May 5, 2023 a thought for today, The door of success is marked "push" and "pull." Jewish Proverb

The first upload for yesterday was “I feel....”. Think about it, how would you create and share an image that shows how you feel?” I chose a relaxed, feet up kind of relaxed feel.

After some extensive testing the doctor has told Bob to take the rest of the week off from work. So he is resting. 

I don’t have a lot on the agenda. Bob and I went out on an errand for him, made a couple of stops. Along the way I used a couple of side street detours to get my photos of the day. As for the rest of the day I don’t have a long agenda. I got the sink, frig and dish washer out of the way last night. 

My second upload for yesterday was “your choice” . Mine was this shot I captured a while back on one of my photo excursions. The figure in the window grabbed my attention. 

The weather today is more like the spring days we have been waiting for. It is supposed to get close to seventy degrees today. There are lawn mower sounds all over the place. Those aren’t my favorite sounds of the season.....wind chimes are my favorite sounds and for some reason the sounds of train horns in the distance. 

Today first shot is another I saw as we were on the errand this morning. The assignment was titled “I saw...”.  The person on a wheel chair was dangerously close to on coming traffic after crossing the street. 

The word is light. The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. Charles Dickens. Let nothing come between you and the light. Henry David Thoreau. Moonlight is sculpture: sunlight is painting. Nathaniel Hawthorne. Light is the symbol of truth, James Russell Lowell.  The light of God is in you. Let your light shine, Eleazar.  Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day, James A. Garfield. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within, Ralph Waldo Emerson.  Light is the shadow of God, Thomas Browne. Use the light to return to clarity, Laozi.  Light tomorrow with today! Elizabeth Barrett Browning.  The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. Walt Whitman.   To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark. Victor Hugo. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon. John Milton.  How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world, William Shakespeare. 

The second upload was “my choice”. Sweet Pea needs a grooming as this shows how long and uneven her coat is.

This is another subject that the PBS Columbus Neighborhood show covered. The story is a bit about the beginning of the YMCA in Columbus and how it is a “fabric of the communities”. This Christian association was founded in Victorian London. In 1855 a man named Henry Beebe Carrington, a Civil War veteran, brought together the first young men who became the first YMCA in Columbus. It spread and was a blessing to factory workers. It offered spiritual, intellectual and physical growth to those it touched. It made available a place to stay and place to eat, and a place to learn. Early on, before there was an actual facility, there were “branches of sorts” at the Ohio State University and the Union Station. In 1893 the first YMCA building opened on third Street in downtown Columbus. Over the years it “evolved” from a “health club” and offered so many other things such as discussion groups and the library located in the building.  There was an interest in business and trades that the YMCA started and now “still exists today as Franklin University.” The YMCA grew and spread to the South Side. Land was purchased so that there could be camping activities. During World War I the “Y” helped serve soldiers. The Great Depression also found the YMCA helping with rooms and meals. When the “Y” was faced with the possibility of closing, staff took pay cuts to keep it open. In the fifties attention was geared toward leisure-time activities for returning veterans.  There were camping and social events. Soon coming into the “early Sixties” and due to its “diversity and inclusiveness” intentions new facilities opened in suburbs. Eventually women and girls could become members. By the seventies aerobics, racquetball, jogging/walking were all worked into the YMCA activities. Moving into the eighties, child care was offered. Currently there has been some “renovating old facilities” while still “address(ing) the ever-changing needs of the growing communities it serves....residential services, programs for persons with disabilities and older adults, camp, teen programs and many others”. 

Today is one of those days that I had three photos a day assignments. This one was called “windows”. This image is the front of an elementary school in my neighborhood. It was one of the photos I captured on our way home from the errands.

Pizza!!

Joy

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