April 23, 2023 a thought for today, Plenty of words when the cause is lost. Italian Proverb

My first upload for yesterday was “something pretty”. I think the blue sky and puffy white clouds are always pretty. 

It looks like it is going to be a dullish weather day. The sun comes out bright, then a few moments later, dims. And the temperature is less than exciting for an early spring day. 

I don’t have much on the agenda. I am starting the letter before I leave for church which is a bit unusual. Usually I have to be at church earlier than I do today. I often have a bible study before the church service. But today we don’t. I do have to be there a little early for a short choir rehearsal. 

My second upload was “chocolate (anything)”. Here are some of the snacks I am staying away from for now while getting the diabetes back under control. 

When I get home there will be a little work in the kitchen then a day to refresh and restart and get ready for a new week......

I get a renewal when I go to church on Sunday, a “cleansing” of the tensions, small or large, of the week before and a boost for the week ahead. Today is one I really needed. There were meaningful words seeming to be  especially for me at this time in my life, in at least one of the hymns, there was a meaning in one of the particular sentences in the sermon, even a meaning in one of the prayer requests. I also always gather strength and positive outlooks from just being with my peers at each service. 

Today’s first upload is “open”. I happed to see this as we were waiting for the service to start. I couldn’t help want to use the open book for this image. 

The word for today is ideas.  Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river. Victor Hugo.  In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I will meet you there. Rumi.  I am aware that a philosopher's ideas are not subject to the judgment of ordinary persons, because it is his endeavour to seek the truth in all things, to the extent permitted to human reason by God. Nicolaus Copernicus.  When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep; it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.  Words are but the signs of ideas. Samuel Johnson.  Ideas govern the world, or throw it into chaos. Auguste Comte.  It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. Aristotle.  Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for. John Henry Newman.  Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward; they may be beaten, but they may start a winning game. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.  It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. Thomas Jefferson.  Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances, Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The second upload for today is “bubbles...tiny bubbles”. This one has been assigned before and I always have trouble finding bubble to take a photo of so that they are clear and readily visible. 

Here’s a story about one of the newer ways to capture energy for our use....and keep us moving into modernization.  I learned from this article that Bill Gates is an owner in a farm for this purpose in Ohio. It is about finding ways to use the land for centuries the old practice of farming combined with the new. The article is about farming ground also used for capturing energy....using the same plot of land together, a “partnership” of sorts. Here in Ohio not far from Columbus and near London is a place being prepared for a test called the Oak Run Solar Project. One of the biggest solar farms proposed in the US. The plan is to test and ultimately prove that farming can be done there among solar panels. It has been a long standing complaint the “utility-scale solar farms remove prime farmland from production”. Agrivoltaics is the term used to explain land used to “produce electricity and to farm at the same time”. The project is still in the planning form. The hopes are that construction could start before the end of the year” and be in practice as soon as the end of 2025. What is visioned is farming between rows of solar panels. There will be 2,000 acres with farming would also be suitable inside and outside a fence around the project. According to the article ‘agrivoltaics’ has been done on smaller scales around the world. The one near us would be the largest so far, a “super heavyweight class”. There are research considerations in the project like risks and costs. Part of the plan is a site to teach farmers how to farm around the solar panels with hopes of including the Ohio State University, the Tolles Career and Tech Center close to Plain City to establish a program for the training. With these teaching possibilities becoming a “regional hub for training”. Another of the concerns of some people are the affect on the “beauty” of the countryside, property values, drainage issues and truck traffic as well as liability and insurance”. According to the article many farms have doubts that this could work. 

It’s take out night ..... don’t know yet what we will be ordering....subway or taco bell....or ...

Joy

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