s a subtle hint not to move the house plants out just yet. 

The first upload I did for today was called “a pattern”. I was thinking of using one of the many patterns of light and shadows or patterns in the clouds but for this one and for todays upload I picked this pattern on my sister’s easy chair. 

The word today is ground.  In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. Lao Tzu.  I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen. Saint Teresa of Avila.  There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.  The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. Thomas Carlyle.  Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right. John Milton.  Now I see that going out into the testing ground of men it is the tongue and not the deed that wins the day. Sophocles.  True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long. Marcus Tullius Cicero.  The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit. Aristotle. 

My second upload for today was “eye (s)”. Sweet Pea was handy for this shot. I have another in my
archives of a horses face that I caught a while back when I visited the stable but decided to use this more current one. 

Here’s a bit of something a touch unusual, finding pieces of ancient history when preparing to build something new. According to the article I came across there is a new bridge project over Raccoon Creek on Cherry Valley Road that is on a 2,000 year old site. When work began on the bridge the work came to an “abrupt” closure on in October. A crew of archaeologists uncovered a “wealth” of 2,000 year old  Native American artifacts. Among the findings were pottery, oven fragments and stone tools as well as flint minded east of Newark. The semi-transparent flint tools are being called “absolutely beautiful” by one of the observers. One of the crew has “determined” that a Hopewell family probably lived on the site in what may have been the front yard of the home at what is now Reddington Road and Thornwood Drive. The construction site is to include the building of a new roadway, a new bridge and a roundabout.  A 190-year-old bridge at the site was closed on October 5. In preparing for the new construction an archaeological survey was required by the National Historic Preservation Act and was performed. “Starting in early 2018, a team of archaeologists were hired to do the survey”. The survey determined that there were “historic and/or cultural structures that otherwise would be affected by regulations guiding projects involving federal funding. In this case, it did”. The old bridge was built in 1833. Traffic has become much heavier and caused a lot of ware and tear. There was talk of closing the bridge ten year ago when archaeologists found artifacts but there was no further investigation at the time. Later it became a “multi-step operation”.  As the “dig” continued , an instrument called a magnetic gradiometer was used. It measured the “fluctuations in the Earth’s magnetic field, which indicate the presence of subsurface structures, such as mineral deposits or archaeological sites (deposits)”. The Ohio Department of Transportation and the Licking County historical societies as well as Native American groups became involved. Soil samples were scientifically examined to discover past human activity. As the excavations went on “23 unique features were identified and interpreted as cultural remnants of the native inhabitants”. 

I can’t make up my mind yet whether is will be roast beef in the air fryer or seasoned salmon in the air fryer for dinner. 

Joy

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