May 23, 2023 a thought for today, The bell is loud because it is empty. Polish Proverb

My first photo upload for yesterday was in the “my choice” variety. This one was taken when I was more able to go to the zoo on a regular basis in search of my photo ideas. 

I got the information that I needed for the bulletin in an email this morning so I was able to get it completed. I had the back side of the tri-fold done yesterday. Now I am just waiting for the information for the final page of the newsletter. This one is the one I wait for every month. Sometimes it is an easy fit for the section I have generated for it. Other times it takes some time to make the adjustments that may be needed. I get anxious about the time I have to get it finished. 

I am finishing up some chores that need to be done today so that I can be ready to go to church for food pantry in an hour. 

My second upload for yesterday was “on Mondays I....”. I begin the day, after my virtual visits, by working church projects. On Monday is mainly the weekly bulletin along with any inserts that need to be included that week.

I have finally heard my wind chimes. That is one of the signs that tells me it is truly spring/summer. I think the yard work tools make an earlier appearance than the chimes each year. Maybe....the birds and crocus flowers are the first harbingers of spring....then early yard care sounds.

.....I am back from food pantry. We had one of the biggest days we have had in several months. I think we had thirty-three families....one with seven children. We had one “gentleman” who was deliberately being disruptive. I felt I needed to be a bit blunt in talking to him. He was noticeably and rather forcibly annoying people. 

Now it is time to begin to think about fixing dinner. 

My first upload for today came from my archives. The title for the “assignment” is “I once....”. in this case I am showing that I was once able to bend and explore as this young lady is doing in this image. 

The word today is open.  Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open slowly, by little and little, into a full and clear light.  Isaac Newton. You cannot open a book without learning something. Confucius.  If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. Rumi.  No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief. John Calvin. One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. Niccolo Machiavelli.  Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! Leonardo da Vinci.  Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. Leo Buscaglia.  All the windows of my heart I open to the day. John Greenleaf Whittier.  Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Henry David Thoreau.  Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi.  When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in, Genevieve.

My second upload today is “my choice”. This is one of the sunflowers that was in my backyard a few

years ago. There has been some changes to structures in the yard since then so I no longer have this sunflowers so I enjoy, instead, this capture of a moment in time.

This is an interesting concept..... “Downtown Columbus as a Solar City”. We have the solar farm being generated in Madison County now there is talk of a solar “farm” right here in the city. The article mentioned that there is logic in such solar arrays in the deserts, why not in cities? How about using parking lots? The article went on mentioning using “solar panels as canopies over these parking lots and atop buildings”. Apparently the Cincinnati Zoo already has such a panel in their parking lots....this also allows parking in the shade. Again in the article, Columbus State Community College is talking about “re-developing” some of their parking lots. Maybe start using the idea there? There are problems in building on this plan for the city. “Who would undertake such a project?”. Apparently the Columbus Division of Power has “already committed to at least two new solar arrays near the Jackson Pike and Parsons Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plants”. These two would provide “clean energy to power nearly 7,500 homes”.  In expanding this idea the article suggests “not confined to building strictly on municipal land. Many of the parking lots are private enterprises, and so the city might not be able to simply build over these spaces”.... (there is a) possibly leading to a “public-private partnership to generate solar power for the city.”  In the article it was suggested that as to keeping the city “attractive” these panels could be designed as “art objects”....perhaps like “crocheted canopies created by artists in Cartaya, Spain”. Thoughts may look to the art like objects we enjoyed in the Short North Arches. The article ended- “Columbus would become a self-sufficient generator of its own energy.”  

I think I am going to make chili for dinner tonight. 

Joy

                                                better days....gone forever?