April 25, 2023 a thought for today, One written word is worth a thousand pieces of gold. Japanese Proverb

A photo upload for yesterday was “peaceful”. This is an area of trees lining a little used short road. The trees are like a canopy of comfort....something like a tablecloth/bed sheet tent we built over a piece of furniture as a kid. 

I have every thing ready to go for the printing session Thursday. I got the rest of the information to finish the bulletin that I had ready for it from yesterday. I got the envelopes for shut ins printed and the birthday cards and envelopes for this weeks birthdays. 

As I mentioned, I finished the bulletin to the last minute point yesterday and the worked in the kitchen with dishes, sink and frig. When I took a break Sweet Pea and I went out to look for today’s photos. I ‘played’ with the panorama setting on the camera. That was fun.  

Now it’s time to get ready to leave for the food pantry. Lowell picked Bob up for a medical appointment and Sue went out on errands. So it’s quite around here. Sweet Pea isn’t going to like it when I leave....

A second upload for yesterday was “panorama”. I “played” with the camera to get this one because I don’t use the feature on the camera often. I did several pans with the camera held in a vertical position and a few with it in horizontal position. 

We started out so slowly at food pantry today that we thought we were going to have one the lowest days we have had in a long time. But before we closed our doors we had twenty-five clients today. Three of them came at just about closing time. We always like the busy days, it means we have fed more people and it keeps us busy. 

Now it’s back to work here. Not much on the agenda left for today but I have to get the two photo uploads organized. 

My first upload for today is “found”. I “found” this balloon while looking for a different photo title, “numbers”,  a few days ago. Someone lost a balloon to the bare branches of this tree.

The word for today is ignorance. ....there is no darkness but ignorance...William Shakespeare.  There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.   Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science, Charles Darwin.  Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil, Plato.  Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn, Benjamin Franklin. Teach the ignorant as much as you can, Victor Hugo.  He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on, Benjamin Franklin. Ignorance is the cause of fear, Lucius Annaeus Seneca.  Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved, Thucydides.   There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action, Johann von Goethe.  Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star, Confucius.  Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless, Yiddish Proverbs.  Beware the man of a single book, St. Thomas Aquinas. 

The next upload for today is called “ a beautiful sight”. It came from this years Christmas archives. 

I’m a little behind on sharing this article. It was written just before Earth Day. It concerns Columbus meeting climate change. According to this article and to the US Environmental Protection Agency, “Ohio’s climate is changing and is getting warmer”. A couple of more signs of this happening are that floods are more frequent and ice on the Great Lakes is forming later and/or melting sooner. The “hot days” are becoming harmful to public health and affects agriculture. To help with this increasing problem scientists suggest young people “gain jobs in the solar industry”. There are “ action plans” in place to reduce carbon emissions by 2030. It would mean “no net release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, achieving that goal through such measures as planting trees to offset emissions” and adding more “green space”. The article mentioned that increased temperatures in Ohio would reach a point of by the end of this century where  summer weather here would be like that of the present summers in Arkansas and like winter weather in North Carolina. An interesting point in the article is we are experiencing a “decline in sugar maple trees....that tolerate extreme cold and extreme heat....but can’t tolerate the quick freeze/thaw”. Another interesting point is: “Imagine spending 10 percent of your income in one month on energy and gas.” One promising suggestion in the article is that there has been a “shift (in) a lot of things farmers are doing already in water management and land management..... and a decline in corn production, but an increase in wheat” (ie. wheat taking removing more carbon dioxide from the air). The article says that the Ohio EPA is “developing a statewide climate plan.” We are apparently making a great effort to become “carbon neutral”. 

I’m taking the easy way again for dinner. Beer-battered fish and fries for dinner. 

Joy

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